[Roxy]

THe railway enbankment above our house  went on fire this morning.  All the dry vegetation  soon got alight, and the fire brigade had to come with beaters

[Daisy]

Oh that is early in the year, mind you we've had no rain for ages now in fact the last wet stuff we saw was the snow

[sandy]

I suppose the train embankment is always dryer due to shallow soil etc, remind me not to live next to an embankment!

[doganjo]

Not here it isn't - it's got chuckies on both sides of the track and in the middle.  Very little undergrowth at all.