Topic: Resilience

Adif invests 35 million in landslide prevention and resilience

Spanish rail infrastructure manager Adif will reinforce the reliability and resilience of the railway network with an investment of 35.4 million euros in landslide prevention in cases of adverse…
Prioritise climate resilience, UK rail experts warn: ‘the earlier we act, the better value for money’

Passengers and freight face increasing delays and disruption if Britain’s electric railways are not adapted to climate change, a new report by electrified rail experts of Furrer+Frey warns.…
Network Rail sets up hot weather resilience taskforce after heatwave’s wake-up call

Following this week’s unprecedented heatwave, Network Rail is gearing up its efforts to make the UK network more resilient by launching a special taskforce for hot weather. “We’ve…

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The lessons Infrabel learned from the flood: ‘We had never expected the rail embankments to become so unstable’

“The flooding of last year was the worst disaster we ever experienced on the Belgian railways”, said civil engineer at Infrabel Bart Kamoen at the RailTech webinar on…
Climate change resilience for vital England – Wales rail freight link

Network Rail has announced a 25 million pound (28 million euro) investment to secure the future of what they describe as a critical cross-border transport link, serving freight…