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Life at Network Rail
International Women’s Day: top engineering questions answered
7 March 2023 | 4 min read
This International Women’s Day, women from the railway and beyond answer some of the internet’s most asked questions about science,…
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Railway heritage
Preserving early electric railway history
23 February 2023 | 3 min read
Our railway is full of fascinating history. And every now and then we find something really special that we can…
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Why we do maintenance and engineering work at night
7 February 2023 | 2 min read
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Network Rail helps Samaritans bust ‘Blue Monday’ myth
16 January 2023 | 2 min read
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Christmas engineering works completed
9 January 2023 | 3 min read
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Why can’t normal train services run on snow and ice?
12 December 2022 | 3 min read