Network Rail engineers have been working around-the-clock to re-open the railway in areas severely impacted by Storm Gerrit.
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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.
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Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity visited the site of the landslip beneath the railway between Kilmarnock and Dumfries to review progress and thank the teams for their efforts to get the line open again.
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Work to repair the landslip beneath the railway between Kilmarnock and Dumfries is now getting underway following damage sustained during Storm Ciara.
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Rail chiefs say there will be a further four weeks of work following the collapse of an embankment between Thornhill and Holywood.
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Emergency work to repair a landslip beneath the railway between Kilmarnock and Dumfries will take a further four weeks.
The line has been shut near Holywood in Dumfries and Galloway since Monday in the wake of Storm Ciara.
Heavy rainfall has caused the nearby River Nith to erode an embankment beneath the railway.
Following detailed examination Network Rail said the line would need to stay shut until 16 March.
Engineers are currently working to repair the 1,700-tonne landslip beneath the 50m (160ft) stretch of track.
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Disruption is expected to last until the end of the day, ScotRail has confirmed.
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