Network Rail has started building a new rockfall shelter to protect trains along a vulnerable section of the Dawlish sea wall between Holcombe and Dawlish.
The new 209-meter extension will join the previous extension that was built 100 years ago. This section will be open sided rather than a full tunnel and should be complete by the end of 2023.
Not quite as tide restricted as the Dawlish wall but much more dependent on numerous railway possessions. It is another very challanging civil engineering project on the Devon coast, would have loved to have worked on them instead of roads, bridges and sewage work contructions.