Eurostar Chaos
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:18 pm
Wrong type of house on the line?Page 1 of 2
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:23 pm
Wrong type of house on the line?Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:38 pm
sounds right, but i used to live in one of those houses is Ridley Road in the 70's (when they were new!)Thrashin wrote:
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:03 pm
"May be due to subsidance"
Well what else causes a building to fall into a hole?
Probably really badly built on badly prepared ground and allowed by a well bribed council
Well what else causes a building to fall into a hole?
Probably really badly built on badly prepared ground and allowed by a well bribed council
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:31 pm
Oh dear.
Is it absolute gridlock in Ashford station?
Is it absolute gridlock in Ashford station?
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:46 pm
Bit of a British humiliation!
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:20 am
Not only subsidence can cause that, it can be due to settlement but would have expected that to show up a few years ago. there are more factors but cant remeber all of them right now as we had a lecture at uni on it a few weeks ago now.nwallace wrote:"May be due to subsidance"
Well what else causes a building to fall into a hole?
JR
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:50 pm
Lucky for me!
I only got back from my eurostar trips on saterday. Any earlier and I would have been delayed. Now we can't have that....
I only got back from my eurostar trips on saterday. Any earlier and I would have been delayed. Now we can't have that....
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:53 pm
The pictures on the local news showed a large hole in the drive with the front corner of the house having partially collapsed. God knows what caused the hole! Most of the soil around here is clay so I doubt that old mine workings would be there.
Regards,
Dan
Regards,
Dan
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:00 pm
underground rivers or streams could be a real posibility, looking at the pics on BBC showed another house which had signs of what looked like differential settlement (where part of the structure moves more than the other)
JR
JR
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:30 pm
Might be a tributary of the Ravensbourne River?
Regards,
Dan
Regards,
Dan
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:16 pm
2 on current/future eurostar lines in recent years. Natural sabotage maybe??
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:46 pm
What the hell is natural sabotage?
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:17 am
A phrase i just made up for these sort of coinsidences
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:30 pm
No risk to the line from subsidence but it fractured a gas main IIRC