Photo credit:  Network Rail.  Network Rail has successfully completed repairs to a landslip near Edenbridge

The railway line between Redhill and Tonbridge has reopened after emergency landslip repairs were completed at Bough Beech near Edenbridge. 

Photo credit:  Network Rail.

Over the last two weeks, engineers strengthened the railway embankment over a 100 metre section by underpinning the railway, after the embankment became saturated and weakened following the recent heavy rainfall.  The railway had to be closed in its entirety, with buses replacing trains during the work.  As well as Redhill, affected stations include Godstone and Nutfield.

Network Rail is using remote condition monitoring at key sites to help monitor ground movement, and will continue to do so at Bough Beech.