Trains from Doncaster to Goole and Scunthorpe in northern England are currently disrupted due to a landslip. This one looks rather more severe than a mere collapsed embankment, as this photo posted to Twitter shows:
and another pic of the Hatfield & Stainforth landslide twitter.com/sammie_spad/st…
— Sammie Spad (@sammie_spad) February 13, 2013
Somehow I think this line will be closed for some time.
According to the Landslide Blog, it has the same cause as the Aberfan tragedy of 1969. Fortunately this one hasn’t caused any loss of life. The mess will still take an awful lot of clearing up.
