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The main rail link between Cupar and Dundee is still closed after a landslip caused by Storm Gerrit.
(Permalink) Cupar Landslip Storm Gerrit

Rail passengers have been warned after a landslip in Fife has closed off a route for trains, with Network Rail Scotland stating it won't be able to reopen until an inspection in daylight.
(Permalink) Cupar Landslip Leuchars

The Inverness to Wick and Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh services have resumed.
(Permalink) Beauly Far North Line Inverness Landslip

All public bodies and companies responsible for public infrastructure must ensure it is able to cope with our changing climate
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

The rail body is being prosecuted at the High Court in Aberdeen over its failures in the decade before the tragedy, which killed three people in 2020.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

The driver of the ScotRail train who was among three people killed after it crashed into debris washed onto the tracks had just been told by a Network Rail signaller that 'everything's fine' moments before the derailment, the High Court in Aberdeen has heard. The revelation came as the UK Government-run infrastructure body admitted health and safety failings over the derailment at Carmont, south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire, on August 12, 2020.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

Network Rail is suspected to be fined after the train derailment but individuals should be held responsible, says Record View.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Comment Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

The railway operator admitted it didn't warn driver it was unsafe for train to run on section of track before derailment near Stonehaven.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

Survivor of train that derailed near Stonehaven in 2020 recounts her experience for the first time.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

The indictment alleges he was not told the track was unsafe before the fatal 2020 derailment.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

Railway safety will come under scrutiny with Network Rail, the UK's railway infrastructure company, set to face charges in relation to the 2020 Stonehaven rail crash.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

Three people died when a train hit a landslide after heavy rain near Stonehaven in 2020. Network Rail is due to face criminal action at the High Court in Aberdeen on 7 September.
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

The damage to the line is extensive and it will take several days for engineers to complete repairs.
(Permalink) Flooding Landslip Roy Bridge Tulloch West Highland Railway

Engineers will be working around-the-clock to repair the West Highland Line after severe flooding on Monday night caused significant damage between Roy Bridge and Tulloch.
(Permalink) Flooding Landslip Roy Bridge Tulloch

The Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh line has reopened after being hit by a landslip, but services are still facing disruption due to 'severe' weather.
(Permalink) Landslip Strathcarron Stromeferry

Avanti West Coast announced on Saturday morning that it had cancelled services north of Carlisle due to a landslip at Carstairs.
(Permalink) Carstairs Landslip

The West Coast Mainline is closed between Carlisle and Scotland as a clean-up follows Friday's floods.
(Permalink) Carstairs Landslip Markinch

The Oban line will fully reopen for passengers on Tuesday (December 27) following work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Falls of Cruachan on Loch Awe.
(Permalink) Falls of Cruachan Landslip Oban West Highland Line


Falls of Cruachan: Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan. Network Rail is working with BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland to re-connect communities al ...
Network Rail 20/12/2022


Falls of Cruachan: View east of the landslip site just east of Falls of Cruachan, seen from the old Military Road (built by General Caulfeild's men 1750-54 and now abandoned) above the railway. Debris has been removed f ...
Ewan Crawford 22/12/2022

Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan. Specialist engineers are on-site assessing the damage and putting plans in place to fully reopen the road which is currently down to one lane as quickly as possible. With the slope above the track still saturated with water and potentially unstable, repairing and reopening the railway will be a complex process and timescales for those works are still being assessed. [The location is just east of Falls of Cruachan station. -RS]
(Permalink) Falls of Cruachan Landslip


Falls of Cruachan: Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan Network Rail is working with BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland to re-connect communities ...
Network Rail 20/12/2022


Falls of Cruachan: Engineers working to clear debris and re-connect communities following landslip at the Falls of Cruachan. Network Rail is working with BEAR Scotland and Transport Scotland to re-connect communities al ...
Network Rail 20/12/2022

ScotRail has warned of train services between Glasgow and Oban being cancelled or delayed.
(Permalink) Falls of Cruachan Landslip

Among the recommendations to mitigate landslip risk made in the ORR report on Stonehaven, is the greater use of monitoring technologies. A number of solutions are in the mix, including InSAR, LiDAR and CCTV. However, the technology that has seen the most significant adoption in the last two years is wireless remote condition monitoring, which ...
(Permalink) Landslip ORR Remote sensing

Work to replant trees at the site of the 2021 landslip at Fairlie in North Ayrshire is now underway.
(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip


Fairlie: An aerial view of the repairs to the line at Fairlie taken on the 25th. Track and overhead line have been repaired.
Network Rail 25/03/2021


Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
Douglas Blades 20/03/2021


Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken. ...
Douglas Blades 23/03/2021

Commenting on the publication of the Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) independent report into the accident at Carmont on 12 August 2020, Ian McConnell, ScotRail Chief Operating Officer, said: 'This report is a terrible reminder of the awful events of 12 August 2020. Nobody in ScotRail or the wider industry will ever forget what happened.'
(Permalink) Carmont Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont] Derailment Drainage Landslide Landslip Network Rail Stonehaven derailment

Train services in Helensburgh have been disrupted this afternoon due to a landslip, ScotRail has confirmed. [The landslip on the West Highland Line between Craigendoran and Helensburgh Upper. -RS]
(Permalink) Craigendoran Helensburgh Upper Landslip West Highland Line

It is following a reported landslip at Clunes with Network Rail Scotland trying to arrange buses between Inverness and Dingwall.
(Permalink) Clunes Inverness Landslip Muir of Ord


Clunes: West Coast Railways 37516 'Loch Laidon' and 37685 'Loch Arkaig', on the way from Inverness to Georgemas Junction to collect another load of timber. They are approaching the site of the former Clunes ...
John Gray 10/08/2020


Clunes: The site of the former Clunes station looking north.
Ewan Crawford 18/07/2004


Clunes: Eastbound Safeway train at Clunes. Ben Wyvis in background.
Ewan Crawford //

Tilt meters are being fitted on Scotland's railway to help slow or stop trains before reaching a problem such as a landslip. [See Network Rail's own new item below.]
(Permalink) Landslide Landslip Network Rail Tilt meter

Network Rail is currently trialling a monitoring system which provides early warning of earth movements at sites across Scotlands Railway. Surface mounted tilt meters have been located at 26 sites across the network with a further seven sites across the country set to be installed in the coming months including on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line, East Kilbride branch, between Aberdeen & Inverness and on the line to Kyle of Lochalsh.
(Permalink) Aberdeen to Inverness Line East Kilbride Branch Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Kyle of Lochalsh Line Landslide Landslip Network Rail Tilt meter


Raven Rock Summit: Network Rail is currently trialling a monitoring system which provides early warning of earth movements at sites across Scotland’s Railway. Surface mounted tilt meters have been located at 26 sit ...
Network Rail //2022

New fibre optic equipment being tested for HS2 is intended to make sure that sinkholes never become a major problem on Britain's railways.

(Permalink) HS2 Landslip Landslip detection


Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021.
Network Rail 17/02/2021


Crianlarich: Scene at Crianlarich on 11 August 2015. On the right is 45407 with The Jacobite, diverted due to a landslip at Lochailort.
John Yellowlees 11/08/2015


Dalmally: A train for Oban leaving Dalmally, running late, on 27 September 1965. This was the day of the infamous landslip in Glen Ogle which resulted in the final closure of the route. It is not known if this ...
Colin Miller 27/09/1965

A landslip on the Kyle Line sparked the temporary suspension of railway services on the route this morning (Friday).
(Permalink) Cancellations Landslip Stromeferry

Rail services on the Highland Main Line have been plagued by disruption due to a landslip near Pitlochry. Commuters are experiencing significant delays to ...
(Permalink) Delays Landslip Pitlochry

The Largs line will fully reopen for passengers on Saturday (March 27) following the successful completion of work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Fairlie.
(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip Largs


Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
Douglas Blades 20/03/2021


Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021.
Network Rail 17/02/2021


Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken. ...
Douglas Blades 23/03/2021

The Largs rail line will fully reopen for passengers on Saturday (March 27) following the successful completion of work to repair landslip-damaged tracks near Fairlie.

(Permalink) Fairlie Landslip Largs


Fairlie: Looking down on the site of the major landslip at Fairlie, on 20th March 2021, with repair work apparently in its final stages although the track has still to be replaced.
Douglas Blades 20/03/2021


Fairlie: An aerial view of the Fairlie landslip seen on the 17th of February 2021.
Network Rail 17/02/2021


Fairlie: The Fairlie landslip site on 23rd March 2021. The track has just been replaced and the tamper was in action. However, the overhead line had still to be replaced at the time the photograph was taken. ...
Douglas Blades 23/03/2021

Train services have resumed in the north after engineers cleared the debris from a fallen embankment.
(Permalink) Far North Line Fearn Landslip Tain

A collapsed embankment in Easter Ross has forced the cancellation of all trains on part of the Far North Line.
(Permalink) Far North Line Fearn Landslip Tain

Rail services on the Kyle Line have resumed after a landslip was cleared overnight, but flooding has washed away track on the Inverness-Aberdeen line.
(Permalink) Dingwall Elgin Flooding Forres Landslip

A landslip just west of Dingwall has closed the Kyle rail line for the rest of the day, ScotRail has warned. [Journeycheck: Due to a landslip between Dingwall and Garve all lines are closed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day on 09/12/20.]
(Permalink) Dingwall Dingwall and Skye Railway Garve Kyle Line Landslip

The line between Huntly and Keith is closed due to a landslip and flooding has affected rail and tram lines.
(Permalink) Edinburgh Trams Hartwood Huntly Keith Landslip

A huge landslip in Bournemouth has damaged a cliff lift and crushed a toilet block. A stretch of the cliff in East Cliff fell away at 05:00 BST taking with it an array of fencing and benches. Luke Watkins, assistant senior ranger for Bournemouth Borough Council, said: 'It's one of the largest slips I've seen.' No-one was injured but the area has been cordoned off by the authority. More movement is expected at the site over the next two days. [From Mark Bartlett]
(Permalink) Bournemouth Bournemouth Cliff Lift Landslip


Bournemouth Cliff Lifts: Eastcliff is the oldest of Bournemouth's three cliff railways, but only by three months, having opened in April 1908. It is also the tallest, rising to 170' above the East Promenade on a gradient of a ...
Mark Bartlett 23/05/2014

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