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Close-up of 3D-animated original drawings of the Manchester and Leeds Railway
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From the archive: stunning historic railway plans revealed

21 October 2021 | 4 min read

Stunning original drawings of one of Britain’s earliest railways have re-emerged in our archive. The archive, in York, has just…
Original drawing from the Network Rail archive of the Bramhope Tunnel's North portal
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The Architecture the Railway Built – Bramhope Tunnel

4 October 2021 | 6 min read

Television presenter Tim Dunn joins a night shift in the latest episode of The Architecture the Railways Built to find…
Aerial view of the River Thames with London Charing Cross station, the Hungerford Bridge and Buckingham Palace, daytime

The Architecture the Railways Built – London Charing Cross and Sir Christopher Wren

27 September 2021 | 6 min read

The Architecture the Railways Built – Newcastle

14 September 2021 | 4 min read
Details of the offices and bedrooms in the secret underground shelter at Down Street tube station

From the archive – Churchill’s secret station

19 August 2021 | 4 min read
Newly laid track

Why the end of the gauge war didn’t standardise Britain’s railway

20 May 2021 | 7 min read