Stories around our network

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The Box Tunnel – Brunel builds the impossible
8 April 2021 | 2 min read
The Box Tunnel in Wiltshire is one of our finest Victorian structures. It’s also one of the railway’s greatest triumphs….

Stories
From the archive
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The Architecture the Railways Built – Royal Albert Bridge
26 January 2021 | 3 min read
The Royal Albert Bridge – Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s masterpiece – stars in the brand-new The Architecture the Railways Built. Historian…

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

VE Day – The railway in WWII
8 May 2020 | min read

From the archive: war memorials
11 November 2019 | 3 min read