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Severn Valley Railway boss talks about landslide.
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31/01/2025
Gus Dunster, the boss of Severn Valley Railway talks a little about the current lanslide issue.
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Here at Severn Valley and Gus can you just give us a bit of a brief rundown on what's
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happening in terms of the landslide and what you know at this stage?
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Yeah okay so on Wednesday we became aware that there was damage to the embankment on
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the railway between Hampton Loade and Bridge North. Since that point in time we're still
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in the process of undertaking assessments. There's people on site there today and again
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yesterday specialist engineers looking at the extent of the damage and obviously starting
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to begin to consider what the repair arrangements would be. We've got to continue that work
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next week so we won't know the full extent of what needs to be done probably until about
00:37
this time next week.
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So if I was going to put you on the spot and say you know are we definitely going to have
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the line fully open this summer, Bridge North, Kidderminster, is it too early to say at this
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stage?
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It's a little bit early to say. I mean we will be re-opened to the public on the 15th
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of February for half term and the only bit of the railway that won't be open will be
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the section beyond Hampton Loade through to Bridge North. So Bridge North station itself
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will be open but you won't be able to get any trains from Bridge North. We'll be running
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trains only through Hampton Loade and Kidderminster. How long it will be before we reopen the railway
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through to Bridge North I don't know but obviously we will endeavour to do that as soon as practically
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possible but that could be some time. But I can't be more specific about that. We won't
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know really for another week or so how long the work is going to take or how much it will
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be costing.
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Yeah I guess we must stress every penny counts and there's plenty going on at Bridge North
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station. You've got the shop, the pub and the tea room and they will still be open and
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doing their good work.
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They certainly will be yeah. We'll look to see what we can do at Bridge North station
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obviously for visitors who come onto the station as you've said there. We haven't quite decided
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yet what we might be able to do to get people from Bridge North to get on the rest of the
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railway but we are looking at getting some options on that so more to come on that.
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Right well all the best with it Gus, thank you.
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No worries.
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