glasgowniteowl
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Hearing from a friend at cross country that there's been some sort of landslip north of berwick, ecml currently closed to traffic between berwick and dunbar
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Landslip ECML 19 March
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LickeyIncliner
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1S08 is held at Alnmouth, TM announced this is due to a report of a possible landslip in the Berwick area. IS35 appears to be held at Belford, 1V60 at Reston
LickeyIncliner
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TM on 1S08 has just apologised for the delay and for the lack of information, but mentioned that the possible landslip is north of Berwick station
LickeyIncliner
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Moving northwards, 1S08 apparently authorised to go as far as Berwick
D1537
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1E12 and 1V60 have moved past the presumed obstruction, but they're now stopped outside Berwick as 1S07 and 1S35 are taking up the platforms. Nothing moving north yet.
LickeyIncliner
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1S08 stopped outside Tweedmouth, presumably for same reason
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1S07 now left Berwick. 1S33 ahead of it has not moved yet though.
I take it that it was confirmed not to be a landslip then? Good news
LickeyIncliner
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Still stopped and admiring the landscape in one direction and the North Sea in the other. All very tranquil - until 1E12 (presumably) passed at speed a minute or so ago and made everyone jump
Latest announcement on 1S08 is that the northbound line is not open, but we are proceeding into Berwick station. Not sure how that fits with post #13 above - but the TM did mention that there has been confusion between Network Rail Scotland and LNER Control
Further update: 1S08 stopped at Berwick just long enough for the catering crew to leave the train, then departed northwards running at what feel like normal service speeds and has now passed Reston.
There's a lot of what looks like ground movement monitoring equipment on the west side of the ECML roughly between Berwick station and the border. It would be interesting, maybe concerning, if actual movement was detected by Mark I human eyeball rather than the hi-tech. But I for one am very grateful to all concerned that it was both noticed and investigated
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Lines have reopened but delays still expected according to LNER.
https://x.com/TPEassist/status/1770105326618001540?s=20
Interesting approach to go for Rail Replacement Buses, wonder if the request will be followed through now that lines have reopened.
That makes more sense.
XC reporting all lines have reopened.
Lumo reporting all lines as reopened.
1P25 TPE had a loss of air, it was to drop a Hitachi fitter off to rectify the fault.
I was almost caught up in this as I should have been on 1E17 the 1330 from Edinburgh (formed off of 1S08 the 0830 from Kings Cross usually) however having seen the coming meltdown I was able to get to Darlington early and a kindly LNER train manager allowed me to travel on their service instead of my booked. Which, considering I was connecting onto the last Eurostar to Brussels of the day was extremely helpful of them! Looking at how 1E17 is going currently (48 down due 1835 at Kings Cross, the Eurostar is 1934) I would probably make it comfortably but I would be far more nervous than I am sat in a pub enjoying a drink 
My thanks as always to a pragmatic TM who prioritised good customer service over sticking rigidly to the rules (as it would seem that ticket restrictions were not lifted).
My thanks as always to a pragmatic TM who prioritised good customer service over sticking rigidly to the rules (as it would seem that ticket restrictions were not lifted).
yoyothehobo
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The monitoring equipment is vital for telling you how deep something is failing (if it is), how fast it might be moving, whether it is accelerating etc... but very few inclinometer arrays are actually live data uplinks, most are just read on a predetermined frequency by surveyors running a probe down the tube.
Inclinometers are the most frequent monitoring of slope failures. Where there is a risk of sudden failure you can have live uplink tiltmeters or lidar/monitoring cameras that tell you less about the actual failure itself but will give you warnings when sonething does happen.
LickeyIncliner
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Thanks for the explanation!