{"id":15,"date":"2014-03-04T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/?p=15"},"modified":"2014-03-04T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:43:58","slug":"ibuild-invest-in-railway-lines-like-dawlish-before-they-wash-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/2014\/03\/04\/ibuild-invest-in-railway-lines-like-dawlish-before-they-wash-away\/","title":{"rendered":"#ibuild Invest in railway lines like Dawlish before they wash away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/files\/2014\/03\/DavidDawson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16\" alt=\"DavidDawson\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/files\/2014\/03\/DavidDawson.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/files\/2014\/03\/DavidDawson.jpg 238w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/files\/2014\/03\/DavidDawson-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a>This winter the news headlines have been overrun with stories of transport problems on the rail network due to coastal flooding and rising river levels, and this has prompted national debate over resilience of our infrastructure along with the response of local communities to the impacts of flooding. One of the headline stories has been the collapse of the London-Penzance railway line at Dawlish in Devon, leaving the region without a main railway connection to the rest of the UK. These storms have highlighted the urgent need for new business models.<\/p>\n<p>iBUILD researcher David Dawson, from the University of Leeds, is an expert on this stretch of railway line which he has been studying since 2006\u00a0.\u00a0 He was contacted by regional and national media on a number of occasions in reaction to the event of 5 February.\u00a0 The following is adapted from an article he originally prepared for \u2018The Conversation\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/invest-in-railway-lines-like-dawlish-before-they-wash-away-22919\">http:\/\/theconversation.com\/invest-in-railway-lines-like-dawlish-before-they-wash-away-22919<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter the news headlines have been overrun with stories of transport problems on the rail network due to coastal flooding and rising river levels, and this has prompted national debate over resilience of our infrastructure along with the response &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/2014\/03\/04\/ibuild-invest-in-railway-lines-like-dawlish-before-they-wash-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4914,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ibuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}