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[[File:Washout at Victoria Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 552055Eymore_Cutting_20160514.jpg |thumb|300px|right| 2007 washout between Eymore Cutting looking east from near Victoria Bridge ]]'''Eymore Cutting''' is situated between [[Bewdley]] and Eyemore Cutting [[Arley]] at the south (Wikimedia CommonsBewdley)end of [[Victoria Bridge]]. It is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).

Eyemore ==Eymoor Wood==<gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">OS_Eymore_Cutting.jpg|OS map of 1905 showing Eymore Cutting is located at </gallery>The extract from the OS 6in map above, published in 1905, shows Eymore Cutting and the immediate surrounding area. The railway runs along the southern edge of the ancient wooded area of '''Eymore Wood'''. The cutting begins to the south (Bewdley) end east of Eymore Farm and deepens as it curves and descends towards Victoria Bridge at a [[Victoria BridgeGradient profile]]of 1 in 145. The site was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest signal post (SSSI"S.P.") by English Nature due to immediately before Victoria Bridge is the unusual geology, a rare occurrence of coal-bearing mudstones appearing at surface level. Unfortunately this geology has proved less than stable over distant signal on the yearsapproach to Arley station.

Wet weather [[Trimpley Private Road Bridge]] was constructed when the railway was built in order to provide access to the winter of 2000-2001 resulted in a rockfall on Wood from Eymore Farm which was situated to the west side south of the cutting. Although the rocks A stream which blocked runs through the line were quickly removed, Wood is carried underneath the cutting side remained unstable and English Nature required the SVR to engineer through a solution to the problem which would not damage the siteVictorian syphon culvert. While this was developed This is included as item SVR040* in the [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2000-2009#2001 | Spring 2001Wyre Forest District Council Local Heritage List]] a watchman was permanently on duty , which notes it as on running days to warn approaching trains if necessarybeing an "extremely unusual feature".<refgroup="note">SVR News 135The Local Heritage List identifies the location as "Eyemore Cutting". This alternate spelling also occasionally appears elsewhere.</ref>. English Nature rejected The positions of the use of a retaining wall or additional ‘gabions’ to those already in place, road bridge and opted for the cutting wall to stream can both be re-profiled at a shallower angle<ref>SVR News 136</ref>seen on the map extract.

Another rockfall occurred The [[Trimpley Reservoirs & Waterworks]] were constructed in 1964 and commissioned in 1967.<ref>[[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2000-2009Bibliography#2005 Books|February 2005Marshall (1989)]]p. 95.</ref> The land south of the Farm buildings is now the main reservoir, with the Waterworks This required further re-profiling situated on the area of land between the wood and the railway. Water from the reservoir is pumped to the waterworks via [[Trimpley Pipe Bridge]] which now also spans the cutting wall<ref>SVR News 150</ref>a short distance east of the road bridge.

The pictures of the cutting below are all looking west (towards Arley) and progressively travelling in that direction: <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">Bridge_13_20150528.jpg |Trimpley Pipe Bridge, with the road bridge visible beyond (May 2015)Bridge_14_20150528.jpg| Trimpley Private Road Bridge (May 2015)Culvert 81 Paul Pearson.jpg|The Victorian culvert (Paul Pearson)Eymore_Cutting_20200912.jpg | Approaching Victoria Bridge with Arley distant signal just visible</gallery> ==Geology==On 19 March 1991 Eymore Cutting was designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) by English Nature (now known as Natural England) due to its unusual geology. The designation summary is as follows:<ref>[http://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/PDFsForWeb/Citation/1002390.pdf Natural England designation]</ref>  <div style="background:#fcfcfc; border-style:solid; border-width:2px; border-color:#895920; margin:20px 10px; padding:5px;">SITE NAME: EYMORE RAILWAY CUTTING<br>DISTRICT: WYRE FOREST<br>SITE REF: 15 WK3<br>Status: Site at Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) notified under Section 28 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as amended<br>Local Planning Authority: HEREFORD & WORCESTER COUNTY COUNCIL, WyreForest District Council<br>National Grid Reference: SO 767792<br>Area: 0.26 (ha.) 0.64 (ac.)</div> The cutting is notable as the only available exposure of fossiliferous Eymore Farm marine band, a Bolsovian Substage rock.<ref>[https://www.wyreforestdc.gov.uk/media/109002/PD09-sa-scoping-appendix-b-final.pdf Wyre Forest District Local Development Framework Core Strategy Development Plan Document Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report July 2007] (Retrieved 11 November 2019)</ref><ref>[https://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=AGMB The BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units] (Retrieved 11 November 2019)</ref>. It is a rare occurrence of coal-bearing mudstones appearing at surface level, first described in 1946.<ref>C.J. Cleal and B.A. Thomas, British Upper Carboniferous Stratigraphy, Springer Science & Business Media (2013), pp. 139-141 via [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ew9JCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA330&ots=0GcB6fqii1&dq=Eyemore%20Cutting&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q=Eyemore%20Cutting&f=false Google books]</ref>  Unfortunately the cutting's geology has proved less than stable over the years.  * On 9 March 1861 during construction of the railway, a [[Railway Navvies of the SVR#Accidents|navvy was injured in the cutting]] when a 20lb clod of earth fell on him from a height of 20-40ft. <ref>Berrow's Worcester Journal, reported in [[Bibliography#Books|Marshall (1989)]] p. 47.</ref> *In summer 1985 (before the area was designated as an SSSI), work was deemed necessary to remove some unstable rock. Part of the cutting was strengthened using redundant concrete pads from the former BR yard at Kidderminster.<ref>SVR News 79</ref> *Wet weather in the winter of 2000-2001 resulted in a rock fall on the west side of the cutting. Although the rocks which blocked the line were quickly removed, the cutting side remained unstable and English Nature required the SVR to engineer a solution to the problem which would not damage the site. While this was developed in [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2000-2009#2001 | Spring 2001]] a watchman was permanently on duty on running days to warn approaching trains if necessary.<ref>SVR News 135</ref> English Nature rejected the use of a retaining wall or additional 'gabions' to those already in place, and opted for the cutting wall to be re-profiled at a shallower angle<ref>SVR News 136</ref>. *Another rock fall occurred in [[Severn Valley Railway Timeline 2000-2009#2005 |February 2005]]. This required further re-profiling of the cutting wall<ref>SVR News 150</ref>. *The ground between Victoria Bridge and the entrance to Eyemore Eymore Cutting was one of the areas affected the [[2007 Storm Damage | freak storms in June and July 2007]]. The earlier rockfalls occurred in the cutting, just beyond the signal in the picturebelow. <gallery mode=packed heights=200px style="text-align:left">Washout at Victoria Bridge - geograph.org.uk - 552055.jpg | 2007 washout between Victoria Bridge and Eymore Cutting (Wikimedia Commons)</gallery> In 2009 the condition of the SSSI was surveyed and assessed by Natural England as 'Unfavourable'. The assessment noted that "''The features are only visible from the trackbed of the railway line. Vegetation growth has occurred and obscures some features. Rock-netting has been applied to southern cutting wall and obscures views of the features and denies physical contact with, and collecting from, the features on that wall. Small landslips on the northern cutting side are more of a hazard to the line than damaging to the SSSI, unless they result in the installation of further rock-netting.''"<ref>[https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/ReportUnitCondition.aspx?SiteCode=S1002390&ReportTitle=Eymore%20Railway%20Cutting%20SSSI Natural England]</ref>  ==See also==*[[From The Window]] ==Notes==<references group="note"/>

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