Rail network at risk.
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Another scare story from the climate change nutcases. Landslides in London? Did no-one tell them that London is almost flat?
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This was the bit that concerned me.
"In a separate study by Network Rail, engineers concluded that half of the UK's 10,000km (6,000 miles) of railway cuttings and embankments were in "poor" or "marginal" condition, leaving them vulnerable to extreme weather events." Look what happened to the Severn Valley and Gloucester & Warwick railways. |
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Why are the cuttings and embankments in MARGINAL condition when Network Rail are supposed to care for all the infrastructure not just the nut& bolts on crossings :rolleyes: |
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We've had an incredibly DRY winter which is causing subsidence of the track bed due to the black-peat shrinking. Methinks this is just another quiet newsday for the Beeb...bad news sells, or so they say. |
I think you'll find that your local rabbit population does a great deal of damage to embankments and badgers love cuttings so all this activity needs to be investigated because it causes a lot of problems under the trackbed and heavy rain will easily wash down unsafe gradients and take trees with them.
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