The railway between Redhill and Tonbridge will reopen for the start of service on Monday morning (15 April) after Network Rail’s engineers successfully completed emergency landslip repairs at Bough Beech, near Edenbridge in Kent.
Over the past two weeks, engineers have worked tirelessly to install 91 sheet piles – 8m long sheets of metal – and strengthened the railway embankment over a 100 metre section with soil nails (steel rods) underpinning the railway, after the embankment had become saturated and weakened as a result of the impact of recent heavy rain.
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