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👊 Double Dartmoor
👑 Planning around the party this bank holiday
🌉 And introducing West Midlands’ longest ever rail bridge!
It's #WeekOnTheNetwork
Week on the Network - 15-05-22
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🕷 Spider track, spider track ...
🤖💪 This automatic robot arm lifts, shifts and places railway sleepers with laser-like precision. How cool is that? 🙌
#Engineering #Tech #MachineMonday
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😍 Stunning image of the returning 4D47 from Inverness back to Mossend.
68001 pulling the containers over the Slochd viaduct - south of the Slochd Summit in Scotland. 🏴
📸 Credit: @InvernessMom
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🙌 🚆 We've doubled services on the popular Dartmoor Line to give you hourly trains between Exeter and Okehampton!
That's after you made 50,000 journeys in the first 20 weeks of the line's reopening:
➡️ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk…
#TravelByTrain
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👊 Double Dartmoor
👑 Planning around the party this bank holiday
🌉 And introducing West Midlands’ longest ever rail bridge!
It's #WeekOnTheNetwork
Week on the Network - 15-05-22
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😨 Level crossings are not the place for a photo shoot! 📸 ❌
Please take extra care at level crossings. Set a good example - and remind children to stay safe.
✋👀👂ALWAYS stop, look and listen. 🚧
#SafetySaturday #LevelCrossings
Tidemills level crossing misuse
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😳 What would you say if we told you criminals had cost taxpayers £280k just in South Yorkshire in the past year? 😡
🕟 They also delayed your rail journeys by 89 hours! 😦
❌ So alongside @BTP we're cracking down on railway vandals.
➡️ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk…
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We maintain and develop the railway for your journeys 24/7 ... just like the teams who came before us!
#FlashbackFriday to the widening of the Midland Railway's Chiltern Green to Elstree line in 1893.
🐴 Spot the donkey cart by this bridge at Harpenden. 🛠️
@RailwayMuseum
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😄 🇬🇧 We’re happy to announce that most of the railway will remain OPEN for the Jubilee bank holiday weekend with only some services affected.
For more information, visit ➡️ networkrail.co.uk/running-th…
#JubileeBHWorks
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🚨 Check out our dedicated road to rail emergency rescue vehicle.
🚑 🚒 The 7.25-tonne Canter allows fire service and ambulance personnel to attend emergencies much quicker in the Severn Tunnel between Bristol and Newport.
#Fleet #ThrowbackThursday
Severn Tunnel emergency vehicle reveal.
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Sunrise or sunset? 😍 🌇
🌅 Worksop East signal box captured by @somethingsmalleveryday last year. 📷
#ThrowbackThursday
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🚇 Discover the secrets of the tube line and depot hidden beneath @LondonWaterloo.
🗝️ @mrtimdunn and @siddyholloway unlock the doors and show you around!
#SecretsOfTheLondonUnderground today at 8pm only on @yesterdaytweets @UKTV. 📺
Secrets of the underground Ep2
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Network Rail retweeted
We’ve partnered up with @networkrail to bring the power of nature into stations to help make your journey a little brighter this #mentalhealthawarenessweek 💐
If you need help with your mental health, download the #HubofHope app - hubofhope.co.uk
#BrighterJourneys
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🌻🌸 We're using the power of nature to make your journeys brighter! 🌼🌷
📸 Share your photos with us if you come across our flower installation at your station. 🚉
➡️ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk…
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #BrighterJourneys
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🏗️ Have you heard of the 'Snark' track construction train? 🚆
🛤️ Watch it in action laying new sleepers and clipping rail into place.
Take a look at all our other fleet 👉 networkrail.co.uk/running-th…
#Fleet
Snark new track construction train
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🚦 A brand new signalling system will replace ageing equipment dating back to the 1970s on the Northern City Line. 🚆
Some of the old equipment even ran on compressed air. The change will reduce delays and create a more reliable service for you. ✅
👉 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk…
State-of-the-art Signalling system
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Network Rail retweeted
Let our curators take you on a tour of the royal carriages, giving you a rare chance to see inside their intriguing interiors in this film.
invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=IybrQMbA…
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🦇 🦇 Throwback to last year when we worked with @ForthRiversT to put up bat boxes along the route of the Levenmouth Rail link. 🛤️
Read the full story here ➡️ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk…
#TimehopTuesday #Bats
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🏗️ A new landmark railway bridge is to replace an old viaduct in Birmingham that we demolished last week. 🛠️
🌉 The new bridge will become the longest single-span railway structure at 92-metres-long in the West Midlands.
Read more ➡️ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk…
#TimelapseTuesday
Time-lapse of bridge being built in Stechford
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🇬🇧 London St Pancras International station after the German air raid of 10 May 1941 - brought to life in colour. 🎨
A bomb penetrated platforms 3 and 4, and damaged the Metropolitan Railway underground line beneath.
📷 : National Railway Museum colourised by Royston Leonard
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🤔 Ever wondered what digging through a tunnel looks like?
🚇 Well, in 2015, Britain's biggest tunnel-boring machine broke through at Farnworth in Bolton.
Read more here 👉 networkrail.co.uk/stories/wo…
#MachineMonday
Tunnel-boring machine at Farnworth.
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