Network Rail plans £2.8bn investment over 5 years to enhance railway infrastructure resilience against climate change.

Network Rail plans to invest £2.8bn over the next five years to protect railway infrastructure from climate change. The government-owned company will focus on making embankments more resilient, hiring 400 new drainage engineers, training staff to understand weather forecasts and installing CCTV at high-risk flood areas. Recent incidents of collapsed embankments have caused major disruption, with England experiencing record rainfall in the past 18 months.

April 03, 2024
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