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Engineering and disruptions

Find details of engineering works, disruptions and planned improvement across the Northern network.

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200 Years of Rail

2025 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of modern railway. Britain and the world changed forever. Railway 200 celebrates the past, present and future of rail.

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Railcard Prosecutions

Recently there have been reports in the news and on social media about Northern's approach to Railcards, here we explain what happened.

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