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Landslip between Redhill and Tonbridge

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Really well written news release and good video.

Does not running trains at the weekends enable them to do works not possible during the week days?
 
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Really well written news release and good video.

Does not running trains at the weekends enable them to do works not possible during the week days?
The slip site is several miles from Edenbridge so i cant see how they couldn't run the service from Tonbridge. Looks more like operating convenience for GTR given the heavy traffic is the education traffic in/out of Tonbridge on weekdays which would need multiple buses but weekend traffic can be covered by one coach usually.
 

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Really well written news release and good video.

Does not running trains at the weekends enable them to do works not possible during the week days?

I certainly imagine it helps. Weekend travel is a lot less although they are probably missing some passengers to Gatwick from SE services.
 

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Proving wrong some of the naysayers earlier in the thread!
more that its an exceptionally difficult site ??
trains will have to stop perhaps 50 yard short to get solid foundation then perhaps specialist hoppers with conveyors and further heavy machinery at track level ??
 

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Proving wrong some of the naysayers earlier in the thread!
It's partly a matter of scale - with the quantity of stone now being required, it can become economic to set up discharge and handling facilities. The timescale is also now long enough to allow that.

The question posed initially was whether rail access could be used to avoid the need for a temporary road, which it couldn't.
 

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That's not bad. Luckily (or not) they've been able to agglomerate resources with the nearby landslip on the East Grinstead line too.
 
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