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Flooding from burst water main disrupts trains from East Croydon station

1:15pm Monday 1st August 2011 in Croydon Mudslide

Flooding from burst water main disrupts East Croydon trains (Picture: Network Rail) Flooding from burst water main disrupts East Croydon trains (Picture: Network Rail)

Train services between East Croydon and Purley are severely disrupted due to flooding from a burst water main.

All lines are blocked and there are currently no trains running southbound from East Croydon station however, northbound services are running as normal.

There is a shuttle train service in operation between Brighton and Gatwick Airport, between Uckfield and Oxted and between Sanderstead and Oxted.

A spokesman for Southern Railway said: “We are arranging rail replacement buses between East Croydon and Three Bridges, between Oxted and East Croydon, between Redhill and Oxted and between Purley and East Croydon.

"We are also arranging shuttle buses between Uckfield and Haywards Heath.”

Customers have been advised short notice alterations, cancellations and delays of up to 90 minutes can be expected.

The burst water pipe is understood to be in Stanhope Road, Croydon.

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Comments(4)

Hawkeye448 says...
10:02pm Mon 1 Aug 11

No idea why this landslide onto the track took this long. This 'burst water main' has been pouring down the park at the top of this bank since 2009.

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yamkin says...
3:08pm Tue 2 Aug 11

With the dwarf star Elenin and Nibiru following behind in our solar system which are both causing and going to cause more chaotic disturbances around Earth, what chance have we got in the SE of UK if a burst pipe causes so much disaster.

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Crafty Frances says...
4:36pm Tue 2 Aug 11

It show again that nothing gets done to anything until it causes a to actually come down on a major transport rail link. then everyone asks why.

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meash1990 says...
11:39am Wed 3 Aug 11

Hawkeye448 wrote:
No idea why this landslide onto the track took this long. This 'burst water main' has been pouring down the park at the top of this bank since 2009.
Hi Hawkeye. Has there really been water coming down the bank since then!?! Thats ridiculous! I am at uni and I want to do a project on this (Ive been studying slope stability) and I'd love any info you have to add to my project if possible. If you have any photos of the site before that would be awesome. Thanks alot!

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