by DB Colin | Apr 15, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized, Video
Plenty going on between 6.30pm 14th April and 7.30am on the 15th. The video shows in time order firstly the Thank You Key workers IET 802020 on the rear of 802021 followed by HST Class 255 43170 Chepstow Castle and 43098 Walton Castle. Next along is GBRf 66748... 
by DB Colin | Apr 13, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
GBRf 66748 named ” West Burton 50″ brought 4 HST Power cars 43197 43193 43087 43056 out of long term storage down to Laira from Long Marston. It is due to return to Long Marston on Weds 14th to collect further locos and return to Laira Depot. ... 
by DB Colin | Apr 4, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Uncategorized
And what a delight it was to see this private train. Immaculate throughout from the gleaming Class 37 locomotives powering it to the last of the Pullman style coaches provided by the Locomotive Services Limited Company. It is available for hire to wealthy business... 
by DB Colin | Mar 13, 2021 | Article, Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway
Friday 12th March saw the regular monthly visit of the New Measurement Train known by rail fans as the Flying Banana passing through Dawlish twice in each direction. Currently a temporary replacement for one of the normal power cars is a debranded ex LNER locomotive... 
by DB Colin | Mar 7, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, news, Railway, Teignmouth
Throughout Sunday night eight infrastructure trains made their way from Westbury to Parr and beyond St Austell to Burngullow junction. The Cornish main line between Par and Truro was closed from Monday to Friday though the branch lines maintained there train services.... 
by DB Colin | Feb 27, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
Yet another wet and windy week making life difficult with the salty spray affecting the web cams earlier on in the week but fortunately coming up trumps towards the end when we said farewell to the Wavewalker which has dominated the Dawlish scene for the past three... 
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