I think it’s fingers crossed time. There’s heavy rain/hail due on Exmoor for the rest of the day so it could get a lot worse. That said though the river still has a little way to go before it gets to the point of going over the track and I think that new culvert is helping to empty the pinch point which used to cause the main problems.
Indeed, and the very end of the Rail Engineer article, linked in post #122, does explain that the intention is only to reduce the frequency of threat:
Yes that's what I thought. As long as it mitigates the serious damage, then closing the line on/off every now and then is a very small price to pay.
Poor old Penkridge. Trees on the OHL caused major disruption when I was there last week.
It's called the Trent Valley line for a reason! (although it is usually well above river level...)
I saw that on a local FB page, did not realise that it was the railway
And plans to divert via Yeovil have had to be abandoned owing to flooding that way as well.
I mean I don’t know to be honest, and I’m struggling to get beyond the phrase ‘Deploy the sausage’ today...
- have to say there was a lot of water (and lying snow) on a trip to Liverpool last week. Not been much chance for last weeks offerings to percolate down into a saturated sub soil.
