CONTRACTORS working at the site of a major landslide near Corbridge are expected to finish reinstatement work within the next four weeks.

Specialist engineers were called to the site at Farnley in January after thousands of tonnes of debris from an embankment collapsed on to the Tyne Valley Railway line and caused disruption to services between Hexham and Prudhoe for four weeks.

Since then, a field off the A695 in the hamlet has become a construction compound, while Network Rail co-ordinated a project to rebuild the embankment and improve drainage to prevent another landslip in the future.

This week, contractors have been on site to reinstate boundary fencing near the edge of the tracks, while a section of the A695 near the site entrance has also been resurfaced.