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Railways: North Devon

Asked by Ian RoomeLiberal DemocratDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 2 December 2025UIN 94549

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much funding her Department has allocated to improving the resilience of passenger rail services on the North Devon branch line in each of the last 10 years.

Answered by Keir Mather

Network Rail has spent £2.9 million between 2017/18 and 2024/25 on scour protection works on bridges and retaining walls along the North Devon line. In addition, an average of £18,000 per year has been spent over the past ten years carrying out maintenance works to structure inverts, scour protection and removing tree debris trapped against bridges following a flood.

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