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Better design across our railway

Aug 8, 2019

There’s a lot more to building and developing Britain’s railway buildings and infrastructure than engineering. An expert panel and a...

Acton Grange upgrade: in numbers

Aug 6, 2019

We’ve just reopened the railway at Acton Grange junction near Warrington after a major 16-day upgrade. Trains are running through...

Film: discover the Network Rail archive

Aug 6, 2019

A deed signed by Sir Christopher Wren, a letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the earliest plans for modern rail travel. The millions of historic and legal documents held by Network Rail are “crucial to...

Growing appetite for investment in Britain’s railway

Aug 5, 2019

Appetite among private companies to invest in our railway is growing as Network Rail strives to become easier to work with. An event hosted by Network Rail in July that aimed to attract investment from...

Week on the Network 05.08.19

Aug 5, 2019

Network Rail works hard to improve the railway each week. We cater for 4.8m rail journeys every single day, while simultaneously delivering an ambitious, multi-billion pound Railway Upgrade Plan. We're renewing and upgrading 20,000 miles of track,...

From the archive: our oldest items

Aug 1, 2019

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 innovation on the railway from...

Read the George Stephenson notebook online

Aug 1, 2019

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

Happy birthday Glasgow Central: behind the scenes

Aug 1, 2019

Scotland’s busiest railway station opened on this day 140 years ago! It’s one of our most striking railway buildings and this year starred in the BBC documentary Inside Central Station, which follows station staff as...

Flooding and landslips explained

Jul 31, 2019

Landslips can follow heavy rain - like in the North West of England today. Flooding has caused one of these incidents in Dent in Cumbria, affecting trains between Carlisle and Leeds. What is a landslip?...

Art and the railway – Illuminated River

Jul 30, 2019

Bridges over the River Thames have joined a raft of art projects supported by Network Rail across Britain. Illuminated River - an ambitious new art installation for London - has transformed four bridges in the...
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