Network Rail
Freedom of Information
The Quadrant
Elder Gate
Milton Keynes
MK9 1EN
T 01908 782405
E xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx
Ms Adrienne Kurdyla
By email:
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22nd November 2017
Dear Ms Kurdyla
Information request
Reference number: FOI2017/01306
Thank you for your request of 3rd November 2017. You requested the following
information:
“I'm doing my Geography dissertation on Dawlish, its coastal erosion and the railway
and I was wondering if you could answer these 2 queries:
Firstly, are there any plans to either re-route the railway or do any work around the
current railway in order to protect any damage for any future storms?
Is there a plan for if the storms damage the railways in the future? Or will it just be
repaired if/ when it happens again?”
I have processed your request under the Environmental Information Regulations
2004 (EIR) as the information requested is environmental according to the definition
in regulation 2 of the EIR (section 39 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)
exempts environmental information from the FOIA, but requires us to consider it
under the EIR).
I can confirm that we hold the information you requested.
In response to the first part of your request, I can advise that following the storm
damage at Dawlish an extensive review was carried out on options for re-routeing the
railway and improving the resilience of the existing route, this review can be found
Network Rail Infrastructure Limited Registered Office: Network Rail, 2nd Floor, One Eversholt Street, London, NW1 2DN Registered in England and Wales No. 2904587 www.networkrail.co.uk
he
re: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/West-of-Exeter-
Route-Resilience-Study.pdf. To address the second part of your request, we were then successful in securing
funding to develop a resilience scheme focussed on the coastal sections of route at
Teignmouth and Dawlish. A summary of that project and the work it is doing can be
found
here. By way of explanation, our objective is to deliver a railway which can remain open
through increasingly severe weather events as long as it is safe to do so. If the
railway is deemed unsafe and it is necessary for it to be closed for the duration of the
weather event the application of new technologies and careful placing of key assets
such as electrical distribution equipment will result in the railway being open to traffic
as soon as possible thereafter.
If you have any enquiries about this response, please contact me in the first instance
a
t xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx.xx or on 01908 782405. Details of your appeal rights are
below.
Please remember to quote the reference number at the top of this letter in all future
communications.
Yours sincerely
Emma Wolstenholme
Information Officer
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