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When will the Northern ECML fall into the sea?

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Quite a few bits run pretty close to the cliff edge and it looks like the kind of coastline that's eroding on the kind of timescale that it will become an issue at some point. Is it something that has been planned for at all?
 
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There have been a couple of inland deviations north of Berwick already. Quite apart from the Penmanshiel Tunnel avoiding line, Prestonpans subsidence avoiding line and Monktonhall Viaduct subsidence reconstruction on new alignment. Normal kind of problem up there. Not to mention the flooding washouts and collapses in 1948.

Someone will be along to suggest reconstruction of the Tweedmouth-St Boswells-Melrose-Tweedbank line as a contingency very soon...
 
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Wasn't there some work done in the late 80's/early 90's on the cliffs North of Berwick? Rings a bell but cannot find any details.
 
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I'm not sure the intention of the OP was to produce a list of places that could be in danger.
 
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Darandio said:
Wasn't there some work done in the late 80's/early 90's on the cliffs North of Berwick? Rings a bell but cannot find any details.
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Lamberton, I think - I was there, the tracks were pushed together for a bit with a temporary single line working arrangement in place. 1983 or thereabouts.
 
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MadMac said:
Lamberton, I think - I was there, the tracks were pushed together for a bit with a temporary single line working arrangement in place. 1983 or thereabouts.
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As early as that? What was done to the cliff itself?
 
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Over the years there have been a number of track realgnments along that section.The most obvious is at Marshall Meadows Caravan Park where there is an S bend taking the line inland and the track bed of the old alignment is the caravan Park itself.
There was a fall about 1990 further North where the track was realigned inland and the old alignment could be picked out for a while but I haven't been down there for years due to circumstances
Incidentally I believe work was being done as early as the 1890s!!!
 
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Ken H said:
morecambe bay is very shallow. so the waves have little energy when they break.
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Also, that invasive grass stuff is pushing the shore line ever further out. Places like Grange-over-Sands haven’t seen waves hit the sea wall for decades despite climate change.
 
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