ABSTRACT
Since the construction of the railways in the Thompson River valley in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, there have been many documented large landslides along the Ashcroft Rail corridor. Over this time period there has been a significant amount of work undertaken by both of the main line railway operators, Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) in mitigating the impacts of the movements on their lines. Recently, there have been a number of papers published reviewing the geological framework for landsliding along the corridor, on the mechanisms of landsliding and on the railway’s risk management approach in dealing with landsliding.
