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Stations most frequently closed due to flooding

GordonT

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Dalmarnock (Glasgow) must surely be a contender. Was closed for part of this evening for this reason and often seems to succumb after heavy rainfall.
 
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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
 

Lemmy282

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Causes disruption to the Supertram Rotherham Parkgate to Sheffield Cathedral tram-train service though
 

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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..
 

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The signalling location cases at Malton are on stilts to keep them out of the flood water.
 

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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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The Liskeard to Looe Branch line service is suspended and replaced by taxis/ minibus on several days each year due combination of very high tides and river levels, due some of the line skirting the tidal river and estuary areas.
 

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Earlswood platform 2 underpass floods regularly as does the foot underpass under the railway.
 

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All the stations on the Conwy valley line!

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).
 

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Blackwater, due to Platform 2 being inaccessible after heavy rain. The reason was a collapsed culvert built to wash away surface water into the Blackwater River - it's now been repaired, so no issues these days.
 

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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.
 

sharpener

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Ryde Esplanade, Northampton, Glasgow Central low level, Ivybridge, Liskeard-Looe, Newbury.
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.
 
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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.
 

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Lockerbie used to flood regularly but I understand improved drainage means it happens less nowadays.
 

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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.
 

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Not a station as such but Chipping Sodbury tunnel always seems to flood whenever heavy rainfall is experienced.
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.
 

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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.

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.
 

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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.
 

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