by DB Colin | Aug 19, 2018 | General, Railway, Steam Specials
A welcome return to an unassisted steam express locomotive and today certainly showed the difference between an engine coasting with the diesel providing the power and the excitement of an engine in top class condition thundering along the sea wall with a 12 coach...
by DB Colin | Aug 16, 2018 | General, Railway
Unusually the test train stopped in Teignmouth station for half an hour last night which gave Nick chance to photograph it as well as taking a video which gives a better look at the 9701 ultrasonic test train. It had come down from Bristol High level siding and was...
by DB Colin | Aug 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
At the weekend a book launch was held in the Marine Tavern by Colin J Marsden the renowned Railway author and editor of Modern Locomotives magazine. What Colin doesn’t know about the modern railway scene isn’t worth knowing and this slim book or bookazine...
by DB Colin | Aug 9, 2018 | General, Railway
Colas 70817 passed through Dawlish and Teignmouth last evening with a trainload of continuous welded rail which it was taking to offload in the St. Germans-Saltash area in Cornwall. Fortunately it came a little early at 8.37pm whilst there was still a bit of daylight....
by DB Colin | Aug 7, 2018 | General, Railway
For the third week running the high output ballast cleaning train is again operating between Teignmouth and Newton Abbot. This week it is programmed in for Mon/Tues/Weds nights and due to pass through Dawlish at 10.30pm and return sometime in the middle of the night....
