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Railway Earthworks: Slips, Slides and Flows Clare Brint, BSc, MSc, CGeol, Senior Asset Engineer (Geotechnics) LNE North Martyn Wilson, BSc, MSc, Senior Asset Engineer (Geotechnics) LNE South & EM
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What are we going to talk about?
Introduction to LNE&EM Geotech team & Railway Earthworks
Case histories: Slips (Gonerby, Dorrington) Slides (Woodwalton, Apperley Lane) Flows (Sutton Bonington, Clarborough)
Complex failures: Unstone, Hatfield, Farnley Haugh
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Who we are:
LNE&EM Route Geotechnical Asset Management team
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What is a railway earthwork?
Embankment Constructed by tipping fill from nearby cuttings / borrow pits onto natural ground
Soil / Rock Cutting Constructed by excavating through natural ground
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What is a railway earthwork?
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What is a railway earthwork?
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure Settlement of underlying natural ground
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time Settlement of underlying natural ground
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time Settlement of underlying natural ground
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time
Settlement due to burrowing animals
Settlement of underlying natural ground
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time
Settlement due to burrowing animals
Settlement of underlying natural ground
Translational failure
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time
Settlement due to burrowing animals
Settlement of underlying natural ground
Translational failure Rotational failure
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time
Settlement due to burrowing animals
Settlement of underlying natural ground
Translational failure Rotational failure Earthflow
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time
Settlement due to burrowing animals
Settlement of underlying natural ground
Translational failure Rotational failure Earthflow Washout
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
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What can go wrong with earthworks? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time
Settlement due to burrowing animals
Settlement of underlying natural ground
Translational failure Rotational failure Earthflow Washout Scour
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
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What can go wrong with earthworks?
Cutting Failure Translational failure
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What can go wrong with earthworks?
Cutting Failure
Rotational failure Translational failure
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What can go wrong with earthworks?
Cutting Failure
Rotational failure Washout
Translational failure
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What can go wrong with earthworks?
Cutting Failure
Rotational failure Washout
Translational failure
Earthflow
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What can go wrong with earthworks?
Cutting Failure
Rotational failure Washout
Translational failure
Earthflow Rock fall
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What can go wrong with earthworks?
Cutting Failure
Rotational failure Washout
Translational failure
Earthflow Rock fall Burrowing
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Slips, Slides or Flows…? Embankment Failure
Settlement of embankment fill over time
Settlement due to burrowing animals
Settlement of underlying natural ground
Translational failure Rotational failure Earthflow Washout Scour
Shrink / Swell of clay embankments
Cutting Failure
Rotational failure Washout
Translational failure
Earthflow Rock fall Burrowing
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Slips: Gonerby Moor Cutting
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Gonerby Moor Cutting
Nodular Charmouth Mudstone
Charmouth Mudstone
Jericho Gryphaea Bed (Shelly Carb Mudstone)
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Material in Cess Steep well vegetated cutting slope Track issues
Gonerby Moor Cutting
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Gonerby Moor Cutting
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Gonerby Moor Cutting
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Working from home Working offsite Technology requirements
Gonerby Moor Cutting – Further Work
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Working from home Working offsite Technology requirements
Gonerby Moor Cutting – Further Work
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Gonerby Moor Cutting – Further Work
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Gonerby Moor Cutting – Further Work
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Gonerby Moor Cutting – Investigation
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Gonerby Moor Cutting – Monitoring
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Gonerby Moor Cutting – Monitoring
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Gonerby Moor Cutting – Remediation
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Gonerby Moor Cutting – Remediation
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“Slips” – Dorrington Embankment
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Slips (Rotational Failure) Dorrington Emb.
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Slips (Rotational Failure) Dorrington Emb.
Clay and silt, tidal flat deposits
Till, Middle Pleistocene
Mudstone, Peterborough member
Sandstone and siltstone, Kellaways sand member
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Slips (Rotational Failure) Dorrington Emb.
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Slips (Rotational Failure) Dorrington Emb.
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Minor track fault & loss of ballast (November 2013)
Slips (Rotational Failure) Dorrington Emb.
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Minor track fault & loss of ballast (November 2013)
Slips (Rotational Failure) Dorrington Emb.
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Dorrington Embankment December 2013
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Dorrington Embankment
Back scar
Toe bulge and leaning fence
Assumed slip surface
Cess rail dropping, loss of ballast
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Dorrington Embankment
Excavation to install gabions and stone
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Dorrington Embankment
Excavation to install gabions and stone
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Dorrington Embankment
Excavation to install gabions and stone
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Dorrington Embankment
Gabions pushed forwards
Further track fault
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Dorrington Embankment
Gabions pushed forwards
Placed stone
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Dorrington Embankment
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Dorrington Embankment
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Dorrington Embankment
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Dorrington Embankment
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Dorrington Embankment
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Dorrington Embankment
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Dorrington Embankment
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Slides: Woodwalton Cutting
Working from home Working offsite Technology requirements
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Woodwalton Cutting
Oxford Clay
Glacial Till (Diamicton) Aqueduct
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Working from home Working offsite Technology requirements
Woodwalton Cutting
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Working from home Working offsite Technology requirements
Woodwalton Cutting
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Working from home Working offsite Technology requirements
Woodwalton Cutting
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Woodwalton Cutting
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“Slides” – Apperley Lane
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Apperley Lane – translational failure
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Apperley Lane – translational failure
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Apperley Lane – translational failure
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Apperley Lane – translational failure
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Apperley Lane – Initial works
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Apperley Lane – investigation
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Apperley Lane – investigation
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Apperley Lane – Ground model
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Apperley Lane – Ground model
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Apperley Lane – Ground model
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Apperley Lane – temporary support
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Apperley Lane – temporary support
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Apperley Lane – Final repair
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Apperley Lane – Final repair
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Flows: Sutton Bonington, nr Keyworth
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Gunthorpe Formation L. Triassic Gypsiferous Mudstone
Sports Hall
Sand and Gravel Deposits
Soakaway
Flows: Sutton Bonington, nr Keyworth
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Sutton Bonington, nr Keyworth
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Sutton Bonington, nr Keyworth
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Sutton Bonington, nr Keyworth
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Flows: Sutton Bonington, nr Keyworth
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Clarborough derailment (washout)
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Unstone Landslip
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Hatfield Colliery
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Farnley Haugh
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Thank you.