Network Rail: Weather

(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 were identified by Network Rail as requiring action to protect or repair the asset as a result of weather-related infrastructure impacts in 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 inspected more than 1,000 assets in the last year, including 584 sites in the three weeks following the Carmont derailment. Of these sites, only 1% were identified as having defects that had deteriorated and required action sooner than planned.

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