Where Worlds Collide » Stainforth http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:33:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 Tracklaying by Salvador Dali? http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/tracklaying-by-salvador-dali/ http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/tracklaying-by-salvador-dali/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:30:46 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=6327 Continue reading →]]> 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:

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.

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