Chicken Curve Collapse

In this section of the site we will be grouping together all the news items and updates relating to the Chicken curve collapse. We realise everyone is keen to know what is going on and we want to make the news as easy to find as possible. The news items/updates are listed below.

• Funding update 21 May 2012
• Chicken Curve Update 17th May 2012.
• Chicken Curve Update 2nd May 2012.
• Chicken Curve Update 19th April 2012.
• Chicken Curve Update 2nd April 2012.
• Chicken Curve Update 19th March 2012.
• Chicken Curve Update 8th March 2012.
• Chicken Curve Update 24th February 2012
• Work starts on Chicken Curve  posted on 06/02/2012
  Down came the rain but at least the snow that fell over the weekend of 4 and 5 February didn't stick around to delay the start of work to repair the embankment just north of Winchcombe station, known as 'Chicken Curve'. ITN News was present to film the occasion.
• Digging for victory: Chicken Curve contracts signed - posted on 21 January 2012
  Work is about to start on repair of the collapsed railway embankment at the so-called 'Chicken Curve' just north of Winchcombe station, following signing of contracts at Winchcombe station on Thursday, 19 January.
• Chicken Curve Update - posted 25th November 2011
• Chicken Curve Update  - posted 7th November 2011
• Chicken Curve update - posted on 20th October 2011
• Chicken Curve update - October - posted on 5th October 2011
• The 'Chicken Curve' embankment repair  - posted on 30th August 2011
  The GWSR Plc Board has received recommendations for the next stages in the repair of the so-called Chicken Curve embankment failure, just north of Winchcombe station.
• Chicken Curve update - posted 4th May 2011
• Then and now on Chicken Curve - how the Great Western dealt with landslips - posted 7th February 2011
  Here are some photographs that really do bring home the fact that Chicken Curve - which suffered a catastrophic failure in January 2011 - has given problems to the Honeybourne Line's predecessors over the years: infact, as far back as the 1920s. 
• Chicken Curve then and now - posted 23rd January 2011
  Here is a variation on our occasional 'then and now' series, showing pictures by Paul Stratford of Chicken Curve - and the change in the embankment is startling.
• Chicken Curve stuffed! - posted 21st january 2011
  Not the melodramatic title of a bizarre hen-house murder mystery but the true story of how disaster struck the railway this January. This feature explains a little of the history of the so-called Chicken Curve and the dramatic events that have again severed the line.