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From the archive – Churchill’s secret station
19 August 2021 | 4 min read
Plans for Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s hidden underground shelter from the Blitz are some of the most intriguing in our…
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From the archive
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Why the end of the gauge war didn’t standardise Britain’s railway
20 May 2021 | 7 min read
The battle to establish a standard gauge between the rails across Britain ended 129 years ago. So why do we…
The Box Tunnel – Brunel builds the impossible
8 April 2021 | 2 min read
The Architecture the Railways Built – Royal Albert Bridge
26 January 2021 | 3 min read
From the archive: Brunel and Stephenson’s Christmas in Cairo
24 December 2020 | 5 min read
Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday – a nursing pioneer’s links with Brunel
12 May 2020 | 4 min read