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Glos Warks Landslip

本贴由 Premier Prairie 于 2009-02-11 发布. 版块名称: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK

  1. Premier Prairie

    Premier Prairie New Member

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    Anyone know how the repair work is progressing at Cheltenham?

    John
     
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  2. Exestudent1978

    Exestudent1978 New Member

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    The last I heard a couple of weeks ago was the repairs were going well and on target to be finished at the end of Feb / beginning of March in time for the race trains. Hopefully though all the snow in the last few weeks hasn't caused this to 'slip' [-o<
     
    Exestudent1978, 2009-02-12
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  3. BillR

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  4. michaelh

    michaelh Part of the furniture

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    Odd that it should happen now, when there's been no rain in these parts for 2 weeks and everything is bone dry.
     
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  5. Stu in Torbay

    Stu in Torbay Part of the furniture

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    Ground has dried and shrunk and a large bit has therefore separated from the rest and moved? Just a suggestion I'm no geologist!
     
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  6. Sidmouth

    Sidmouth Resident of Nat Pres Staff Member Moderator

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    or a drains collapsed
     
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  7. 46118

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    I read somewhere--cannot recall where--that this embankment problem might be due to the underlying geological formation, hence the reason a number of bore holes are being drilled to find out exactly what is underneath.
    Quite why the land can remain stable for a hundred years and then move is something only an expert might be able to explain, or not as the case maybe.
    I guess the best the Glos-Warks can hope for is that the underlying ground is stable, and the movement problem is limited to the embankment itself. Even so, digging out a section and rebuilding will be expensive, as the SVR well knows.

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  8. Kinghambranch

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    See the GWR web page for more information. Parts of the Honeybourne Line run over clay which may, or may not be a cause of this problem. It has been very dry for the past month and clay will shrink.
     
    Kinghambranch, 2010-04-30
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    Bulleid Pacific Part of the furniture

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    I remember seeing a vast amount of holes in the embankment between Cheltenham and Bishop's Cleeve at the Festival of Steam two years ago. It seems the southern portion of the line is rather prone to these land slips, which I believe was one of the reasons for dismantling platform two at Cheltenham Racecourse.
     
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