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The main rail link between Cupar and Dundee is still closed after a landslip caused by Storm Gerrit.
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The Inverness to Wick and Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh services have resumed.
(Permalink) Beauly Far North Line Inverness Landslip |
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All public bodies and companies responsible for public infrastructure must ensure it is able to cope with our changing climate
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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The rail body is being prosecuted at the High Court in Aberdeen over its failures in the decade before the tragedy, which killed three people in 2020.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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The driver of the ScotRail train who was among three people killed after it crashed into debris washed onto the tracks had just been told by a Network Rail signaller that 'everything's fine' moments before the derailment, the High Court in Aberdeen has heard. The revelation came as the UK Government-run infrastructure body admitted health and safety failings over the derailment at Carmont, south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, on August 12, 2020.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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Network Rail is suspected to be fined after the train derailment but individuals should be held responsible, says Record View.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Comment Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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The railway operator admitted it didn't warn driver it was unsafe for train to run on section of track before derailment near Stonehaven.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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Survivor of train that derailed near Stonehaven in 2020 recounts her experience for the first time.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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The indictment alleges he was not told the track was unsafe before the fatal 2020 derailment.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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Railway safety will come under scrutiny with Network Rail, the UK's railway infrastructure company, set to face charges in relation to the 2020 Stonehaven rail crash.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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Three people died when a train hit a landslide after heavy rain near Stonehaven in 2020. Network Rail is due to face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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The damage to the line is extensive and it will take several days for engineers to complete repairs.
(Permalink) Flooding Landslip Roy Bridge Tulloch West Highland Railway |
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Engineers will be working around-the-clock to repair the West Highland Line after severe flooding on Monday night caused significant damage between Roy Bridge and Tulloch.
(Permalink) Flooding Landslip Roy Bridge Tulloch |
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The Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh line has reopened after being hit by a landslip, but services are still facing disruption due to 'severe' weather.
(Permalink) Landslip Strathcarron Stromeferry |
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The Oban line will fully reopen for passengers on Tuesday (December 27) following work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Falls of Cruachan on Loch Awe.
(Permalink) Falls of Cruachan Landslip Oban West Highland Line  Falls of Cruachan: Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan. Network Rail is working with BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland to re-connect communities al ...  Falls of Cruachan: View east of the landslip site just east of Falls of Cruachan, seen from the old Military Road (built by General Caulfeild's men 1750-54 and now abandoned) above the railway. Debris has been removed f ... |
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Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan. Specialist engineers are on-site assessing the damage and putting plans in place to fully reopen the road which is currently down to one lane as quickly as possible. With the slope above the track still saturated with water and potentially unstable, repairing and reopening the railway will be a complex process and timescales for those works are still being assessed. [The location is just east of Falls of Cruachan station. -RS]
(Permalink) Falls of Cruachan Landslip  Falls of Cruachan: Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan
Network Rail is working with BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland to re-connect communities ... Falls of Cruachan: Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan. Network Rail is working with BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland to re-connect communities al ... |
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ScotRail has warned of train services between Glasgow and Oban being cancelled or delayed.
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Among the recommendations to mitigate landslip risk made in the ORR report on Stonehaven, is the greater use of monitoring technologies. A number of solutions are in the mix, including InSAR, LiDAR and CCTV. However, the technology that has seen the most significant adoption in the last two years is wireless remote condition monitoring, which ...
(Permalink) Landslip ORR Remote sensing |
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Work to replant trees at the site of the 2021 landslip at Fairlie in North Ayrshire is now underway.
(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip  Fairlie: An aerial view of the repairs to the line at Fairlie taken on the 25th. Track and overhead line have been repaired.  Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
 Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken.
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Commenting on the publication of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) independent report into the accident at Carmont on 12 August 2020, Ian McConnell, ScotRail Chief Operating Officer, said: 'This report is a terrible reminder of the awful events of 12 August 2020. Nobody in ScotRail or the wider industry will ever forget what happened.'
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment |
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Train services in Helensburgh have been disrupted this afternoon due to a landslip, ScotRail has confirmed. [The landslip on the West Highland Line between Craigendoran and Helensburgh Upper. -RS]
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It is following a reported landslip at Clunes with Network Rail Scotland trying to arrange buses between Inverness and Dingwall.
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Tilt meters are being fitted on Scotland's railway to help slow or stop trains before reaching a problem such as a landslip. [See Network Rail's own new item below.]
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Network Rail is currently trialling a monitoring system which provides early warning of earth movements at sites across Scotlands Railway. Surface mounted tilt meters have been located at 26 sites across the network with a further seven sites across the country set to be installed in the coming months including on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line, East Kilbride branch, between Aberdeen & Inverness and on the line to Kyle of Lochalsh.
(Permalink) Aberdeen to Inverness Line East Kilbride Branch Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Kyle of Lochalsh Line Landslide Landslip Network Rail Tilt meter  Raven Rock Summit: Network Rail is currently trialling a monitoring system which provides early warning of earth movements at sites across Scotland’s Railway.
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New fibre optic equipment being tested for HS2 is intended to make sure that sinkholes never become a major problem on Britain's railways.
(Permalink) HS2 Landslip Landslip detection  Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021.  Crianlarich: Scene at Crianlarich on 11 August 2015. On the right is 45407 with The Jacobite, diverted due to a landslip at Lochailort.  Dalmally: A train for Oban leaving Dalmally, running late, on 27 September 1965. This was the day of the infamous landslip in Glen Ogle which resulted in the final closure of the route. It is not known if this ... |
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A landslip on the Kyle Line sparked the temporary suspension of railway services on the route this morning (Friday).
(Permalink) Cancellations Landslip Stromeferry |
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The Largs line will fully reopen for passengers on Saturday (March 27) following the successful completion of work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Fairlie.
(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip Largs Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021. Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken.
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The Largs rail line will fully reopen for passengers on Saturday (March 27) following the successful completion of work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Fairlie.
(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip Largs Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021. Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken.
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Train services have resumed in the north after engineers cleared the debris from a fallen embankment.
(Permalink) Far North Line Fearn Landslip Tain |
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A collapsed embankment in Easter Ross has forced the cancellation of all trains on part of the Far North Line.
(Permalink) Far North Line Fearn Landslip Tain |
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A landslip just west of Dingwall has closed the Kyle rail line for the rest of the day, ScotRail has warned. [Journeycheck: Due to a landslip between Dingwall and Garve all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 09/12/20.]
(Permalink) Dingwall Dingwall and Skye Railway Garve Kyle Line Landslip |
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A huge landslip in Bournemouth has damaged a cliff lift and crushed a toilet block. A stretch of the cliff in East Cliff fell away at 05:00 BST taking with it an array of fencing and benches. Luke Watkins, assistant senior ranger for Bournemouth Borough Council, said: 'It's one of the largest slips I've seen.' No-one was injured but the area has been cordoned off by the authority. More movement is expected at the site over the next two days. [From Mark Bartlett]
(Permalink) Bournemouth Bournemouth Cliff Lift Landslip  Bournemouth Cliff Lifts: Eastcliff is the oldest of Bournemouth's three cliff railways, but only by three months, having opened in April 1908. It is also the tallest, rising to 170' above the East Promenade on a gradient of a ... |
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