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ttaskmaster said:
What, the wet wipes damaging expensive machinery and private property... or the trains derailing?

In both cases, yes they're genuine concerns.
The damage is a comparatively common occurrence and we have teams whose sole role is to clean out the screens, weirs, cloughs and other ancillary operating features that regularly get clogged. Private assets are harder, as we have limited rights of access and it's not uncommon for a private pumping station to give out.

The train derailment itself has not happened yet (in our area, anyway), but it is a very real concern and why we must accept unlimited legal liability when working trackside on railway assets. We did once have a burst a few years ago, which was actually worse than risk models forecast, and ended up completely flooding a cutting with the six main lines from London to the South. That took about 3 days to sort out and cost £90 million in penalties.
I'm sure the DM were all over it at the time, but we're not really racist so they'd have had very little to report.
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I was referring to the trainline, mental how things like this can have such an affect to seemingly disconnected parts of the infrastructure!
 
Jimbeam3678 said:
I was referring to the trainline, mental how things like this can have such an affect to seemingly disconnected parts of the infrastructure!
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Well, think about it - Pipe splits, bursts or otherwise fails. The water then starts washing away the soil around it. This very quickly creates a void, which eventually loses structural stability and collapses, taking out whatever is above it. The deeper the pipe, the larger the void and the wider the hole up on the surface.
We had a spate of the news reporting on sinkholes appearing in roads not so long ago - That's the cause... now imagine that happens to a track with trains going 125mph!
 
ttaskmaster said:
Well, think about it - Pipe splits, bursts or otherwise fails. The water then starts washing away the soil around it. This very quickly creates a void, which eventually loses structural stability and collapses, taking out whatever is above it. The deeper the pipe, the larger the void and the wider the hole up on the surface.
We had a spate of the news reporting on sinkholes appearing in roads not so long ago - That's the cause... now imagine that happens to a track with trains going 125mph!
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Like most things, it’s obvious when it’s spelt out like you have above :p Genuinely interesting so thanks for sharing.
 
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Asda's Shades extra long (360 sheets a roll). Decently thick enough to avoid "getting in touch with one's inner self"
 
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