The UK rail infrastructure management agency Network Rail has proposed wide-ranging changes to the way it monitors and maintains the earthworks around its tracks. This comes in the light of the fatal accident at Stonehaven in Scotland, when a passenger train struck a landslip, killing three people on board. There has been a rising tide of other non-fatal incidents of landslip and derailments, and Network Rail has acted swiftly to address public concerns after the 12 August crash.