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Stories
Life at Network Rail
Railway heritage
The Architecture the Railways Built – Ffestiniog Railway
5 May 2020 | 5 min read
It’s almost 200 years old, climbs more than 700 feet from sea level into the Welsh mountains and is just…
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Stories
Life at Network Rail
People and the railway
Just Like Me – Q and A with Katie Tingle
29 April 2020 | 3 min read
Katie Tingle probably wasn’t thinking about track geometry when she built her first Scalextric but she grew up to love…
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Railway staff provide logistics expertise for Nightingale hospital
27 April 2020 | 2 min read
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Seven jobs you didn’t know existed on the railway
22 April 2020 | 7 min read
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Just Like Me – Q and A with Dorota and Emily
20 April 2020 | 4 min read
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Signalling great careers on the railway
17 April 2020 | 2 min read