FLOODING is causing problems on the railways with services suspended and some passengers being warned not to try to travel.

It is causing chaos at Southampton Airport Parkway where 200 people are queuing to get on replacement buses.

The line at Brockenhurst is flooded while the weather has also caused signalling issues, causing the suspension of the service between the village and Bournemouth.

Efforts to run a rail replacement bus service between Brockenhurst and Bournemouth have also been thwarted by flooding on roads.

A spokesman for South West Trains said: “Hampshire police have also advised us that the majority of roads through the New Forest are flooded, and as a result we are unable to run any replacement road transport between Brockenhurst and Bournemouth at this time. 

"Intermediate stations between Brockenhurst and Bournemouth will not be served, and passengers for these stations are advised not to travel at this time. 

“South West Trains and CrossCountry have agreed mutual ticket acceptance via any reasonable routes.

“We are attempting to arrange express buses to run between Southampton Airport Parkway at present.

"If you are travelling between London, Bournemouth and Wemouth you should change at Southampton Airport Parkway and travel on rail replacement buses to Bournemouth, for onward rail connections towards Weymouth."

Passengers have been queuing up for replacement bus services at Southampton Airport Parkway for at least an hour and a half and said in that time only six buses have come.

Elizabeth Collier, 69, retired, had been travelling to Bournemouth from Birmingham and said: "The lack of information is an absolute disgrace - nobody has been along the queue to tell us what is happening.

"No one has told us anything, I know this is unplanned but it is not very good not letting us know what's is happening and how long it will be.

"There has been no unpleasantness in the queue it is all very British but this is very frustrating."

Eve McAlpine, 24, a professional dancer had been travelling home from Birmingham and said: "We only found out about this three stops before and thy gave us more information when we were on the train than they are here.

"We feel a bit like cattle and I have had to pay a ridiculous amount of money for the train ticket, I could have bought flights abroad for that amount.

"Now we have got to wait for a bus in the cold when we paid for train travel."

Stacey Williams, 26, a nurse had been travelling to Weymouth and said: "I'm meant to be home at 4.15pm and I'm going to miss my shift because we don't know when we are going to get there.

"I am not going to get paid so I'm going to try and get compensation from the train company."