🌧️ As you might expect given the horrendous conditions overnight, we have more news from #Newington landslip and it's not good. We're not going to manage to open the line today at all. Here's a statement from our director, Fiona, and a short thread (on top of the last one...). 
https://twitter.com/NetworkRailSE/status/1352160013448605696
We've removed 280 tons of spoil already, with more being loaded into a train all the time. Bags of ballast (stones) are being laid in a wall to protect the railway. However, the soil - a silty clay - is still moving. /2
It's a deep cutting, cut 13m down into the hills around #Newington , and the slip site is around 30m long, so it's not a small job to keep on top of. For us to be able to run trains safely we need to know that the soil is no longer moving and we're not there yet. /3
The plan is to get the site stabilised by this afternoon and then...watch it. These pegs are there to show us if the cutting side is still moving. If we leave it alone for a good few hours, then run some of our own empty trains past it, and it STILL doesn't move... /4
... then we are in business and good to go tomorrow. However, as Fiona said earlier, even that might not be enough and more drastic action may be needed. So, our advice is to keep watching @Se_Railway + @TLRailUK for travel information and always check before you travel. /5
We're doing our best and the weather is sunny again here in the Garden of England, which gives us a fighting chance of good news. Thank you so much for your patience - we really appreciate it, from everyone at Network Rail Kent.
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