Network Rail has announced that a £4 million project is underway to move thousands of tonnes of soil to protect the railway in West Cumbria from landslips for the next 120 years.
Fifty thousand tonnes of earth is being moved by engineers using special diggers on a slope at Lowca.
Last November, a section of the embankment collapsed after becoming saturated.
The work is part of the Great North Rail Project and also forms part of a £153m fund to keep 2,500 railway locations across the north safe and reliable.
The railway line between Whitehaven and Bootle will also be renewed in the summer.
What did the officials say?
Tony Butler, route asset manager for Network Rail, said:
“The removal of such vast amounts of soil is a huge task in a challenging location, but is vital to help keep trains running on this economically important route.
“The carefully planned work is one of hundreds of Great North Rail Project schemes to make the railway in the north more reliable. Once this old Victorian infrastructure in Lowca is brought up to modern standards it will secure journeys on this stunning coastal line for generations to come.”
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Its the same with Dawlish as money is being used on to protect the railway line from landslides and more future sea erosions along the sea wall and beach at Dawlish, Devon.