UPDATE: Disruption continues for train passengers travelling between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport after landslide near Stainforth
TRAIN services between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport are likely to be disrupted for a significant amount of time after a landslide damaged and uplifted huge sections of track.
The land movement took place at a colliery near Stainforth yesterday morning.
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The scene of the landslide near Stainforth which is causing disruption to train services between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport.
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The scene of the landslide near Stainforth which is causing disruption to train services between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport.
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The scene of the landslide near Stainforth which is causing disruption to train services between Cleethorpes and Manchester Airport.
National Rail staff have been unable to assess the full extent of the damage due to the ground still moving over the tracks.
Train passengers are still able to travel to Scunthorpe where a replacement bus service will continue to Doncaster where a normal service will resume.
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Buses will leave Scunthorpe for Doncaster at 15 minutes past the hour and from Doncaster for Scunthorpe at 45 minutes past the hour.
While commuters are having to deal with bus replacement services and the disruption to the normal timetable, it causes a considerable headache for freight – with 25 per cent of the cargo moved by rail in the UK either beginning or ending its journey at Port of Grimsby and Immingham.
Port director John Fitzgerald said: “We are working closely with Network Rail and freight rail companies to maintain rail deliveries from the port.”
A key element is the delivery of coal direct to Drax at Selby, the UK's biggest power station, from Humber International Terminal. A spokesperson for Network Rail said the vast majority of Immingham traffic is now running via the Brigg line, with some empty trains coming back via Lincoln.
Steel traffic from Scunthorpe to the south west is travelling east to Barnetby then via Lincoln, with freight to the north running via Barnetby and then Brigg and Doncaster.
The landslide site is less than a mile west of the M18 and M180 junction in South Yorkshire, which links northern Lincolnshire to the UK motorway network.
An initial estimate from Network Rail, dependent on a fuller investigation, is that the line will be shut for approximately eight weeks from the point when the land stops moving.
The landslide is still moving, with engineers not permitted to start work on site due to the dangerous nature of the site.
8 Comments
by JEFROMGRIMSBY
Thursday, February 14 2013, 9:08PM
“Interesting that freight services can be quickly rerouted but North and East Lincs travellers have to go by bus,taking longer,inconvenient,luggagestorage a problem with more carrying,difficulties for pushchairs and disabled.Last time requests were made even in Parlament for the Rail Co. to reroute but didn't show any desire to sort it out.Trains could go via Brigg and Lincoln to Doncaster and Sheffield but the same Co. just wants to take the easy way out regardless of the feelings of the travellers.Buses run erratically,sometimes late/early even not at all.
Our MP's should be on the case and shouting loudly about this along with the fact it's about time we had a direct through service to London on the Lincoln/Newark line as Lincoln has.”
by JEFROMGRIMSBY
Thursday, February 14 2013, 10:59AM
“Could be a lot longer which will again affect summer season trade and put more traffic onto the roads into Cleethorpes which are already overloaded in the Summer”
by steelman99
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 11:21PM
“why cant grimsby trains go to doncaster via brigg?
save changing onto a bus”
by MrIncredulous
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 4:47PM
“Meggie Dave beat me to it IMProveit. Think the previous closure "to protect against future subsidence" was alongside the canal further along the line, as the banks were weak.
Apologies if i am wrong though.”
by MeggieDave
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 4:37PM
“IMProveit - the work you refer to was carried out at Medge Hall, east of Thorne.”
by IMProveit
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 4:08PM
“In 2009 the line was shut for 11 weeks whilst works costing £20 million to "protect against future subsidence" were carried out - see http://tinyurl.com/bwsnjnj
The line has been shut for more works since then - and before this latest problem was shut on Sundays for works to be carried out.
So it looks as if something is seriously wrong with the previous works and / or risk assessment of future subsidence.
It's lucky that the latest subsidence didn''t cause a train to derail.”
by Corrina1971
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 1:56PM
“@ chrisblor, I thought the link to the pic was a joke! But just seen it on the local news-wow, what a mess! Could have caused a serious accident!”
by chrisblor
Wednesday, February 13 2013, 11:19AM
“It's even worse now - http://tinyurl.com/d7934h6”