Britain's rail services severely disrupted as heatwave damage is repaired

Network Rail announces 'resilience taskforce' to plan for future extreme weatherSevere disruption on Britain's railway continued on Wednesday while engineers worked to repair the effects of an unprecedented heatwave, as Network Rail announced a new "resilience taskforce" to plan for future extreme weather.Services were expected to return towards normal later in the day, after two days of blanket speed restrictions and mainline closures, but damage including broken overhead wires and fires that spread on to tracks was still halting many services on Wednesday morning. Continue reading...