£1m vegetation management programme on Heart of Wales line nears completion

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A £1 million programme to reduce train delays and cancellations caused by fallen trees on the Heart of Wales line is nearing completion. The project, which began in early January, has seen teams cutting back and removing overhanging branches along 60 miles of track between Craven Arms and Llandovery.  Video by Network Rail.

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00:00So we started on the 6th of January and we're working up till the 28th of March.

00:04We are clearing a safe walk route for a length of 48 miles, cutting back up to

00:13three meters on both sides of the track and we're also clearing structures,

00:18over structures and stations. We're clearing 600 meters each side of

00:23stations and we're clearing 300 meters each side of over structures to make it

00:29safe and to increase our adhesion through station areas and it's safety

00:36for around the over structures for trees falling and bridging across track.

00:41It's nice to have some money to plough into this line because there's a lot of

00:46dangerous trees through here, dead and dying, diseased trees. It's just like

00:50everything, the council and the road people, they treat the roads the same.

00:53They don't say oh we're not cutting a tree on that because it's an A road, we'd

00:57rather cut a tree on a motorway. It's the same here for us, just because it's not

01:01our main line, there's no less danger to the trains from a tree so we have to

01:07clear it exactly the same because the passengers expect the same service from

01:10us as the mainline passengers. We've got pride in it and I hope the guys doing

01:15the work are very proud of their work because we do thank them every night.

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