EFFORTS to repair ScotRail's flagship route after August 12's canal breach continued well into September, but were hindered by water draining from saturated ground above the line, writes Ian Lothian.
When a 30-metre section of the Union Canal's northern bank collapsed near Polmont after torrential rain, millions oflitres of water drained out, washing away or contaminating more than a kilometre of the key Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street line.
By September 6, the Down line had been relaid, but water was continuing to drain from nearby boggy ground.