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You still need access and that's the problem. I remember having a chat with the a PWay chap at Bristol Temple Meads and his line block to do the patrolling was 4 minutes if he was lucky.

Well I'm not really convinced a lack of money is the biggest issue, I think it's more a lack of time. There just isn't enough of that to do everything. As for leaving cut off rail etc trackside then so what, in many cases it's either that or suffer possession overruns.

So how many line blocks per day do you think are necessary and achievable to tackle the problem?

It's a standard railway operational telecoms cable cabinet. The reference on the sign is odd though and doesn't follow the standard NR FTN numbering system.

Just don't mention Gypsy Patch bridge.

IIRC any cost over £10m is paid for from insurance.

Filton Abbeywood station had the same style of fencing erected between the station itself and the line side neighbours properties. It is a sight and sound thing.

Not quite sure what you mean but there is a catenary wire across the bridge where the operational cables are protected and supported from.

I think that the remaining part of the embankment, once the slip material has been removed, is benched (stepped) and then compacted material then used to build the embankment back up again, then topsoil to finish things off. The sheet piles change the angle of the embankment which again...

Hollow bearers should only be used for local cables so in the event of a relay job they’d have to be disconnected anyway. Utxs are expensive to build, they will need confined space access protocols put in place (although that rarely happens) to get in to. They fill with water, which will need...

If they had have moved the elevated route back a metre then it would probably clash with the stanchions and if you move them back a metre than that creates additional issues.

Now I'm not a civil engineer but could it be that the abutment isn't sinking but the embankment behind is slipping and taking it with it ?

Of course the problem could be that the abutment isn't sinking but crumbling.

When I joined BR in the late 70s there were rumours that parties were held in the "flats" on plat 5-8, some apparently got a little out of hand. There was a certain flamboyant character at the station who may have had some input into those. I'm working at BTM in a couple of weeks time so if I...

Also worth noting is that sunlight destroys modern cables, something which the LU doesn't really have a problem with, so cable hangers are a great way to contain them and are used in mainline tunnels.

There's a YouTube vid showing how they work. The channel is RSS Infrastructure. Think it's Critical Rail Thermometer monitor 300??

Rail thermometers.

I did ask one of my civil engineering colleagues about trees and he said that cutting down trees causes a problem where they decay and leave voids underground, water goes into those voids and that creates more problems.

Trees don't help. During the summer months they draw all the moisture from the soil and during the winter when you need the water removed the trees aren't using any.

I suspect it's the wet winter following a very dry summer especially if the infrastructure is built on clay.