In the meantime, a number of train drivers have refused to work extra Sunday shifts and overtime, which has had an impact on services.
with the crew operating out of the town's marina.Most of the volunteers would normally cross the bridge - which has been shut to everything bar cyclists and pedestrians - in order to get there.
Mr Collins said the closure had come as something of a surprise."We only found out when it came out on social media on Friday evening - that was the first we knew of it," he said."We have got 14 seagoing crew and, out of that 14, nine of us live on the other side of the bridge so it is going to impact our response time.
"All of our helms – we've got five helms on the crew - and they all live on the other side of the bridge. We can't launch the boat without the helms so it will slow us down."He said he had no doubt there were safety reasons for the decision but it was going to have an effect.
"It is about a five-mile detour to get to the station by road," he said.
"If there was somewhere we could leave a car at the other side it would help greatly because they could run over the bridge.Some residents were previously told it could be up to a year before they could go home, while six households returned a few days after the incident.
for up to 12 months, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.Residents in the Surrey village of Godstone have been evacuated after two sinkholes opened up this week along large parts of the high street.
The original hole first appeared late on Monday night,Sinkholes are not uncommon in the UK but can sometimes appear suddenly. What might be the causes and should we be more worried about them?