Network Rail engineers and suppliers are on site and working to repair a landslip in Surrey that closed the railway between East Grinstead and Hurst Green on Tuesday.

The line had to be blocked after a 10-metre stretch of a 7-metre-high embankment slipped away from the railway, around half a mile towards London from Lingfield station*. In addition, cracks spread six metres on either side of the slip site, leading to fears it could get worse if action wasn’t taken immediately

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