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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2006 19:33:49 GMT
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Post by setttt on Jul 27, 2006 19:55:13 GMT
 There's also about three or four ERU vehicles parked outside the station. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2006 20:14:50 GMT
do you think some of the earth has been moved away?
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Post by setttt on Jul 27, 2006 20:17:52 GMT
Possibly - it doesn't look much like the four tonnes which the BBC has reported. I can't be too certain though - first I heard about this was when you posted this thread!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2006 20:22:32 GMT
Yeah, I was thinking that dinnae look like four tonnes. I think it looks too neat for it to have been shovelled behind the cable run, so that looks like it stopped more from falling onto the tracks...
You mean to say, you saw this thread and dashed down there? Good pic there. I've just done a rough count and can spot three staff who appear to be yabbering away on Mobile phones...
Looks like I'm missing the fun on the Central...
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Post by setttt on Jul 27, 2006 20:27:55 GMT
You mean to say, you saw this thread and dashed down there? Yep - I'm closer than most.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2006 20:32:57 GMT
There no apperance of any dumper trucks where they could of put any moved land so I'd assume thats how it was.
See my point again, P-Way staff in photos and videos are ALWAYS captured just talking to each other on-site.
aslong as everyone is ok.
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Post by stanmorek on Jul 27, 2006 21:36:50 GMT
Technically its a cutting and not an embankment  Perhaps its just the lighting in the photo but most of the stuff on the track doesn't look like it belonged to the cutting or hasn't been there for long. It appears to be more loose gravel likematerial maybe used to fill a hole after something like a tree has been uprooted from there. And what is the significance of the white square object? However all this hot weather causes soils like clay to shrink and maybe today's heavy rain made it swell up and cause the slip. The guys on the phones have probably been called by their bosses demanding to know what's going on ;D |
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Post by setttt on Jul 28, 2006 0:05:18 GMT
A couple more pics...   |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2006 1:25:38 GMT
It looks like they're vacuuming the dirt out of the ballast and off of the sleepers and rails.
What sort of reinforcement will be installed to hold the dirt in place once the area is cleared?
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Post by CSLR on Jul 28, 2006 6:39:13 GMT
It looks like they're vacuuming the dirt out of the ballast and off of the sleepers and rails. What sort of reinforcement will be installed to hold the dirt in place once the area is cleared?Most gardeners have a tried-and-tested way of supporting embankments. They use old railway sleepers. |
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Post by thc on Jul 28, 2006 7:12:52 GMT
The thing that grabbed me upon first reading this story was the "six hundred passengers" that were detrained. Must have been one sardine-like 1973 stock!
THC
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Post by Tomcakes on Jul 28, 2006 7:33:08 GMT
According to the 8am news, the line has now reopened. Interesting how it happened on "one of London's major underground lines, which serves Heathrow Airport. The accident happened just 6 stops from the Airport." -- there is more to the Picc than H'Airport!
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Post by Chris M on Jul 28, 2006 8:16:56 GMT
As I was exiting Paddington Circle/District yesterday evening I heard the announcement that the Picc was suspended between Northfields and "Heathrow 1......... 2and3". I always seem to be in the wrong place for the excitment!
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Post by Colin on Jul 28, 2006 8:52:43 GMT
With regard to the amount that moved - 4 tonnes - I hepled a mate lay a patio last summer using 4 tonne of sand; that first piccy (thanks Seth ) certainly looks like 4 tonnes of movement. |
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Post by prjb on Jul 28, 2006 9:32:39 GMT
The thing that grabbed me upon first reading this story was the "six hundred passengers" that were detrained. Must have been one sardine-like 1973 stock! THC 600 passengers on a 73 stock is nowhere near crush loading levels. With regard to the amount that moved - 4 tonnes - I hepled a mate lay a patio last summer using 4 tonne of sand; that first piccy (thanks Seth ) certainly looks like 4 tonnes of movement. The only official figure I have seen stated that the slippage consisted of 3/4 tonne. |
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Post by Colin on Jul 28, 2006 9:47:58 GMT
With regard to the amount that moved - 4 tonnes - I hepled a mate lay a patio last summer using 4 tonne of sand; that first piccy (thanks Seth ) certainly looks like 4 tonnes of movement. The only official figure I have seen stated that the slippage consisted of 3/4 tonne. My comment was obviously based on the BBC report that appears at the start of the thread. I'm surprised the 'official line' is only 3/4 of a tonne - that definately looks a heck of a lot more; or are they only referring to what actually ended up on the track - mind you that in itself looks like at least a tonne. To give you some sort of guide - ever seen those large square sacks the the likes of B&Q and Travis Perkins use to deliver sand etc to building sites? - that's a tonne. |
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Post by prjb on Jul 28, 2006 19:55:35 GMT
In that case your right, it does look like a lot more! 3/4 of a ton was what the NOC report stated.
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