Landslip-blocked line set to reopen within days

Network Rail says the railway between Bradford and Ilkley will reopen to traffic on 30 June, after it had been blocked by a landslip for almost five months. The slippage at Baildon on 9 February meant that specialist road rail vehicles and other equipment had to be brought in to stabilise the land by removing more than 1,800 tonnes of earth, but the ‘complex environment‘ meant that the original reopening date of mid-March could not be achieved.