New South Wales storms: Sydney train tracks turned into river captured in timelapse

Extreme weather has been battering the east coast of Australia and is expected to last another day

Bardwell Park station is train track is deluged by the flood water

An incredible timelapse video has revealed the raw power of mother nature, showing heavy rains in Australia turning a railway line into a river.

Over the course of the 20-second video, the torrential downpour swept over Sydney’s Bardwell Park station.

The CCTV shows the water levels rapidly rising until it appears to almost be as high as the train platform.

Storms have been causing chaos in the country’s New South Wales state, with people evacuating their homes and power and transport links being badly affected by strong winds and rain. Cars, trees and even homes have been carried away in the flash floods.

Four people have been killed as result of the extreme weather, which has been declared a “natural disaster”.

While around 200 people living along the Georges River were forced to leave their homes after it broke its banks.

It is thought that around 225,000 homes and business are without power as emergency services deal with the calls they are getting.

"To give you a sense of the size and scope - in Dungog [north of Sydney] there's more rain that has come down in the last 24 hours than they have seen in a 24-hour period for the past century," said Mike Baird, the premier of New South Wales, told the BBC.

Although forecasters have said that the worst of the weather has passed, a severe warning is still in place and is expected to last another day.