Heavy rain has led to flooding on the railway tracks at Ryde this afternoon (Sunday), bringing Island Line services to a halt.
Monktonmead Brook is extremely high in the area of Rink Road, which has led to storm water flooding onto the tracks.
A nearby industrial yard has also been flooded.
South Western Railway say that due to the flooding, the line is closed between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin.
Train services running to and from these stations have been cancelled.
Disruption is expected until around 15:00 – but as of 14:20 there is still water on the up and down line.
UPDATE @ 15:20 – Cancellations are now expected to continue until 16:15.
Pennyfeathers will be a nice flood zone when it’s built. I grew up in that area and it gets pretty boggy around there in the winter.
Is this your best strategy for going against a housing development you don’t agree with, to post on every news story about how Pennyfeathers will make it all worse? Need to do better than that, all you’re doing is making your campaign a joke. Maybe get out of your armchair and organize some rallies against it.
Many disagree with it for a myriad of reasons if they have a real love for this Island, UNLESS of course they are making money from it.
Should the cap fit, wear it old thing.
I built house adjacent to the land and the ground is full of running sand making it expensive to build on we had to use RJ steels as foundations laid on 8ft x8ft solid reinforced concrete. Sandcroft Avenue was built on such ground and those house soon started to slide towards Monkton Mead. Well Street got its name because the locals would get their water from wells there which were located above the running sand full of water. Ryde rest on banks of running sand which runs right though from the sea front to Ashey downs.
All that tax payers money spent on the prevention of flooding has worked well lol
Well let’s hope the new old trains can float, tar mac it. Let Southern vectis run it
Instead of idiots calling for it to be tar-mac’d, perhaps it would be best to dig it out and create a canal instead to Shanklin. Good for tourists, IF we get any once all the beauty of the Island has been built to destruction by this vile council.
Ensure we ALL vote them OUT next time.
And who are you going to replace them with, they are all the same puppets of the apparatchiks in the back offices who a clever enough to have the power without being elected.
T8, Whilst those current puppet masters cllr’s as you rightly say pull the strings of those corruptly working behind the scenes who will not be removed, the comfortable ‘link’, between those cllrs.and those puppets will have to be ‘reconnected’.
This will require more risk as with a whole new group of cllr’s the backroom puppets will not know who to trust and who, IF ANY, will blow the whistle on any immoral, or illegal practices, payments etc.
Whilst it will never cure any risk of future corruption, it will show to the current group, that we are not as dumb as they hope, and to keep them ‘in’ will just vindicate to them there ways of going on are acceptable, which to most, they are not.
Vote them out, for if the next lot were no better, they are unlikely to be any worse.
While I agree we do need to change this truly dreadful council – your appeal to vote them out will be falling on deaf ears. They can huff and puff all they like but they won’t get off their backsides and get themselves up to the polling booth. As T8Hants says – who are we going to replace them with? Being a councillor attracts a certain type of person……….. hmm
There seem to be plenty of contributors on here that would almost certainly do a better job. The only criteria should be that they have never been involved in politics previously.
The track was recently lowered so that the newer trains will fit under the bridge. Lol. The Environment agency have wasted millions on Monckton mead Brook flood prevention.
If you ‘dig’ a hole, it fills with water in the Winter as the water table rises, particularly so alongside a swelled river. Lucky the old Victorian engineers who covered miles of undulating land of marsh, hills, downs, and even tidal inlets had mechanical machinery, hi tech computers and electric automatic pumps etc…….Oh wait
I knew this would happen when they stupidly lowered the track recently and kept us all awake at night doing. How stupid lowering the track in a flood area.
SACK THE LOT OF THEM If I was aware that lowering the track would cause flooding on the line those idiots who decided to lower the line need sacking. If the new train would not fit under the bridges then get different ones there must be loads of good redundant train which would fit under the bridges. What a load of old plonkers.