'The biggest challenge our railway faces': Network Rail plots £2.8bn climate resilience plan

Michael Holder
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Rail network body to ramp up investment in efforts to help Britain's railway better cope with extreme weather such as flooding, heatwaves and storms

Network Rail is to invest around £2.8bn over the next five years in efforts to better protect and adapt Britain's railways to the worsening impacts of climate change and extreme weather such as flooding,...

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