🌧️ We're sorry to say that despite working through the night, the landslip at #Newington has defeated our best efforts and we won't be able to get the railway open again today. The rain has kept up and continues to soak the spoil, which slips as fast as we can cart it away. /1 
We're bringing more equipment to site now,on top of the digger you can see here working overnight, to reach further back into the slip and remove the soil that keeps sliding towards the railway. /2
The good news is this is what geotechnical engineers call a "transitional failure" which is effectively the failed top layer of soil surfing downhill on the lower layer. That means once we cart the spoil away and put a row of ballast bags in place to protect the line... /3
... we should be able to reopen it safely, and then come back later in the year to get a permanent fix in place. Some of the other slips we've seen in Kent in the past few years have been much deeper failures, which take longer to fix. /4
In the meantime, please accept our apologies for this disruption and keep an eye on @Se_Railway and @TLRailUK for travel information while buses replace trains between #Faversham and #Gillingham. Once again, we hope to get this open again for tomorrow (Thursday). Thank you.
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