{"id":89542,"date":"2018-03-02T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=66f9e387a4133d8abfe23f57c4f7ec9f"},"modified":"2018-03-12T15:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:30:34","slug":"news-story-drs-braves-the-beast-from-the-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=89542","title":{"rendered":"News story: DRS braves the Beast from the East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Update to news story<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority\u2019s specialist rail freight subsidiary was kept extremely busy keeping its locomotives running in the atrocious weather conditions that swept the nation at the start of March.<\/p>\n<p>DRS\u2019 Commercial Director, Beverley Stothart, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Providing support to Network Rail in keeping the UK\u2019s train services running is already an important part of our work, but when we face such a severe spell of weather, that threatens to disrupt the UK\u2019s infrastructure, it\u2019s even more important that we get DRS services out to help keep the lines open so the train services that we rely on can get back to normal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DRS loco\u2019s were deployed in support of Network Rail\u2019s efforts to return the rail network to normal, patrolling important routes to keep them open and driving snow ploughs to battle through the many drifts that \u2018The Beast from the East\u2019 brought with it.<\/p>\n<p>The severe snow and record-breaking low temperatures resulted in massive disruption to the rail network and train services all over the UK, in particular across Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Large parts of the busy rail network were unavailable for train services and, without clearing snow from the network, it would have been impossible for normal rail services to restart on key routes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the UK faced extreme weather conditions, Direct Rail Services joined Network Rail to help keep the nation moving by clearing snow from train lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89844,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89542\/revisions\/89844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}