Network Rail to recruit extra 400 drainage engineers

Network Rail will channel £2.8bn of its total spend over the next five years into helping the railways better cope with extreme weather and climate change.
The weather resilience programme will see Network Rail recruit almost 400 extra drainage engineers to increase the care and maintenance of its drainage assets to handle heavier rainfall.
The infrastructure operator set out its plans to better cope with climate change as it entered its £43bn CP7 spending period yesterday.Network Ra