{"id":4658,"date":"2012-05-01T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2012-05-01T06:34:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T06:34:53","slug":"two-railway-lanslides-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/05\/01\/two-railway-lanslides-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Two railway landslides in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK has just suffered from its wettest April in 90 years, with much of the rainfall falling in the last few days.\u00a0 The result has been a number of landslides around the country, including two on railway lines (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/26\/images-of-yesterdays-landslide-induced-train-incidents\/\">see here for previous examples of landslides on railway lines<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Train derailed at the Clarborough Tunnel in Nottinghamshire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The more serious incident occurred at the entrance to the Clarborough Tunnel near to Retford in Nottinghamshire, when a train hit debris from a small landslide and was derailed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/central\/2012-04-27\/two-people-in-hospital-after-train-derailment\/\">(image from ITN News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4659\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/05\/01\/two-railway-lanslides-in-the-uk\/12_05-nottingham-1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4659\" title=\"12_05 Nottingham 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/05\/12_05-Nottingham-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Network Rail (the track operator) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/networkrail\/status\/195858950590173185\/photo\/1\">tweeted an image of the landslide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4660\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/05\/01\/two-railway-lanslides-in-the-uk\/12_05-nottingham-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4660\" title=\"12_05 Nottingham 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/05\/12_05-Nottingham-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"803\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two people suffered minor injuries in the derailment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.\u00a0 Landslide at Slochd in Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile on Thursday there was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17866812\">landslide on the line between Inverness and Aviemore<\/a>, again caused by heavy rainfall.\u00a0 On this occasion this slip was on a slope below the tracks.\u00a0 ScotRail, the track operator, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ScotRail\/status\/195859933659529216\/photo\/1\">tweeted an image of the landslide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4661\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/05\/01\/two-railway-lanslides-in-the-uk\/12_05-slochd-1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4661\" title=\"12_05 Slochd 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/05\/12_05-Slochd-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.highland-news.co.uk\/News\/Train-services-back-on-track-tomorrow-following-landslip-30042012.htm\">The line should reopen later today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In exceptionally heavy rainfall over the last week in the UK there has been two significant landslide events on railway lines.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[469,959,80,6,133],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-railway","tag-train","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}