GROUND CONTROL

Network Rail plans week of engineering to protect route from landslips

Network Rail engineers will carry out £3 million upgrades to stabilise several cuttings and embankments to prevent potential landslips at six sites on the railway between Faversham, Canterbury East and Dover Priory in the UK, this February.

 Network Rail undertaking slope stabilisation work on at the Fareham tunnel cutting

Network Rail undertaking slope stabilisation work on at the Fareham tunnel cutting

Work will involve removing thousands of tonnes of earth from sections of cuttings to reduce the steepness of the slopes leading down to the track and installing rock netting to prevent rocks and earth...

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