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 #1401093  by george matthews
 
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The main line connecting London and the north has been disrupted by a flash flood. (But there is another pair of tracks parallel to the blocked tunnel so that some trains are probably getting through).

We can note that this modern train did not break up the way older 1930s trains might have done. Passengers from London could travel via Marylebone or St Pancras for trains to the Midlands, or from Kings Cross for Scotland.
 #1401117  by litz
 
Heh, those 1930s trains, made of wood, might have actually floated in a flood ...

Seriously, though, landslides are always going to win.

Amtrak hit a boulder in Vermont, put an entire train on the ground, and the locomotive halfway down the hillside and almost in someone's back yard.
 #1401118  by george matthews
 
In fact, no-one seems to be seriously injured and the train itself seems to be integrally intact. A proof of the superiority of modern designs. A pre-war train - in use into the 1950s - would have killed many passengers.