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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Mr1Croft on February 13, 2013, 08:20:22 pm

Title: No trains to Scunthorpe.
Post by: Mr1Croft on February 13, 2013, 08:20:22 pm

A shift by pit at the Hatfield Colliery in Stainforth has caused this on the rail line between Hatfield and Stainforth and Thorne:


(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/562985_471703376212540_824872139_n.jpg)


Up to 8 weeks before this can be restored, could be longer, which laps with our game. There will however be replacement buses...

Title: Re: No trains to Scunthorpe.
Post by: MrFrost on February 13, 2013, 08:34:13 pm

Could put a few off going.

Title: Re: No trains to Scunthorpe.
Post by: donnievic on February 13, 2013, 08:38:11 pm

will you be able to pay on the gate

Title: Re: No trains to Scunthorpe.
Post by: Spankster on February 13, 2013, 08:44:12 pm

I thought Virgin now had tilting trains?

 :coat:

Title: Re: No trains to Scunthorpe.
Post by: Filo on February 13, 2013, 09:52:16 pm

I`m glad it slipped that side of the pit tip, we`re directly the opposite side of that tip, a slip our way would have taken some houses away, there`s a school this side of the tip as well, could easily be another Aberfan!

Title: Re: No trains to Scunthorpe.
Post by: Filo on February 13, 2013, 10:07:56 pm

An ariel shot of the landslip

(http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1707950.ece/ALTERNATES/s2197/Landslide%20at%20Hatfield%20Colliery-1707950.jpg)