Friday 20 November 2020

NETWORK RAIL TO REDUCE FLOODING AT DRAYCOTT

Network Rail are helping to restore part of the Draycott canal route in Derbyshire with a £350,000 investment. This joins a £100,000 investment by the Canal Trust. The project will help reduce flooding on the railway and create new recreational facilities. Known locally as the Golden Mile, the section was infilled in the 1960s. Although a drainage ditch was installed in 1999 to help prevent flooding on the railway, it has still been flooded 19 times in the last 8 years.

Alan Holden

Writer and IT administrator for RailAdvent.

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