| Rain event 24/11/24 Posted by Mark A at 22:08, 24th November 2024 |      |
Does anyone have a prediction as to how this event will evolve? It's giving the impression that it has the potential for disrupting things for a day or five. Has the downpour caused serious damage anywhere?
Mark
| Re: Rain event 24/11/24 Posted by Trowres at 23:30, 24th November 2024 | |
It's been hard to keep up with events, but, trying to summarise the state towards the end of Sunday:
- Line closed between Newton Abbot and Plymouth (flooding)
- Exeter-Barnstaple closed (trees)
- Exeter-Okehampton closed (trees)
- Plymouth-Gunnislake (trees)
- Taunton-Castle Cary closed (flooding)
- Weston SM - Bristol closed (flooding)
- Swindon-Bristol Parkway closed (flooding / landslip)
- Swindon-Chippenham closed (flooding both sides of Wootton Bassett Jn)
- Chippenham-Bath closed (flooding)
- Oxford-Worcester closed (flooding)- the 21:36 Paddington-Worcester reversed at Oxford and now planned to run via Swindon and Stroud
- Not sure about Westbury-Reading, although trains are unable to call at Newbury (flooding)
- Birmingham-Bristol blocked. Journeycheck says between Birmingham and Cheltenham (although a freight has just traversed this and maps suggest south of Standish Jn
- Lydney-Gloucester blocked (flooding)
- Great Malvern-Hereford blocked (flooding)
- Hereford-Abergavenny blocked (landslip)
Information gathered from Journeycheck / RTT / Opentraintimes / Tiger. Not always logically consistent.
