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« on: February 03, 2025, 06:32:03 »
Getting worse / global warming / changing climate / or lack of maintenance or am I just noticing??

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrnz5wxgko
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Support for steam railway after embankment slide

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250121-france-italy-trains-to-return-after-19-month-landslide-closure
France-Italy trains to return after 19-month landslide closure
Paris (AFP) – The hugely popular train line linking Paris with the Italian cities of Turin and Milan is to reopen in March and April after a 19-month closure forced when a landslide damaged a tunnel, French railway operator SNCF▸ (Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais - French National Railways) and Italian counterpart Trenitalia announced Tuesday.
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2025, 08:27:01 »
And more fun and games if you want to go to London from Brighton https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/landslip-repair-to-begin-on-brighton-main-line
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2025, 09:17:51 »
Quote from: grahame on February 03, 2025, 06:32:03
Getting worse / global warming / changing climate / or lack of maintenance or am I just noticing??

If the number of trees and other vegetation growing out of masonry all over Network Rail's assets is anything to go by, you have to conclude that maintenance ain't what it once was
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2025, 18:41:41 »
I think the Severn Valley problem is a structural failure of a bridge wing wall, not a straightforward embankment slip?
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« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2025, 17:56:53 »
Updated BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) article on the SVR bridge failure.   Sad

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy7g5yrvz5o

A chap from Network Rail has explained that it’s probably the excess water flow that’s washed out the bridge wall.
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2025, 13:26:33 »
A bridge of the sort that has an embankment topping it, crossing something called the Mor Brook.

The link shows the site on NLS▸ (Nailsea & Backwell station) maps, with Google's satellite view as the background.

Looking at the satellite photography, the date of that is stated to be 2025 (which it isn't, cos, trees in leaf) but the bridge/embankment there already looks as if something was having a chew at it.

The structure looks to be able to take double track, but at some time since the 1950s an access road to a house has been taken across one side of it, which would complicate the business of slewing the track to allow the railway to restart services, if that was acceptable from the safety perspective.

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