StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: storm damage

There's a hole in my harbour, dear lizza, there's a hole ! Thanks to "Storm Ciarán" around 30th October 2023, the 400 year old sea-defences / harbour wall have a 16ft wide hole. Funding is being sought to make repairs and arrangements are being made, by moving boats, for example. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67259624

The damage to the Highley Up starter signal when it was washed away during a landslip caused by a thunderstorm in early June 2007 - it took some months to repair all the damage to the railway.

After having looked at the records for the flow rates on the River South Tyne at the Featherstone gauge - it would seem there was a peak flow event ... The highest level ever recorded at the River South Tyne at Featherstone is 2.72m, reached on Saturday 18th May 2013 at 1:00pm. I think the entrained debris in such a flood would be the likely cause of the demise of this bridge, the flooding was probably due to heavy rain and possibly melting of late season snow off the moors Not my image : fair use & educational purposes.

Trains cancelled while Network Rail sort out a "little" problem of the sea washing away a bit of the trackbed between Whitehaven and Workington. Image from NR, dated 13th March 2020. One of the problems besetting the rail system has been extreme weather events impacting Victorian civil engineering. Not My Image. Fair Use & Comment.

Evidence of the River Tyne spates during December 2015 at Haydon Bridge. Looking downstream from the old A69 bridge. Bank erosion and cobble bed depositions have shuffled the main water flow routes. The houses on the far bank have been flooded, without a closer examination, it is not clear if the recent improvements to the berm / levee were sufficient, or if it was over-topped / damaged by the stormwaters during December 2015

Evidence of the River Tyne spates during December 2015 at Haydon Bridge. Looking downstream from the oldest bridge. Bank erosion and cobble bed depositions have shuffled the main water flow routes. In particular a significant area has disappeared from in front of the sheds over on the other bank.

Evidence of the River Tyne spates during December 2015 at Haydon Bridge. Looking at the oldest bridge. Water level is still very high, and the remains of that tree were in the process of shifting slightly - but it would need only a little more water to lift it over the low flow training wall.

Evidence of the River Tyne spates during December 2015 at Haydon Bridge. Looking downstream from the oldest bridge. Bank erosion and cobble bed depositions have shuffled the main water flow routes.