Plans for work to make the railway line at Exeter's Cowley Bridge less vulnerable to flooding have been drawn up by Network Rail.
It's one of ten projects costing a total of 31 million pounds, which have been passed on to the Department for Transport to consider for funding.
Local MPs and councillors have been calling for urgent work to prevent bad weather from affecting rail services so severely, after lengthy disruption last winter when the river Exe burst its banks at Cowley Bridge on two occasions.
Flood defences are the responsibility of the Environment Agency, but the rail company can take action to reinforce the railway tracks and protect ineside equipment bette
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