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Meet Lilly and Sammie, two timetable analysts at Network Rail who work in the team creating the hundreds of train timetables that help keep Britain moving. What does a typical...

We’re marking International Women in Engineering Day on Monday 23 June by sharing the inspirational story of a mother-daughter engineering duo. Elizabeth and Katie are two generations of engineers making...

We’re using drones to deter people from going on the tracks – and prevent one of the biggest causes of delays to your journeys. Deterring trespass Trespassing is illegal and...

We’re rolling out a remote temperature monitoring system that’ll help us track rail temperatures more accurately, precisely and frequently in the summer. This is turn helps us place more targeted...

A new platform zero in West Yorkshire has allowed us to triple the number of daily services running between Bradford and London. That’s an extra 1.9 million train seats a...

You may be familiar with engineering works like track renewals, signalling upgrades and electrification. But less visible work – like drainage – also plays a vital part in keeping the...

Network Rail is proud to share one of the railway’s most historically important artefacts with the world. The rediscovery in 2018 of a notebook written by ‘father of the railways’ George Stephenson enabled the public...

The Network Rail archive is the custodian of a vast collection of historic documents and plans relating to today’s railway infrastructure. It represents the development of the most significant structures, engineers and...