Passenger rail safety could be threatened by a growing backlog of inspections of vital railway infrastructure, including bridges, culverts and tunnels, a regulator has warned
may not be able to comply with its own new standard for structure examinations starting in September.
John Larkinson, ORR chief executive, said: “There are over 70,000 structures on the rail network, so we understand the scale of the job of inspecting these assets. Equally, we know this requires clear, robust and systematic examination plans but previous attempts to get on top of the backlog of work have failed.A spokesman for Network Rail said: “We have been developing and enacting recovery measures to ensure structure examinations are up-to-date.
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