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Reopening Horton quarry rail link after 60 years
Published 15 July 2025
| Average read time 4 min read

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Smart sensors, fewer delays: tackling heat on the tracks
13 June 2025 | 4 min read
We’re rolling out a remote temperature monitoring system that’ll help us track rail temperatures more accurately, precisely and frequently in…

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Bringing more trains to West Yorkshire
12 June 2025 | 4 min read
A new platform zero in West Yorkshire means triple the number of daily services running between Bradford and London. That’s…

Why drainage is essential to our planned engineering works
11 June 2025 | 3 min read

Read the George Stephenson notebook online
9 June 2025 | 3 min read

From the archive: WWII and the railway
6 June 2025 | 3 min read

The Railway at War – 1939-1945
6 June 2025 | 5 min read