Trackbed NE of Exeter St Davids

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[RailCornwall]

After today's 10 hours of constant rain (in Cornwall anyway), the usual news would be of flooding, causing disruption, on the track north of Exeter SD, can't remember news of any significant work being done to alleviate this flooding, has there been or are FGW^▸ (First Great Western) etc. just getting lucky nowadays?

[old original]

If I remember rightly, the main problem a few years ago was at Stafford(s?) bridge and was caused by the river underscoring the supports/bank threatening collapse of the bridge itself. Remedial work was done to correct this and prevent any further errosion.

[eightf48544]

Maybe that as it's been so dry that Exemoor is absorbing a lot of the rain and has not yet started releasing into the Exe. If this rain continues however, Exemoor will be saturated and the extra water will run straight into the river. Then there might be problems because rail lines are not much higher than the river bank.

[The SprinterMeister]

If I remember rightly, the main problem a few years ago was at Stafford(s?) bridge and was caused by the river underscoring the supports/bank threatening collapse of the bridge itself. Remedial work was done to correct this and prevent any further errosion.

There are two massive drainage ducts through the main line embankment just beyond the point ends at Cowley Bridge Jn, more or less at the point where the embankment failed during the 2001 flooding. Any surface water that backs up against the embankment from the fields on the down side therefore runs straight through the ducts and into the river Exe which removes the tendency for the embankment to be undermined.