Flooding and rail problems continue to delay travellers A pub is flooded in the village of Severn Stoke, near Worcester. Road and rail travellers continue to endure delays as a result of flooded highways and rail lines, over-running engineering work and a lack of train staff. Passengers travelling with the Southeastern train company on Friday suffered a double whammy of ill fortune. First, services were disrupted due to the late finish of engineering work between Sole Street and Rochester in Kent. Then, a lack of train crew led to problems for early-morning travellers. The Rochester work meant diversions and alterations, while buses had to replace trains between Meopham, Sole Street and Strood. Passengers with East Midlands Trains and Greater Anglia also suffered on Friday after a signalling problem led to delays of up to 60 minutes to rush-hour trains travelling through Norwich. In the north of England, another signalling problem - this one caused by vandalism - at Hough Green in Cheshire led to delays between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Oxford Road via Birchwood. The disruption was expected to last until around 1.30pm. First TransPennine Express and East Midlands Trains were providing buses between Birchwood and Newton-Le-Willows. A freight train derailment on Thursday at Barrow-upon-Soar in the East Midlands continued to cause disruption on Friday. Trains were unable to call at Barrow-upon-Soar, and connecting buses were running between Loughborough and Barrow-upon-Soar. Trains between East Midlands Parkway and Leicester/Peterborough were likely to be delayed. Flooding continued to affect West Country services. The railway line between Exeter St Davids and Tiverton Parkway was expected to re-open some time on Friday but a number of routes in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and the Bristol area were still being disrupted due to flooding. Many roads were flooded, with Worcestershire particularly badly hit yet again. Towns in the county with flooded roads included Worcester, Upton-on-Severn, Bromsgrove and Fladbury. A landslip closed a route in Rothbury, Northumberland, while Brading on the Isle of Wight and Petersfield in Hampshire had flooded roads. There was also flooding on the A51 at Weston in Staffordshire, while a road in Meir Heath, Staffordshire, was closed due to a fallen tree. Sections of the A27 at Chichester and at Lancing in West Sussex were hit by flooding, as was White Way in Alfriston, East Sussex. In east Yorkshire, Front Street in Burton Fleming was closed due to flooding, while high water levels also meant the closure of part of Mill Lane in Stutton, North Yorkshire. Part of the A57 at Dunham-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire was closed due to the floods. In Berkshire, the Sonning Bridge road was closed due to high water levels, while in Oxfordshire places affected by closed roads included Oxford city, Sutton Courtenay and Church Hanborough.