Hove fire crews spend night pumping gallons of floodwater from railway line

Fire crews from Hove spent the night pumping gallons of water out of a field and from a railway line in Horsham.

East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service said: “On (Tuesday) 7 January crews from Hove responded with a high-volume pump to a West Sussex flooding incident at Worthing Road, Horsham, near the Boar’s Head pub.

“Floodwater had affected a nearby field and railway line.

“The high-volume pump was deployed to the scene and crews from Hove worked through the night pumping large volumes of flood water from the field into a nearby stream after lines at Horsham railway station were submerged.”