The Archive · 1928

Railway Line Closed Through Bridge Collapse

Jan, 3, From all parts of the country continue to come reports of the damage and difficulties caused by the Moods.

The most notable happer day was the collapse of a the London and Nori Railway, near Edmont main line from Cambridge, A mail train had only just passed the bridge. The has been closed to trafic causing considerable disorganization, which would have been worse existence of an old loop line which has not been used for years, due to which it was Botaible to' divert traffic for Cambridge.

Thames Six or Seven Times Its Natural Width Jan. 4.

The flood situation is better today in some areas and worse in others.

Dartford, in Kent, is one of the new areas badly affected. The River Darenth suddenly burst its hanks during the night and to-day' there were four feet of water i some of the streets of Dartford.

Some 200 houses are flooded and their oecupante are living in bed-

The Themes continues to rise and places where it has overflowed its banks it is six or seven times its normal width.

At Clapton in East London many houses are marooned as the result of the overflowing of the River Lea, tary of the Thames,—British Wireless through Reuter,

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