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Engineer Katherine Stowe on board our automatic train operation demonstration
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Women rail-blazers spearhead groundbreaking tech

8 March 2021 | 4 min read

Three senior women engineers at Network Rail are spearheading research on one of Europe’s most exciting rail innovation projects. Watch…
Engineer Tara Scott in PPE at the Bletchley flyover, watching it being taken apart, nighttime
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World Engineering Day – Trackside Tara and 300 tonnes of concrete

4 March 2021 | 4 min read

We’re sharing some of our favourite engineering moments this World Engineering Day … … like when Trackside Tara found out…
Ice swimmer and railway worker Jade Perry sits in front of a loch in Scotland wearing her ice swimming medals

Film – Everyday Heroes: Ice Swimmer

3 March 2021 | 7 min read
Still from animation about why we carry out works on bank holidays - yellow machinery lays new track

Why we carry out engineering works over bank holidays

18 February 2021 | 3 min read
Graduate Olivia Woodward stands outside the entrance to Network Rail's head office, daytime

Change the Game – Q and A with graduate Olivia Woodward

16 February 2021 | 8 min read
Original map of the Stockton and Darlington Railway inside George Stephenson's notebook

The Architecture the Railways Built – the birthplace of the modern railway

9 February 2021 | 4 min read