Britain's railway arches are getting hollowed out

Other News Sources - Railway arches are functional. If you want to keep a railway bridge horizontal, yoump;#39;re going to need arches. Once, Network Rail owned these bits that kept the trains in the sky. But these days, they have a price on them, as retail space. There are currently around 5,200 businesses located in railway arches, and in 2018, Network Rail was convinced to part with the lot for mp;pound;1.5 billion.