Landslide at Severn Valley Railway. We chat to the man that sounded the alarm.

Shropshire Star

A nasty landslide at Severn Valley is going to be a tricky one to fix, as it incorporates a water source and a large bridge that is damaged. We chat to a near by worker who saw the landslide and alerted the railway.

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00:00What's your name sir? Alex Stevens. Hi Alex and behind you we've got the landslip there and you

00:06actually called it in? Yeah. So you've got a yard just near here and you looked up and thought

00:12that wasn't red there before that soil. What was your first thoughts? Well I just looked up and

00:17just thought that looks quite bad so I phoned Severn Valley up just to warn them, let them know

00:24and then they obviously come down and assessed it and looked at it and obviously get it fixed now.

00:30So you're a Shropshire man? Yeah. So I'm going to ask you a question I think I know the answer.

00:34You love the Severn Valley? Yes. Yeah don't we all, you know what I mean? Yeah. And it's meant

00:39to be opening shortly so I mean we've just been having a look at this together, this looks like

00:45a big engineering task, the position of it with the bridge and that, it looks like a huge job.

00:50Yeah. I mean can you even begin to think how they tackle something like that?

00:55I wouldn't have a clue, I don't know, it's going to be a big task, it's going to cost a lot of money.

01:00Yeah. Have you been on the Severn Valley? Have you had a jaunt on it? Yeah I've been a few times,

01:07helped to kid them in some Mewdley. Yeah it's good fun isn't it? Yeah it's good fun.

01:12Yeah good for the town you know, good for everyone really. Yeah so how does it, you know, when you

01:18see that, does it kind of, does it make you concerned over the future possibly? Yeah hopefully

01:23they can get it fixed, if it does shut, obviously it's going to affect the bridge north, well

01:30everywhere on the line. Yeah everywhere. Everywhere really. So I bet your heart sank a bit didn't it

01:35when you saw it, because I mean I guess you see it and for all intents and purposes you're thinking

01:40oh my god is there a train coming in 10 minutes or you know? Yeah exactly yeah, because if a train

01:46yeah yeah could have been quite disastrous really. So thank you to your quick action sir. Yeah thank

01:51you. Good man, good man, well done. Okay thank you.

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