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A Network Rail report has outlined the risks to Britain's railway posed by climate change - and the measures needed to improve resilience.

The third climate adaptation report, published this month in partnership with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), sets out work done from 2016 to 2021 on climate change and resilience. It also discusses actions for the next five years and provides a comprehensive quantitative risk assessment of assets and regional weather and climate change risks.
(Permalink) Climate change DEFRA Holywood Network Rail Resilience


Holywood [1st]: The section of line near Holywood in Dumfries & Galloway has been shut since Monday (February 10) after Storm Ciara’s 90mph winds and extreme rainfall caused the nearby River Nith to erode an e ...
Network Rail 14/02/2020

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