{"id":769119,"date":"2026-09-13T07:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769119\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T07:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T07:22:42","slug":"flooded-hertford-rail-line-to-close-for-nine-days-for-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/769119\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooded Hertford rail line to close for nine days for repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In December, the line was closed for nearly a week while teams carried out a full clean-up operation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some emergency repairs were made to the railway infrastructure, but Network Rail said &#8220;extensive work&#8221; was now required to make the route &#8220;fit for the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rails, sleepers and ballast &#8211; the stones below the track &#8211; will be replaced, and it is hoped the new track will last for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The platform structure will also be repaired and fully resurfaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Engineers will also take the opportunity of the closure to finish upgrading platform one at St Margaret&#8217;s station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December, the line was closed for nearly a week while teams carried out a full clean-up operation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-769119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}