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Stations most frequently closed due to flooding
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Ashley Hill
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Newbury has been closed several times over the last few years.
Pit_buzzer
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Rotherham Central is very prone to flooding but as the trains involved can skip the affected area by running via Masborough it tends not to cause massive disruption other than to Rotherham itself
WL113
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Walsall station flooded many times over the years. There was even a rowing boat provided to rescue the Signalman from Walsall No3 Signal Box..
Tomos y Tanc
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All the stations on the Conwy valley line!
rower40
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The signalling location cases at Malton are on stilts to keep them out of the flood water.
Carnforth, down platform - the subway gets flooded periodically and then there's no access to the platform.
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Also Gathurst down platform - this flooding is caused by inadequate drainage from the field above the platform
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Also Gathurst down platform - this flooding is caused by inadequate drainage from the field above the platform
ChiefPlanner
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Dovey Junction back in the day.
Minstral25
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Earlswood platform 2 underpass floods regularly as does the foot underpass under the railway.
Bletchleyite
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The worst probably being Dolgarrog (which I used for the first time this weekend) which not only ends up closed due to flooding fairly often but also once washed away pretty much completely, so has been rebuilt as a modern affair (with the equipment cabinet for the CIS screen elevated about a metre above the platform to avoid that getting wet).
steamybrian
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Ryde St Johns Road and the line to Ryde Esplanade has flooded on many occasions.
Cross City
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Ryde Esplanade, Northampton, Glasgow Central low level, Ivybridge, Liskeard-Looe, Newbury.
Farringdon on the Thameslink route in Central London has a long history of flooding in the diveunder north of the station where it passes beneath the Circle Line. It also passes beneath the Fleet river, which is in a pipe, there, and is below river level. Way back in time London Transport long kept one of their service steam locomotives able to be fitted with a steam pump to pump floodwaters here up into the Fleet pipe, when this overwhelmed the locally installed pump. I believe this included the Metropolitan steam loco now in the LT museum, for its last duties. There has still been flooding there quite recently.
It's a few years since I was in Ivybridge but what is it that floods? IIRC and confirmed on Streetmap the line is parallel to the contours on a quite steep hillside.
Narrowgauge725
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Sadly for Heatherslaw Light Railway it is becoming a regular, more than once a year, occurrence. The line does run next to the River Till which means once water is on the track everything has to stop. Fortunately, it is only very bad floods actually reaches Heatherslaw station where the stock is stored. Etal Station is actually the highest point on the line so never gets flooded.
Not a station as such but Chipping Sodbury tunnel always seems to flood whenever heavy rainfall is experienced.
Dr_Paul
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Does Clockhouse, on the line to Hayes, still get flooded? I think it was the station most prone to flooding in the London area. The Chaffinch Brook, a little tributary of the Ravensbourne, is the culprit.
That's happened ever since the tunnel was built. There's a longstanding standoff between railway and river authority over discharging drainage into the adjacent watercourses. A recent water authority suggestion was the railway should build a drainage pipeline all the way to the Severn Estuary.
Cross City
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The line between there and Totnes floods consistently when there is particularly bad rain. I think it's around the tunnel under the A38 near South Brent.
1D54
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Gobowen station and surrounding shops etc are notorious for flooding. It doesn't take a great deal of heavy rain to cause closure and and the appearance of sand bags.