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Bats: our flying commuters
31 October 2023 | 3 min read
Did you know the railway is a commuting route for bats? Bats follow the landscape using sound rather than sight at…
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Infrastructure insights
Making the railway digital – a signal story
10 October 2023 | 4 min read
You have probably heard that we are bringing the railway into the 21st century. But what does that mean? What…
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The Network Rail archive: Capturing our Histories
2 October 2023 | 5 min read
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Happy Birthday Bristol Temple Meads railway station
31 August 2023 | 4 min read
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Why International Women in Engineering Day matters
23 June 2023 | 3 min read
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Late May bank holiday works in numbers
30 May 2023 | 3 min read