Network Rail to close ECML bracing for record temperatures
infrared track monitoring, image: Network Rail
The UK’s East Coast Main Line will close on Tuesday, 18 July, as the country prepares for record temperatures to be broken. Meteorologists predict the record high of 38.7 degrees could be beaten by a record heatwave nearing 40 degrees. On Sunday evening, Network Rail said they would close the southern section of the East Coast Main Line from noon on Tuesday, halting almost all traffic from London to York and Leeds.
Britain may not be the hot spot with holidaymakers flocking to the beaches, but it occasionally gets warm in the British Isles. This week is one of those occasions, but for the rest of the year, it’s Cool Britannia – and the infrastructure is set up to work best when the weather is being property British. Right now, that’s a problem causing a meltdown on the tracks.
Passenger and freight affected
The Met Office (the official meteorological service in the UK, based in Exeter) has issued a “danger to life” red weather warning for extreme heat in the east of England, the Midlands and parts of the North West on Monday and Tuesday. It is the first time the weather boffins have ever done so – on account of the heat. Temperatures are forecast to reach as high as 40 degrees in some areas, including Cambridge, which currently holds the UK record for high temperature of 38.7 degrees, recorded on 25 July 2019. An amber (yellow) warning is in place across the rest of England, Wales and some parts of southern Scotland.
1 comment op “Network Rail to close ECML bracing for record temperatures”
bönström bönström|27.07.22|18:26
The “new normal”, hot temperatures, etc., call for a resilent (a robust) and an upgraded infrastructure.
Track safely stabile, in x-, y- and z dir., now has to be constructed for.
Still, when added load is allowed, the forces and stresses, by System, all the way, have to be low – and safely limited.
(Most vital track component, rail, shall not remain “weak link”, as currently…, etc.)
By rail/wheel radiated energy, “noise” (current symtom of low quality track) shall be low and limited, etc…
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The “new normal”, hot temperatures, etc., call for a resilent (a robust) and an upgraded infrastructure.
Track safely stabile, in x-, y- and z dir., now has to be constructed for.
Still, when added load is allowed, the forces and stresses, by System, all the way, have to be low – and safely limited.
(Most vital track component, rail, shall not remain “weak link”, as currently…, etc.)
By rail/wheel radiated energy, “noise” (current symtom of low quality track) shall be low and limited, etc…