The Carmont Train Crash

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What it means for Infrastructure Climate Resilience Six years ago, on the morning of 12 August 2020, a ScotRail passenger train derailed near Carmont, south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire. The derailment was caused by the train striking debris washed onto the track following an intense rain storm. The accident claimed three lives, injured six others and became the deadliest railway accident in Britain for almost two decades. Yet the tragedy was more than an isolated engineering failure. The investigation conducted by the independent Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) concluded that it exposed wider weaknesses in the way Britain's railway understood and managed the risks posed by increasingly severe weather[1]. As climate change alters rainfall patterns and increases the potential for more frequent episodes of intense rainfall, Carmont has become a defining case study in the importance of building climate resilience into ageing infrastructure. Before considering the technical...
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More rubbish is ending up on British beaches

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CBBC - Newsround - Why more rubbish is ending up on British beaches:
"The sun is expected to shine across most of the UK for the Easter weekend, so some of you might be planning a trip to the beach.

But they might not be as clean as you'd hope.

Conservation experts say some people are using their toilets like dustbins and loads of the rubbish is ending up on our beaches.

Hayley's been finding out more..."

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