Passenger Train on Flooded Track

From the Arthur Trevena collection of photographs. A Great Western Railway passenger train travelling down a flooded track at Creech Cutting, Devon, 1894. Water from the nearby river had flooded the line.

The train could still travel along the track even though the water was deep. However, this was risky. There was a danger that part of the track or ballast had been washed away and the train would become derailed.