Burrowing badgers threaten to undermine Dutch rail system
By Piroschka van de Wouw AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Badgers have dug out a home underneath a major rail line in the Netherlands, leaving tens of thousands of passengers facing delays. Train traffic has been halted, possibly for weeks, between two major southern cities, Den Bosch and Eindhoven, due to worries that the badgers’ tunnels have weakened the ground under the tracks. But the company that maintains the country’s rail network […]