Yes but a tree falling on a railway line is significantly more dangerous than a tree falling on a road for example. A car can stop in 30 m, the precise distance obviously depends on the speed. A train takes several kilometres. A car can usually stop in the distance it can see. A train most definitely can’t. If it could railways wouldn’t need signalling systems. A fallen tree on a railway line can bring down overhead line equipment which. Which can take days, sometimes weeks to fix. A derailed train from a tree branch can lead to hundreds of dead and injured people. Think I’m joking. A landrover on a railway track in Selby in 2001 caused a train to derail and killed 10 people. A landrover weight between 1 and 2 tons. A big tree can weigh significantly more than that. So conclusion: despite climate change, reducing habitat destruction etc etc there are occassions when we SHOULD cut trees down. And this is one of them.
Not quite so...read their hype on their protected 'Green Corridors' for nature and unique species present...They said they didn't need to fell the healthy trees...and they could trim and pollard them back...but only if they were paid more money. The mass tree felling is nothing to do with health and safety, only keeping to timetables which may delay a train if a branch falls ..and the train companies have to pay out compensation to travellers for late arrivals. It is a scandal...
It has to be done as the trees and vegetation cause loads of problems... we get it all the time at work you just got to remember we work all over Christmas and New year to keep your train lines running
Its amazing that Network Rail are actually doing some gardening. The amount of bridges and retaining walls with Buddleia growing through them is appalling.
rarely nowadays...just to check if any trees and vegetation are left standing along the 'Protected Green Corridors' that Network Rail promote as a haven for rare species of trees, plants and wildlife etc. In reality its a con, and they don't give a toss...when it comes to timetables and having to refund customers money if a delay occurs to a twig, leaf or raindrop or snowflake falling on the tracks...
@@rollingpinboy That is not the whole story and most likely is barely any of it, those plats can cause serious issues for train brakes and signalling equipment if they either fall or blow their leaves everywhere.
You realise NWX would of consulted the local residents and had their own wildlife champion survey the area to ensure no endangered animals are living there as work on or near the line cant take place if endangered animals are present or live within 50m of the work site.
It made no difference. They said in the letter that only dead or dying trees would be felled and removed....They felled all the healthy ones as well over ten miles each side. as above...The survey is called an 'Preliminary Ecological Appraisal' by a network rail paid for consultant company and is worthless, and the survey was carried out a year before the tree felling took place over 10 miles each side, at around £41,000 a mile, of public purse/our money. The survey is required, but is just a piece of paper to let them loose and do it and to cover their arses, but they pay no attention to what it says. Despite it running thru the New Forest, the Consultant stated it would not harm any protected species. It doesn't matter about all the unprotected species that live in the 'protected 'green corridors'. In the letter to residents, they stated that they would fell only dead or dying trees. However they felled the healthy lot as well over the 10 miles. I never saw any on the day checking for nesting birds or for breeding wildlife etc, and they were felling in the bird nesting season in April. They did eventually produce the 'on the day' written assessment noting any nesting birds or nests in each tree area, via my Freedom of Information request... but it looked scribbled and 'dodgy' in my opinion...I never ever saw them check any tree or underscore vegetation for breeding or established wildlife. They also come along later in the year via a special adapted train and spray the whole area with Herbicide 'Glyphosate' Poison so that nothing grows back, which also maims and kills of all veg regrowth, insects, birds, bats, amphibians, retiles and mammals etc. and destroys the whole natural eco food chain for all creatures. They don't give a toss. They just hate being photographed and filmed doing it for some reason...
Friend, if Network Rail does not cut back trees & bushes, then in high winds branches and tree fall over and block running lines. Most of this work is done during the winter & autumn months to avoid nesting birds. Also trees & bushes have to be cleared of signals & turnouts. The guys in this video are just contractors doing work for Network Rail. That why one of them filmed you.
A point is Network Rail they don't want to maintain (prune, coppice etc.) the healthy trees and vegetation as they should have been doing, as others do along roads etc. Network Rail have always promoted and praised their railways 'Green Corridors' as a protected nature reserve and sanctuary for birds, Insects wildlife, shrubs, flowers and trees. Of course, leaves, branches and the occasional tree falls ..just like anywhere else in this country. It is called nature. Again, Network Rail and their Contractors are evicting birds and wildlife 'permanently' by felling the healthy trees and poisoning the habitat vegetation including trees with Glyphosate herbicides and pesticides so that nothing ever grows or lives within their boundary property. Don't forget they are a Government Agency and answerable to the public and not a law unto themselves. There is also the question to be answered of profiteering from the felling of all the healthy trees by Network Rail and the Contractors in selling off the trees for Biomass Fuel for wood burning power plants and also Forestry Products which is evident. and also No trees=No further maintenance costs. Network Rail should be ‘forced’ the maintain the healthy trees and habitat by pruning etc. which they have told me they can do if the Government paid them more to do so. It costs. They pay their partner Contractors approx. £ 41,000 per mile to fell the healthy trees and destroy the established habitats with poison. Maintaining would be much cheaper in my opinion. You are also wrong in that the felling is mainly done in autumn and winter as there are tier one contractors still felling trees all spring through summer as well. The introduction by Network Rail of the new 5G microwave phone signal in 2019-20 onwards is also another hidden reason why the healthy trees are being felled nationwide along 20,000 miles along their property and beyond, as trees and foliage leaves can block or interfere with the signal, especially in summer when in full bloom. Again, the leaves and branches on the line and others are just feeble excuses used to cover up their own incompetence with maintenance and timetable failures. At least 5 Government Agencies, Councils, Landowners, Farmers, Contractors and Developers etc. are felling healthy trees..everywhere, no matter where you look. Roads, Streets, Parks, Trunk Roads, Motorways, Rivers, Canals, Fields and Farmland...and Network Rail which is felling 20,000 miles of healthy trees along their property. Network Rail Quotes “Often referred to as the ‘green corridor’, the land around the railway is home to a richly diverse variety of species. We do everything we can to protect it”. “We are dedicated to minimising our impact on wildlife. Our in-house ecologists work alongside external experts to carry out detailed surveys helping us to identify the animals, insects and plants in the area that might be affected by our railway maintenance and upgrade work. “This means we can plan the best time of year to do the work - such as by avoiding breeding seasons - and get the licences and permission to work where protected species are present, making provision to minimise any impact. We work closely with national conservation groups, natural environment regulators and authorities in England, Scotland and Wales, frequently consulting them before starting work, and calling on their experts when needed”. Common Sense says Not True in my experience as well as others. It is a scandal.
@@rollingpinboy you don’t want trees growing near the line, they do damage with their roots at create hazards with their branches. This work will also promote the growth of grass and shrubs. Go back to winging about the bin collection you clueless muppet
Your Wrong... Our estate, which is about 52,000 hectares in size, is also used by many different types of wildlife. Often referred to as the ‘green corridor’, the land around the railway is home to a richly diverse variety of species. We do everything we can to protect it. The ‘green corridor’ is relatively undisturbed thanks to a lack of public access. For example, common lizards, grass snakes, deer and water vole make their homes close to the railway in East Anglia, while slow worms have been spotted in the south-west of England. Pipistrelle bats also often live on the railway, roosting in trees, tunnels and bridges. See More...www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/environment/wildlife/
Its a railway, you have to remove plants that will damage the signalling equipment and roots that compromise the track bed and safety of passing trains.
This has happened in Exeter recently too. I noticed they cleared WAY too much, healthy maturing trees were brutally chainsawed down, I noticed willows which were inside the fence but growing well away from the tracks and well below the level of the tracks were not spared. When I saw the stumps I stopped in dismay and a couple walking by also stopped and said "Oh no!"
I saw that Exeter press report in the local online paper. Essential emergency work they stated then to fell the trees...with council collaboration. Network Rail have the power to order the felling of trees of up to 60 metres from their tracks so that the leaves don't blow on their lines. The Contractors and Network Rail want all trees felled in the vicinity of the tracks for other omitted reasons. I believe their is more to the tree felling and vegetation clearance and Glyphosate poisoning of the railway habitat than what they state with the same old used untold number of excuses, which they say cause delays and cost the privatised rail companies money and lessen their profits. If Network Rail remove and poison/kill off all trees, then there are no more maintenance costs re-leaves/weeds/branches on the line. Network Rail and especially the contractors want the millions of felled trees to sell as Biomass and Forestry Products but mainly to burn as the flawed green/sustainable energy Govt initiative in the multiple new biomass wood burning power stations springing up all around the UK with local councils and street trees involved as well. Also the Network Rail/Government/Councils and Phone Companies introduction of the 5G microwave phone signal in 2019/2020 is also a reason to crucify all trees as the taller trees and leaf foliage and raindrops blocks and interferes with the signal reception. Basically, Network Rail (and others inc Councils) are killing three or four birds with one stone by continuing to use the out of date excuses and by not mentioning and omitting the new profiteering reasons. Train Speed Kills...not the trees or leaves etc..
I also noticed they took all the wood. I don't know if there's anything I can do to prevent this indiscriminate habitat destruction, obviously there is a need to prevent hazardous obstruction from trees and undergrowth on the railways, but that need is being used as a convenient excuse and as a cover for harmful profiteering and greed. What I do know is that I am going to plant some more trees.
@@Beesa10 you do that, gud on ya. Just plant them well away from Network rails domain ie: train tracks. I do love a do gooder who won't be around Wen these trees grow. Your a star.
@@rollingpinboy Have u video evidence of your accusations n proof that it's being sold to biomasses ? Probably not. Seems to me u just want people's sympathy over your outdated views.
Biomass/Biofuel for Wood Burning Power Stations and other Forestry Products...Check out Stobartrail and their sister/partner companies and others.... then you will see.
...tell me how many rail passengers have been directly maimed or killed by a falling tree on the tracks in the last 30+ years? It's nothing to do with health and safety as the risk is proven minimal, its about timetables, delays and paying out compensation to passengers.
@@rollingpinboy If it is not a passenger train it could be a nuclear waste train that would get derailed by fallen trees, or worse an oil train containing highly flammable oils.
Do you know how much it would cost to prune and maintain all the trees and vegetation instead of fell them? That would mean more rail closures for them to be able to cut it all back every few months and even then there still prone to failures in high winds and basal decay etc if not landing in the track then falling the other way onto property’s. Why reduce the risk when you can eliminate it completely? this is the way forward
Although Network Rail deny profiteering from the healthy tree felling and sale of the wood for biomass wood burning power stations and also forestry products...they are lying to Govt and the public. It is written on one of Network Rails own tier one contractors (StobartRail) own website. Network Rail also mention ''Biomass' on their own website.
Although im all for nature etc. U are the sort of person who wud moan n complain profusely if these trees n bushes blocked the rails n u cudnt get home till late - SUCK IT UP n leave Network rail to do the job it's paid to do. We get sick of hearing from whingers like you. maintenance needs completing !!!! That couple sed "oh No, not another whinger ".
The problem is...there is no NR maintenance, just complete destruction of trees and vegetation so you don't have to maintain them...It is a joke...Speed kills...not the trees.
The problem is they don't want to just cut the overhanging branches back via maintenance/pollarding/coppicing etc. They are slaughtering 'and removing 'all' trees and vegetation on their 20,000 miles of their property to remove maintenance costs and profiteer from the sale of the wood which is being used in biomass wood burning power plants(instead of Coal and oil) and from the sale of forestry products by third parties and contractors. Network Rail already have designated leaf removal trains on every region of the country. The leaves are also blown onto the tracks from outside of their property from resident gardens and public roads, farmland etc. and they have the power to force the removal of all trees from gardens and roads etc. within 60 metres of the lines.
@@rollingpinboy And of course when it rains heavy there be no living trees or bushes to hold back the soil and then the lines will be flooded with earth slides. The victorians ensured vegetation was in place on embankments to stop that. This is also to do with European Digital Signaling that requires clear lines of sight. Whenever a commercial interest is required the environment comes second. Until we all pay.
David...plus tier one the mercenary contractors want the healthy felled trees for biomass pellet burning in power plants and private heating boiler systems. The New 5G Network being rolled out on the Railways also requires no trees and foliage present as they block the 5G microwave signal, hence why 5 government agencies and councils are felling street and town trees, on farmland, riverbanks, motorways and trunk roads etc. They will all feed the biomass wood burning industry replacing coal and oil, but they still release all the Co2 they have stored in them when burnt back into the atmosphere, so no different. The 5G in trains also makes driving them automatic and the signaling is displayed on the trains dashboards inside, so no outside post signalling is required anymore.
Network Rail also have specially designed designated trains to remove any leaves/branches on the line operated in all 9 regions, so no excuse there, except to do away with maintenance costs.
The survey is called an 'Preliminary Ecological Appraisal' by a network rail paid for consultant company and is worthless, and the survey was carried out a year before the tree felling took place over 10 miles each side, at around £41,000 a mile... of public purse/our money. The survey is required, but is just a piece of paper to let them loose and do it and to cover their arses, but they pay no attention to what it says. Despite it running thru the New Forest, the Consultant stated it would harm any protected species. It doesn't matter about all the unprotected species that live in the 'protected 'green corridors' In a letter to residents, they stated that they would fell only dead or dying trees. However they felled the healthy lot as well over the 10 miles. I never saw any on the day checking for nesting birds or for breeding wildlife etc, and they were felling in the bird nesting season in April. They did eventually produce the 'on the day' written assessment noting any nesting birds or nests in each tree area, via my Freedom of Information request... but it looked scribbled and 'dodgy' in my opinion...I never ever saw them check any tree or underscore vegetation for breeding or established wildlife. They also come along later in the year via a special adapted train and spray the whole area with Herbicide 'Glyphosate' Poison so that nothing grows back, which also maims and kills of all veg regrowth, insects, birds, amphibians, retiles and mammals etc. and destroys the whole natural eco food chain for all creatures. They don't give a toss.
Only thing I’m mad about is seeing they’re using husqvarna instead of stihl, and the climber before he was in the tree broke the law, he used a top handle climbing saw on the ground when there for aerial use only
Are pigeons and seagulls protected in the law? If you were catching a train that you paid a lot of money to ride on, would you whine and complain when a tree falls down and stops your train?
Good on them that’s there job and if train can’t run because there is trees on the line more people will use cars car + more co2 so they are doing the right thing
A full ecological survey would have been carried out before any work was started, AND, if any nesting birds were found work would be halted and the nest placed elsewhere. Arborists and de vegetation teams don't just go round cutting down vegetation for the hell of it.
Sorry, but they do i'm afraid for the money involved...What about the 'hibernating' wildlife, bats, insects and protected and unprotected species all living in the trees and vegetation, especially in winter when most of the work is carried out, even thru the night with floodlights? Network Rail, (a Government Department) did it with partner contractors for over 10 miles both sides inside and outside the New Forest area. The ‘Preliminary Ecological Appraisals’ was carried out the year beforehand, but it was a paid for whitewash in my opinion, stating that birds and wildlife, bats and their critical habitat etc. would not be damaged. Only dead or dying trees were supposed to be removed by Network Rail after informing the local residents, however they felled 'every' healthy trees and underscore insect and wildlife sanctuary vegetation all along the 10 miles. What they do is massacre and destroy what they promote as their 'protected' 'Green Corridors' for Nature with unique species on their own website. They are doing this all over the UK on their 20,000 miles of railway property. They were also supposed to check for nesting birds in every tree and bushes etc. on the same day before they chainsawed them all down. They also and still do this mass habitat destruction in the bird nesting season which they are not supposed to do in April - end of August. Challenge them on every occasion if they intend to do it in your area. In 2017 it cost the public around £41,000 per mile for them to do this destruction. The ‘Preliminary Ecological Appraisals’ are not worth the paper they are written on as they are Network Rail paid for and not really independent as such and flawed as they are not current and a year out of date to when the felling starts and are ignored if anything is found that would stop them doing it. Getting that appraisal by a friendly consultancy is just a piece of paper that gives them the legal right to do it and covers their backs. They can do it all 'in house' with their own staff as well. with no scrutiny and challenges by those that object.
@@rollingpinboy Bats dont like to be in areas where they will be disturbed, a bat will not live in an active railway tunnel as they will be disturbed by the passing trains.
@@rollingpinboy If your going to complain about the safety conscious work they are doing to keep an already over loaded failing railway intact, then I suggest you join them or a year to know what the actual reasons for this work is for.
I bet you are the first one to complain when a Line is blocked by a fallen Tree...
No me, just like anywhere it's considered rare and accepted that trees and branches might sometimes fall.
Yes but a tree falling on a railway line is significantly more dangerous than a tree falling on a road for example. A car can stop in 30 m, the precise distance obviously depends on the speed. A train takes several kilometres.
A car can usually stop in the distance it can see. A train most definitely can’t. If it could railways wouldn’t need signalling systems.
A fallen tree on a railway line can bring down overhead line equipment which. Which can take days, sometimes weeks to fix.
A derailed train from a tree branch can lead to hundreds of dead and injured people. Think I’m joking. A landrover on a railway track in Selby in 2001 caused a train to derail and killed 10 people. A landrover weight between 1 and 2 tons. A big tree can weigh significantly more than that.
So conclusion:
despite climate change, reducing habitat destruction etc etc there are occassions when we SHOULD cut trees down.
And this is one of them.
It’s a railway line, not a nature reserve.
Not quite so...read their hype on their protected 'Green Corridors' for nature and unique species present...They said they didn't need to fell the healthy trees...and they could trim and pollard them back...but only if they were paid more money. The mass tree felling is nothing to do with health and safety, only keeping to timetables which may delay a train if a branch falls ..and the train companies have to pay out compensation to travellers for late arrivals. It is a scandal...
@@rollingpinboy And guess what the more trains are delayed the more small regional towns that need the railway will be affected.
It has to be done as the trees and vegetation cause loads of problems... we get it all the time at work you just got to remember we work all over Christmas and New year to keep your train lines running
Its amazing that Network Rail are actually doing some gardening. The amount of bridges and retaining walls with Buddleia growing through them is appalling.
Ray - do you ever use a train for transport
rarely nowadays...just to check if any trees and vegetation are left standing along the 'Protected Green Corridors' that Network Rail promote as a haven for rare species of trees, plants and wildlife etc. In reality its a con, and they don't give a toss...when it comes to timetables and having to refund customers money if a delay occurs to a twig, leaf or raindrop or snowflake falling on the tracks...
@@rollingpinboy That is not the whole story and most likely is barely any of it, those plats can cause serious issues for train brakes and signalling equipment if they either fall or blow their leaves everywhere.
You realise NWX would of consulted the local residents and had their own wildlife champion survey the area to ensure no endangered animals are living there as work on or near the line cant take place if endangered animals are present or live within 50m of the work site.
It made no difference. They said in the letter that only dead or dying trees would be felled and removed....They felled all the healthy ones as well over ten miles each side. as above...The survey is called an 'Preliminary Ecological Appraisal' by a network rail paid for consultant company and is worthless, and the survey was carried out a year before the tree felling took place over 10 miles each side, at around £41,000 a mile, of public purse/our money. The survey is required, but is just a piece of paper to let them loose and do it and to cover their arses, but they pay no attention to what it says. Despite it running thru the New Forest, the Consultant stated it would not harm any protected species. It doesn't matter about all the unprotected species that live in the 'protected 'green corridors'. In the letter to residents, they stated that they would fell only dead or dying trees. However they felled the healthy lot as well over the 10 miles. I never saw any on the day checking for nesting birds or for breeding wildlife etc, and they were felling in the bird nesting season in April. They did eventually produce the 'on the day' written assessment noting any nesting birds or nests in each tree area, via my Freedom of Information request... but it looked scribbled and 'dodgy' in my opinion...I never ever saw them check any tree or underscore vegetation for breeding or established wildlife. They also come along later in the year via a special adapted train and spray the whole area with Herbicide 'Glyphosate' Poison so that nothing grows back, which also maims and kills of all veg regrowth, insects, birds, bats, amphibians, retiles and mammals etc. and destroys the whole natural eco food chain for all creatures. They don't give a toss. They just hate being photographed and filmed doing it for some reason...
Friend, if Network Rail does not cut back trees & bushes, then in high winds branches and tree fall over and block running lines. Most of this work is done during the winter & autumn months to avoid nesting birds. Also trees & bushes have to be cleared of signals & turnouts. The guys in this video are just contractors doing work for Network Rail. That why one of them filmed you.
A point is Network Rail they don't want to maintain (prune, coppice etc.) the healthy trees and vegetation as they should have been doing, as others do along roads etc. Network Rail have always promoted and praised their railways 'Green Corridors' as a protected nature reserve and sanctuary for birds, Insects wildlife, shrubs, flowers and trees. Of course, leaves, branches and the occasional tree falls ..just like anywhere else in this country. It is called nature. Again, Network Rail and their Contractors are evicting birds and wildlife 'permanently' by felling the healthy trees and poisoning the habitat vegetation including trees with Glyphosate herbicides and pesticides so that nothing ever grows or lives within their boundary property. Don't forget they are a Government Agency and answerable to the public and not a law unto themselves. There is also the question to be answered of profiteering from the felling of all the healthy trees by Network Rail and the Contractors in selling off the trees for Biomass Fuel for wood burning power plants and also Forestry Products which is evident. and also No trees=No further maintenance costs. Network Rail should be ‘forced’ the maintain the healthy trees and habitat by pruning etc. which they have told me they can do if the Government paid them more to do so. It costs. They pay their partner Contractors approx. £ 41,000 per mile to fell the healthy trees and destroy the established habitats with poison. Maintaining would be much cheaper in my opinion. You are also wrong in that the felling is mainly done in autumn and winter as there are tier one contractors still felling trees all spring through summer as well. The introduction by Network Rail of the new 5G microwave phone signal in 2019-20 onwards is also another hidden reason why the healthy trees are being felled nationwide along 20,000 miles along their property and beyond, as trees and foliage leaves can block or interfere with the signal, especially in summer when in full bloom. Again, the leaves and branches on the line and others are just feeble excuses used to cover up their own incompetence with maintenance and timetable failures.
At least 5 Government Agencies, Councils, Landowners, Farmers, Contractors and Developers etc. are felling healthy trees..everywhere, no matter where you look. Roads, Streets, Parks, Trunk Roads, Motorways, Rivers, Canals, Fields and Farmland...and Network Rail which is felling 20,000 miles of healthy trees along their property.
Network Rail Quotes “Often referred to as the ‘green corridor’, the land around the railway is home to a richly diverse variety of species. We do everything we can to protect it”.
“We are dedicated to minimising our impact on wildlife. Our in-house ecologists work alongside external experts to carry out detailed surveys helping us to identify the animals, insects and plants in the area that might be affected by our railway maintenance and upgrade work.
“This means we can plan the best time of year to do the work - such as by avoiding breeding seasons - and get the licences and permission to work where protected species are present, making provision to minimise any impact.
We work closely with national conservation groups, natural environment regulators and authorities in England, Scotland and Wales, frequently consulting them before starting work, and calling on their experts when needed”.
Common Sense says Not True in my experience as well as others. It is a scandal.
@@rollingpinboy you don’t want trees growing near the line, they do damage with their roots at create hazards with their branches. This work will also promote the growth of grass and shrubs. Go back to winging about the bin collection you clueless muppet
In steam days the only thing that grew on railway land was grass and it was cut every year.
...That's why all the rails buckled in the hot sunshine, as they still do now when there is no tree canopy shading to keep them cooler...factual...
To be fair it’s a Railway not a nature reserve.
Your Wrong...
Our estate, which is about 52,000 hectares in size, is also used by many different types of wildlife.
Often referred to as the ‘green corridor’, the land around the railway is home to a richly diverse variety of species. We do everything we can to protect it.
The ‘green corridor’ is relatively undisturbed thanks to a lack of public access. For example, common lizards, grass snakes, deer and water vole make their homes close to the railway in East Anglia, while slow worms have been spotted in the south-west of England. Pipistrelle bats also often live on the railway, roosting in trees, tunnels and bridges. See More...www.networkrail.co.uk/communities/environment/wildlife/
Its a railway, you have to remove plants that will damage the signalling equipment and roots that compromise the track bed and safety of passing trains.
This has happened in Exeter recently too. I noticed they cleared WAY too much, healthy maturing trees were brutally chainsawed down, I noticed willows which were inside the fence but growing well away from the tracks and well below the level of the tracks were not spared. When I saw the stumps I stopped in dismay and a couple walking by also stopped and said "Oh no!"
I saw that Exeter press report in the local online paper. Essential emergency work they stated then to fell the trees...with council collaboration. Network Rail have the power to order the felling of trees of up to 60 metres from their tracks so that the leaves don't blow on their lines. The Contractors and Network Rail want all trees felled in the vicinity of the tracks for other omitted reasons.
I believe their is more to the tree felling and vegetation clearance and Glyphosate poisoning of the railway habitat than what they state with the same old used untold number of excuses, which they say cause delays and cost the privatised rail companies money and lessen their profits. If Network Rail remove and poison/kill off all trees, then there are no more maintenance costs re-leaves/weeds/branches on the line. Network Rail and especially the contractors want the millions of felled trees to sell as Biomass and Forestry Products but mainly to burn as the flawed green/sustainable energy Govt initiative in the multiple new biomass wood burning power stations springing up all around the UK with local councils and street trees involved as well. Also the Network Rail/Government/Councils and Phone Companies introduction of the 5G microwave phone signal in 2019/2020 is also a reason to crucify all trees as the taller trees and leaf foliage and raindrops blocks and interferes with the signal reception. Basically, Network Rail (and others inc Councils) are killing three or four birds with one stone by continuing to use the out of date excuses and by not mentioning and omitting the new profiteering reasons. Train Speed Kills...not the trees or leaves etc..
I also noticed they took all the wood. I don't know if there's anything I can do to prevent this indiscriminate habitat destruction, obviously there is a need to prevent hazardous obstruction from trees and undergrowth on the railways, but that need is being used as a convenient excuse and as a cover for harmful profiteering and greed. What I do know is that I am going to plant some more trees.
@@Beesa10 you do that, gud on ya. Just plant them well away from Network rails domain ie: train tracks. I do love a do gooder who won't be around Wen these trees grow. Your a star.
@@rollingpinboy Have u video evidence of your accusations n proof that it's being sold to biomasses ? Probably not. Seems to me u just want people's sympathy over your outdated views.
Biomass/Biofuel for Wood Burning Power Stations and other Forestry Products...Check out Stobartrail and their sister/partner companies and others.... then you will see.
I live behind a train track, the size of the trees is a joke. If one of them landed on a train.... Guess your going mental about HS2 atm?
...tell me how many rail passengers have been directly maimed or killed by a falling tree on the tracks in the last 30+ years? It's nothing to do with health and safety as the risk is proven minimal, its about timetables, delays and paying out compensation to passengers.
Every road, highway, park, woodland etc. that has public or private access are the very same....so you want to fell every tree on the planet?
@@rollingpinboy If it is not a passenger train it could be a nuclear waste train that would get derailed by fallen trees, or worse an oil train containing highly flammable oils.
Do you know how much it would cost to prune and maintain all the trees and vegetation instead of fell them? That would mean more rail closures for them to be able to cut it all back every few months and even then there still prone to failures in high winds and basal decay etc if not landing in the track then falling the other way onto property’s. Why reduce the risk when you can eliminate it completely? this is the way forward
Although Network Rail deny profiteering from the healthy tree felling and sale of the wood for biomass wood burning power stations and also forestry products...they are lying to Govt and the public. It is written on one of Network Rails own tier one contractors (StobartRail) own website. Network Rail also mention ''Biomass' on their own website.
Although im all for nature etc. U are the sort of person who wud moan n complain profusely if these trees n bushes blocked the rails n u cudnt get home till late - SUCK IT UP n leave Network rail to do the job it's paid to do. We get sick of hearing from whingers like you. maintenance needs completing !!!! That couple sed "oh No, not another whinger ".
The problem is...there is no NR maintenance, just complete destruction of trees and vegetation so you don't have to maintain them...It is a joke...Speed kills...not the trees.
Good work Network Rail and their contractors. Nice clear and safe lineside.
You know that's being done for the safety of the railway right ✅️
Either cut it back or leaves on the line you can't have it both ways.
The problem is they don't want to just cut the overhanging branches back via maintenance/pollarding/coppicing etc. They are slaughtering 'and removing 'all' trees and vegetation on their 20,000 miles of their property to remove maintenance costs and profiteer from the sale of the wood which is being used in biomass wood burning power plants(instead of Coal and oil) and from the sale of forestry products by third parties and contractors. Network Rail already have designated leaf removal trains on every region of the country. The leaves are also blown onto the tracks from outside of their property from resident gardens and public roads, farmland etc. and they have the power to force the removal of all trees from gardens and roads etc. within 60 metres of the lines.
@@rollingpinboy And of course when it rains heavy there be no living trees or bushes to hold back the soil and then the lines will be flooded with earth slides. The victorians ensured vegetation was in place on embankments to stop that. This is also to do with European Digital Signaling that requires clear lines of sight. Whenever a commercial interest is required the environment comes second. Until we all pay.
David...plus tier one the mercenary contractors want the healthy felled trees for biomass pellet burning in power plants and private heating boiler systems. The New 5G Network being rolled out on the Railways also requires no trees and foliage present as they block the 5G microwave signal, hence why 5 government agencies and councils are felling street and town trees, on farmland, riverbanks, motorways and trunk roads etc. They will all feed the biomass wood burning industry replacing coal and oil, but they still release all the Co2 they have stored in them when burnt back into the atmosphere, so no different. The 5G in trains also makes driving them automatic and the signaling is displayed on the trains dashboards inside, so no outside post signalling is required anymore.
Network Rail also have specially designed designated trains to remove any leaves/branches on the line operated in all 9 regions, so no excuse there, except to do away with maintenance costs.
@@Derek-un7wb there’s still vegetation on there. This encourages less damaging stuff to grow.
Has to be done! Here in Canada its faster and all done with heavy equipment. Less manpower. Safer!
I can’t believe that you would think this sort of thing would happen without A survey being done first.
The survey is called an 'Preliminary Ecological Appraisal' by a network rail paid for consultant company and is worthless, and the survey was carried out a year before the tree felling took place over 10 miles each side, at around £41,000 a mile... of public purse/our money. The survey is required, but is just a piece of paper to let them loose and do it and to cover their arses, but they pay no attention to what it says. Despite it running thru the New Forest, the Consultant stated it would harm any protected species. It doesn't matter about all the unprotected species that live in the 'protected 'green corridors' In a letter to residents, they stated that they would fell only dead or dying trees. However they felled the healthy lot as well over the 10 miles. I never saw any on the day checking for nesting birds or for breeding wildlife etc, and they were felling in the bird nesting season in April. They did eventually produce the 'on the day' written assessment noting any nesting birds or nests in each tree area, via my Freedom of Information request... but it looked scribbled and 'dodgy' in my opinion...I never ever saw them check any tree or underscore vegetation for breeding or established wildlife. They also come along later in the year via a special adapted train and spray the whole area with Herbicide 'Glyphosate' Poison so that nothing grows back, which also maims and kills of all veg regrowth, insects, birds, amphibians, retiles and mammals etc. and destroys the whole natural eco food chain for all creatures. They don't give a toss.
Only thing I’m mad about is seeing they’re using husqvarna instead of stihl, and the climber before he was in the tree broke the law, he used a top handle climbing saw on the ground when there for aerial use only
Haha although tbf husky make some nice tools too.
Are pigeons and seagulls protected in the law? If you were catching a train that you paid a lot of money to ride on, would you whine and complain when a tree falls down and stops your train?
People who disliked are the people in the video.
Good on them that’s there job and if train can’t run because there is trees on the line more people will use cars car + more co2 so they are doing the right thing
Depressing.......
A full ecological survey would have been carried out before any work was started, AND, if any nesting birds were found work would be halted and the nest placed elsewhere.
Arborists and de vegetation teams don't just go round cutting down vegetation for the hell of it.
Sorry, but they do i'm afraid for the money involved...What about the 'hibernating' wildlife, bats, insects and protected and unprotected species all living in the trees and vegetation, especially in winter when most of the work is carried out, even thru the night with floodlights? Network Rail, (a Government Department) did it with partner contractors for over 10 miles both sides inside and outside the New Forest area. The ‘Preliminary Ecological Appraisals’ was carried out the year beforehand, but it was a paid for whitewash in my opinion, stating that birds and wildlife, bats and their critical habitat etc. would not be damaged. Only dead or dying trees were supposed to be removed by Network Rail after informing the local residents, however they felled 'every' healthy trees and underscore
insect and wildlife sanctuary vegetation all along the 10 miles. What they do is massacre and destroy what they promote as their 'protected' 'Green Corridors' for Nature with unique species on their own website. They are doing this all over the UK on their 20,000 miles of railway property. They were also supposed to check for nesting birds in every tree and bushes etc. on the same day before they chainsawed them all down. They also and still do this mass habitat destruction in the bird nesting season which they are not supposed to do in April - end of August. Challenge them on every occasion if they intend to do it in your area. In 2017 it cost the public around £41,000 per mile for them to do this destruction. The ‘Preliminary Ecological Appraisals’ are not worth the paper they are written on as they are Network Rail paid for and not really independent as such and flawed as they are not current and a year out of date to when the felling starts and are ignored if anything is found that would stop them doing it. Getting that appraisal by a friendly consultancy is just a piece of paper that gives them the legal right to do it and covers their backs. They can do it all 'in house' with their own staff as well. with no scrutiny and challenges by those that object.
@@rollingpinboy Bats dont like to be in areas where they will be disturbed, a bat will not live in an active railway tunnel as they will be disturbed by the passing trains.
@@rollingpinboy If your going to complain about the safety conscious work they are doing to keep an already over loaded failing railway intact, then I suggest you join them or a year to know what the actual reasons for this work is for.
The f 😡
If they do not clear the vegetation then drivers cannot see the signals and then there will be crashes