Eurostar Chaos

timbgray64 · Post by **timbgray64** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:18 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4899830.stm

Thrashin · Post by **Thrashin** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:23 pm

Wrong type of house on the line?

timbgray64 · Post by **timbgray64** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:38 pm

Thrashin wrote: Wrong type of house on the line?

sounds right, but i used to live in one of those houses is Ridley Road in the 70's (when they were new!)

nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » 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

charlierc · Post by **charlierc** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:31 pm

Oh dear.

Is it absolute gridlock in Ashford station?

djhedge · Post by **djhedge** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:46 pm

Bit of a British humiliation!

JSReeves86 · Post by **JSReeves86** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:20 am

nwallace wrote:"May be due to subsidance"

Well what else causes a building to fall into a hole?

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.

JR

desiro5 · Post by **desiro5** » 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....

BR7MT · Post by **BR7MT** » 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

JSReeves86 · Post by **JSReeves86** » 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

BR7MT · Post by **BR7MT** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:30 pm

Might be a tributary of the Ravensbourne River?

Regards,

Dan

viperskil · Post by **viperskil** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:16 pm

2 on current/future eurostar lines in recent years. Natural sabotage maybe??

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:46 pm

What the hell is natural sabotage?

viperskil · Post by **viperskil** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 8:17 am

A phrase i just made up for these sort of coinsidences

enotayokel · Post by **enotayokel** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:30 pm

No risk to the line from subsidence but it fractured a gas main IIRC