Folkestone Warren 26/03/24

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[Mark A]

Article from BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) news, a bit of ground movement there. (Folkestone Warren being beneath a huge splay of thoroughly incompetent 'cliff' across which the railway built one of the two lines to Dover, the line being closed by a landslip of nightmarish proportions during WW1, and the area has been closely monitored ever since).

If you're in the area it's worth heading for the 'Cliff Top Cafe', apart from their bacon butties you'll find the start of a path that leads down to the bridge in the second photo, unlike the first the second was taken at a time that the rail line there underwent a long period of closure while another unrelated horror was sorted out nearer to Dover.

The whole thing could make Dawlish look like a cakewalk. Fortunately though, unlike Dawlish, this isn't the only rail line into Dover and East Kent.

Mark

[Mark A]

Forgot to link the article. A bit of handwringing about drivers on the minor cul de sac there who unexpectedly find themselves going off a tiny tho invisible-from-the-uphill-direction cliff. Meanwhile the railway's had a 20mph slapped on it. I imagine that Network Rail have the section wired every which way though.

Mark

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1rx4qr9z1po

[CyclingSid]

Folkestone Warren being beneath a huge splay of thoroughly incompetent 'cliff' across which the railway built one of the two lines to Dover, the line being closed by a landslip of nightmarish proportions during WW1

https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/the-great-fall-historic-landslip-images-resurface/

Puts our current landslides in perspective.

And if you want a view on how to "control" the problem https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2016/12/21/folkestone-warren/

For those who are interested it is well documented.

[ChrisB]

This should be (url) not (email)
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/the-great-fall-historic-landslip-images-resurface/

[CyclingSid]

Apologies, finger trouble

Sid