Newbury Station

Location

Photograph donated and reproduced by kind permission by Koltregaskes.

Well I had an interesting day yesterday (as did many others in the UK). I was working out of the Newbury Business Park yesterday (not my usual place of work), it had been raining (and raining *hard*) since I woke up at 5am. News filtered through the office at about 1pm or a little earlier that Vodafone's HQ has been evacuated as it was flooded and had lost power. People were being sent home as if they couldn't get home now they would definitely not be able to later.

So I decided to bugger off once it was likely that everyone would be sent home. Stood at the bus stop for 20mins waiting for the VF shuttle bus but nothing. I could hear police and ambulance sirens going back and forth. The guy next to me had been there for 40mins so definitely something was wrong as they are normally bang on time. The rain stopped just before 2pm so I chose to walk to the train station and by walking around the corner I could see why there were no buses - cars, lots of them, not moving at all all the way down the A4! On route to Newbury station a colleague walking by said Thatcham station was completely under water so I headed for Newbury station to check if I could get home but found this...

You can just about see the track, so that's a whole lot of water. Guess what, I had to walk home (next pic)...