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Bringing more trains to West Yorkshire

Published 12 June 2025 | Average read time 4 min read
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From the archive
Railway heritage

From the archive: Glasgow Queen Street

21 February 2019 | min read

The Network Rail archive is the custodian of a vast collection of historic documents and plans relating to today’s railway infrastructure. It…

New Measurement Train sitting at a station
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Delays explained
Infrastructure insights

How cutting-edge track technology is reducing delays for passengers

11 February 2019 | min read

We’re reducing delays for passengers – at 70,000 images a second. We’ve bolstered our ability to reduce delays caused by track faults, improving…

How fast can we build a railway station?

4 February 2019 | min read

From the archive: London Charing Cross

31 January 2019 | 4 min read
Freight trains at Felixstowe port