Stories around our network
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Stories
From the archive
Industry-leading
The Network Rail archive: Capturing our Histories
2 October 2023 | 5 min read
This Black History Month, we talk to our archivist about a project to record the stories of communities of railway…
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Stories
From the archive
Industry-leading
Happy Birthday Bristol Temple Meads railway station
31 August 2023 | 4 min read
Bristol Temple Meads railway station turns 183 years old today. It’s a station absolutely teeming with history and we are…
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Safeguarding the Forth Bridge
15 June 2022 | 3 min read
![Her Majesty The Queen sitting with rail colleagues for special photo taken at Reading railway station.](https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Reading_station_opening_-_Queen-scaled.jpg)
Platinum Jubilee – The Queen and the railway
1 June 2022 | 6 min read
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Film: The Railway at War – 1939-1945
12 November 2021 | 5 min read
![Close-up of 3D-animated original drawings of the Manchester and Leeds Railway](https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Manchester-and-Leeds-Railway-3D-still-min.png)
From the archive: stunning historic railway plans revealed
21 October 2021 | 4 min read