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« on: August 14, 2013, 16:39:12 »

According to NR» (Network Rail - home page) press release:

http://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/News-Releases/Emergency-works-to-secure-North-Cotswold-line-begins-1e26.aspx

the cutting next to the tunnel has started to slip and stabilisation work is to be undertaken.
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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2013, 18:20:10 »

Whist NR» (Network Rail - home page) does try to be a good neighbour and it is urgent to get it fixed it cannot be that immediately threatening otherwise NR would have closed the line and used its statuary undertaking powers and various legal rights of access it has. 
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Starship just experienced what we call a rapid unscheduled disassembly, or a RUD, during ascent,”
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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2013, 10:09:08 »

Interesting looks like the land has just been clear felled. Wonder if that contributed to the slip?
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2013, 18:35:52 »

Interesting looks like the land has just been clear felled. Wonder if that contributed to the slip?


It is possible, looking at the shape of the slip, that it is dumped spoil from when the tunnel was bored.
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« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2013, 10:23:24 »

An interesting story about monitoring ground movements from orbit, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23789168 - perhaps Network Rail's civil engineers could make use of this early warning technique.

I think that the academics have missed a trick by talking about landslides near the Yangtse - some plots of a spoil tip in the Doncaster area might have been more relevant!
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