The video shows water sparing out a wall where a pipe enters. Obviously not just rainfall, and either that pipe has burst, whether it is carrying mains water or pump water, or the lining has failed and that is groundwater, although I’m not sure the tunnel is deep enough for that much water to enter that quickly from the ground.
Water.
You don't say!
Thames Water engineers are reported working on the issue, which thus sounds like a water supply pipe problem rather than anything else.
How long would it take to put St Pancras International staff on a Thameslink and SE train, and get them to do their shift at Ebbsfleet instead.
That figures for me.
It is now
Probably fairly long, but also all the equipment will have been mothballed, and probably be out of date. Was Ebbsfleet open for post Brexit? If not it might not have the equipment or setup for post Brexit checks.
Is this not far from where a water main burst earlier in the year that caused the A226 road to partly collapse? May of course be totally unconnected.
Covid was the excuse to shut it down, so it hasn’t operated during the later stages of Brexit.
So using Ebbsfleet or Ashford for departures wouldn’t be possible regardless of staffing and training issues.
Or Ashford International...
I would’ve thought the tunnel is too deep for water supply lines. From a schematic I have it seems to be a pipe for the drainage pumps, so perhaps Thames Water is attending because the waste water is dealt with by them and it’s their part of the pipeing that burst?
Possibly mains water for fire protection purposes?
