The line was closed yesterday between Lewisham West and Dulwich Hill for an hour or two due to flooding too. There was a heavy downpour for an hour from around 10:30 that caused local road closures, and around 11:30 I found 2122 at Dulwich Grove unable to run to the terminus. I got the 428 bus back to Petersham and walked home from there.

Dunno how deep the water was that caused the closure, which must have been near DH terminus, but water laying on the ballast at Dulwich Grove was well below rail head level.

When I later caught the tram to Paddy’s from Taverners Hill around 14:00 the line had reopened.

Tony

> On 17 Jun 2019, at 2:34 pm, Matthew Geier matthew@...> wrote:

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> Walking past today I noticed the scrolling signs saying 'Services starting at Convention due to flooding at Capitol Square'. The sign was being ignored by a number of people waiting for non existent services.

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> The water level may have been higher earlier - when I was there it had stopped raining.

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> The Urbos 3 trams are afraid of getting their feet wet. One of the cars has been out of service for many months due to damage incurred by driving it through 10cm deep water. So they (the operator, Transdev) will be quite paranoid as they can't afford to loose another car.

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