Ooft that’s not gonna be a quick fix. Landslips are bastards and I’m gonna presume those cables are likely fucked too. They dont like to be stretched.
Land slide is of a bigger scale is it
Hope that gets fixed
As someone from Basingstoke, my parents moved there from London in order to have affordable childcare and properties.
At that time and before, Basingstoke was touted as ***the*** London sattelite town. 45 minute direct rail route (with inflated ticket prices to match), the London work life but a town family life. Or a 15 minute dedicated train to and from Reading if you worked there.
I’m guessing this is indeed going to cause huge disruption, because if I remember correctly the route across those rail lines is the only direct route. I doubt it’ll be impossible to get between Basingstoke and London, but the work commuters using that route will probably have to take a diverted route at some godforsaken morning hour to have a chance of arriving in London on time.
On an unrelated note, Basingstoke gets a lot of jokes and flak for being a, well, ***boring*** town with nothing special about it. Without any sarcasm at all I’d invite people to visit at least once. There won’t be half the shopping options as Reading, but the central shopping centre is far cosier than most malls in the south of England (including Reading), and the town is surrounded by and peppered with countryside fields.
The reason why the shopping centre is so cosy is because it had the unusual luxury of being completely rebuilt in 2002, and actually had designers hired and residents polled about the design.
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Ooft that’s not gonna be a quick fix. Landslips are bastards and I’m gonna presume those cables are likely fucked too. They dont like to be stretched.
Land slide is of a bigger scale is it
Hope that gets fixed
As someone from Basingstoke, my parents moved there from London in order to have affordable childcare and properties.
At that time and before, Basingstoke was touted as ***the*** London sattelite town. 45 minute direct rail route (with inflated ticket prices to match), the London work life but a town family life. Or a 15 minute dedicated train to and from Reading if you worked there.
I’m guessing this is indeed going to cause huge disruption, because if I remember correctly the route across those rail lines is the only direct route. I doubt it’ll be impossible to get between Basingstoke and London, but the work commuters using that route will probably have to take a diverted route at some godforsaken morning hour to have a chance of arriving in London on time.
On an unrelated note, Basingstoke gets a lot of jokes and flak for being a, well, ***boring*** town with nothing special about it. Without any sarcasm at all I’d invite people to visit at least once. There won’t be half the shopping options as Reading, but the central shopping centre is far cosier than most malls in the south of England (including Reading), and the town is surrounded by and peppered with countryside fields.
The reason why the shopping centre is so cosy is because it had the unusual luxury of being completely rebuilt in 2002, and actually had designers hired and residents polled about the design.