{"id":2377,"date":"2010-09-26T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/26\/images-of-yesterdays-landslide-induced-train-incidents\/"},"modified":"2010-09-26T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T01:49:00","slug":"images-of-yesterdays-landslide-induced-train-incidents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/26\/images-of-yesterdays-landslide-induced-train-incidents-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of yesterday&#039;s landslide-induced train incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, an apology in advance.&nbsp; I am just en route to Chengdu in China, where I will stay until Saturday.&nbsp; Whilst this provides an opportunity to return to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2009\/03\/25\/beichuan-photos-of-the-aftermath-of-a-natural-catastrophe\/\">Beichuan<\/a>, which will be very interesting in the context of the rainfall-induced landslides this summer, it presents some other challenges.&nbsp; The most serious of these is that Blogger is blocked by the Great Firewall of China, so I will not be able to access it to make posts.&nbsp; So if it all goes quiet for the next few days, please accept my apologies.&nbsp; I should be able to post again on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in the meantime thanks to various people for highlighting photos of the various <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/25\/three-landslide-induced-railway-incidents-in-a-single-day\/\">landslide-related train incidents over the last 48 hours<\/a>.&nbsp; It now appears that New Zealand on its own experienced two incidents; in addition to the one at Manawatu Gorge there was also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/news\/regional\/57756\/two-freight-trains-run-into-landslips\">incident at Taumaranui<\/a>.&nbsp; There were no injuries in either case.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the Manawatu Gorge incident, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/photos\/4168895\/Train-hits-slip-in-Manawatu-gorge\">stuff.co.nz<\/a> has a pretty spectacular set of images: <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-NZ-train-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-NZ-train-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-NZ-train-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-NZ-train-2.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, there are also some images of the incident in India available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/states\/kerala\/article792720.ece\">The Hindu website here<\/a>.&nbsp; Unfortunately, at the time of writing their site is down, but I managed to access it last night. 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