Network Rail: Stonehaven

(asked on 4th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many infrastructure assets Network Rail has yet to inspect and assess as a proportion of total assets for weather-related infrastructure impacts in respect of (a) bridge scour, (b) earthworks susceptibility, (c) flood sites, (c) heat, (d) rainfall, (e) snow and (f) wind, since the Stonehaven derailment in August 2020.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 9th February 2021

Network Rail inspects its infrastructure assets in line with its published engineering standards.

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