by DB Colin | Sep 30, 2018 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway
Freightliner 66591 with the returning CWR (continuous welded rail) train on Dawlish sea wall. The rear of the train is just passing the Dawlish Beach San Remo camera which can just be spotted above the gate to the left of the pampas grass. Apologies to the driver who...
by DB Colin | Sep 26, 2018 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway
The leaf season is on us again and the first passing of the RHTT was this afternoon as it made its way to its St Blazey base for the next few months. Today locomotives 66200 and 66120 and the water tanks were clean and bright but in a few days they will be lathered in...
by DB Colin | Sep 15, 2018 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway
Today we saw one of the dedicated claret liveried Royal train locomotives 67006 “Royal Sovereign” powering an excursion from Letchworth to Paignton. The route was via the East coast main line which it joined at Hitchin before calling in at Stevenage,...
by DB Colin | Sep 14, 2018 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway
The 1z74 Winchester to Par Pullman train topped & tailed by WCR 57314 & 57313 could be seen today passing over the Dawlish Sea wall mid morning and will be returning through Dawlish at 7.25pm....
by DB Colin | Sep 13, 2018 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway
For the first time since Colas took over the contract to deliver the cement powder from Aberthaw to Moorswater the train was powered by a Class 66 locomotive rather than the usual Class 70. The change went smoothly enough as the 66 kept good time on the 21 loaded PCA...
by DB Colin | Sep 6, 2018 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway
Colas 70810 passed through at 10.45 am with the empty PCA cement tanks that it had delivered full the day before to the Tarmac works at Moorswater Nr Liskeard. In an unusual move the weekly clay train from St Blazey brought down the first part of the consignment...
