Emergency work to secure cutting near Chipping Camden

Oxman

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Emergency work to secure cutting near Chipping Camden

« on: August 14, 2013, 16:39:12 »

According to NR^» press release:

http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Emergency-works-to-secure-North-Cotswold-line-begins-1e26.aspx

the cutting next to the tunnel has started to slip and stabilisation work is to be undertaken.


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Re: Emergency work to secure cutting near Chipping Camden

« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2013, 18:20:10 »

Whist NR^» does try to be a good neighbour and it is urgent to get it fixed it cannot be that immediately threatening otherwise NR would have closed the line and used its statuary undertaking powers and various legal rights of access it has.


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Re: Emergency work to secure cutting near Chipping Camden

« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2013, 10:09:08 »

Interesting looks like the land has just been clear felled. Wonder if that contributed to the slip?


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Re: Emergency work to secure cutting near Chipping Camden

« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2013, 18:35:52 »

Quote from: eightf48544 on August 15, 2013, 10:09:08

Interesting looks like the land has just been clear felled. Wonder if that contributed to the slip?

It is possible, looking at the shape of the slip, that it is dumped spoil from when the tunnel was bored.


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Re: Emergency work to secure cutting near Chipping Camden

« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2013, 10:23:24 »

An interesting story about monitoring ground movements from orbit, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23789168 - perhaps Network Rail's civil engineers could make use of this early warning technique.

I think that the academics have missed a trick by talking about landslides near the Yangtse - some plots of a spoil tip in the Doncaster area might have been more relevant!


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