Date: 13/12/2016

The Settle to Carlisle line will finally reopen by 31 March after being closed for over a year following a 500,000 tonne landslip, Network Rail has promised.
Northern rail services on the line have been replaced by buses since a section of the gorge bank above the River Eden gave way in poor weather on 31 January this year.
The infrastructure owners chosen engineering scheme, of building a concrete and steel tunnel-like structure under the tracks at a cost of £23m, is now underway.
Rhiannon Price, project manager for Network Rail, said: The viaduct-like structure were building will safeguard this section of railway for generations to come. If the land gives way again, the railway will not.
This is a complex repair job many months in the planning. We are now focused on getting this iconic and much-loved line fully reopened right the way to Carlisle as soon as possible, which is on schedule 31 March 2017.

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Iconic Settle-Carlisle line to reopen by 31 March following remarkable works

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Network Rail and Northern Rail have announced a date to reopen the Settle to Carlisle Railway after a landslip.

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BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92009 heads south on the Settle and Carlisle line at Ais Gill in the 1960s with a mixed freight.
Location: Ais Gill Summit
Company: Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
// Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

Stanier pacific no. 46233 Duchess of Sutherland with the southbound Cumbrian Mountain Express on 6 September 2014 passing Culgaith, with the residents of the former station enjoying the spectacle from the adjacent fence.
Location: Culgaith
Company: Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
06/09/2014 John McIntyre

Having just passed through Garsdale station on 9 July 1961, The Borders Rail Tour runs onto Moorcock Viaduct. On the front of the train is 46247 City of Liverpool, which took the special as far as Petterill Bridge Junction, Carlisle, before handing over to a pair of B1s for the next leg to Hawick. See image [[33252]]
Location: Moorcock Viaduct
Company: Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
09/07/1961 K A Gray

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