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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #70 On Track for a Rail Revolution
Description: The railway network in the UK is old and vast and home to the first public railway to use steam locomotives in the world. The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in 1825 and connected coal mines in the northeast of England.
It was the metal track, the coal-fired furnace, and the shrill whistle of the industrial steam engine that truly signalled the birth of the age of rail.
But in the present day, asset owners such as Network Rail face an immense challenge to keep track of and maintain this massive array of ancient assets, but...