Stabilisation of an existing railway embankment using small diameter minipiles and large diameter pin piles at kitson wood, todmorden

This paper describes the design and installation of an embankment stabilisation scheme carried out for Railtrack plc during 1998. The running rails over this section of embankment were showing signs of significant movement during 1997 and a track speed restriction (TSR) of 5 mph had been imposed. A combined solution...