ROUGH WEATHER
STURMS IN BRITAIN WIDESPREAD FLOODING (ißec. 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 24. Many rivers overflowed their banks, made roads impassable, and held up railway services in many parts of England at the week-end, following torrential. rain and gales in the past five days. Water six feet deep flowed through the South Wales town of Mountain Ash. Its two railway stations were flooded above platform level. Many persons were rescued from houses in Devon, where the rivers Dart and Mardle overflowed. A landslide of several tons of earth on the railway line at Pontypridd caused the derailment of an empty train. Two small steamers were disabled by heavy seas off the English coast, and are reported being towed to port after one sent out an SOS early to-day.
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Evening Star, Issue 25958, 25 November 1946, Page 7
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128ROUGH WEATHER Evening Star, Issue 25958, 25 November 1946, Page 7
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