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Repairs have been completed to fix a landslide which forced a railway line to close. The land fell away next to the line at Newington near Sittingbourne on February 23 following days of heavy rainfall leading to a 40 metre-long crack along the trackbed. The six-mile stretch between Rainham and Sittingbourne has been out of action since to allow Network Rail engineers to stabilise the slippage and rebuild the embankment. Network Rail’s geotechnical and structures experts discovered land slipped about five metres down, prompting the closure. Test trains will be running today after work was compl…

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