Ratho
Train services will return to normal tomorrow morning (Friday, February 2) after the successful completion of a £1m rockfall prevention scheme at Ratho on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line.
Network Rail and contractor QTS will finish work on site later today in time for the start of services tomorrow – meaning no more disruption to trains to Glasgow, Bathgate, Stirling and Inverness.
Working around-the-clock for the last four days, engineers have removed over 200 tonnes of material from the 100m-long, 10m-high rockface to the west of Edinburgh.
Engineers have installed specialist netting and over 160, 3m-long metal rock anchors on the site above the railway to reduce the potential of stones falling during freezing temperatures this winter.
Location: Ratho
Original line: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Photographer: Network Rail
Contact photographer: Network Rail
Date: 02/02/2024
Image number: 89341
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