On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:45:18 -0800 (PST)
GMac wrote:
On 17 Nov, 11:24, CJB wrote:
Details at:

http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/engineeringwork.aspx

CJB.

There's a nice pic of the damaged bridge in one of the local papers:

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/n...3.Bridge_colla
se_sparks_travel_chaos/

Looks like it has been well and truly undermined by the flooded river
and will need some substantial repairs (at least 4 weeks according to
Network Rail).

Seems like someone forgot to do maintenance. A bridge shouldn't be washed away
by some perfectly normal heavy rainfall that we get every year despite what
tabloid reporters with the memory of a goldfish seem to think.

B2003