Watch: Engineers lift Welsh rail bridge out of flood zone
1/8 Black Bridge in Wales has been lifted out of the flood zone
2/8 The bridge now stands 1m taller
3/8 Flooding in May 2021
4/8 The bridge was closed 10 times in 2020 due to flooding
5/8 Aerial view of the wokr
6/8 Engineers working on the bridge
7/8 Work underway in May 2021
8/8 Machinery on the bridge
A railway bridge in Wales has been raised away from rising river waters to prevent flooding on the track.
The bridge has been closed 30 times in the last decade and ten times in 2020 alone for emergency repairs caused by flood water. As such, the £3.6M project will significantly reduce disruption for passengers.
Railway in Wales reopens after freight derailment and fire
1/4 Derailment at Llangennech
2/4 Llangennech wagon recovery
3/4 Network Rail laid 520m of new track
4/4 The Llangennech site
Network Rail said it is “one of the biggest environmental recovery efforts” it has ever been involved with.
The southern end of the Heart of Wales line, which runs from Shrewsbury to Swansea, has been closed since the incident last year when a 25-wagon freight train derailed and then caught fire.
This led to around 350,000l of diesel being spilled into the ground, causing major concerns for the surrounding wildlife conservation area and waterways.
30,000t of contaminated soil have been excavated from 150m of railway, at a depth of 2m and width of 20m. That soil has been replaced with new, clean material from quarries in Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, with the fuel-soaked soil taken to a licensed waste management facility in Merthyr.
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Work to remove and replace contaminated soil from the site of a massive diesel train fire has begun
It has been described as an extremely complex recovery operation
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