Railway through Colwall reopens after repairs

10:17am Wednesday 26th September 2012 in News By Robert Hale

PROBLEM: The hole by the track at Colwall PROBLEM: The hole by the track at Colwall

RAIL services beween Great Malvern and Hereford have been resumed following repair work at Colwall.

A hole appeared in the track on Monday morning when a clay pipe collapsed following heavy rain. Network Rail engineers worked overnight on Monday and Tuesday to solve the problem.

Engineers have imposed a 20mph speed restriction on the line while they monitor the repairs. Normal line speed is 70mph.

The first train service to use the line this morning was the 4.29am Hereford-Ledbury service, which arrived at Ledbury three minutes early.

Network Rail is expecting to operate full services today, although the line will be monitored until further notice to see if the ballast moves before re-introducing normal line speeds.

Comments(1)

TANNER1 says...
2:16pm Wed 26 Sep 12

According to national press My disruption to my Train journeys to work, are because of Badgers. I have not heard anything locally about Badgers. Do you think it could be a conspiracy against them. First TB in cattle, then they will be to blame for the problem in our rail system, do you think it could be their fault about the recession....what about global warming, it must be those pesky Badgers to blame....Its really good now we have some action on the mysterious hole in Collwall (Malvern to Hereford rail line), and railtrack are looking into it

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