by Beach Cams Man | Jul 26, 2022 | Brunel Holiday Park, Dawlish Warren
When we launched Brunel Holiday Park Cam in 2019, we were very excited to have another new camera available for our viewers at no extra cost. Even though the broadband is slow all over Dawlish Warren (under 3mb when Dawlish is 70mb), we still believe it’s a...
by DB Colin | Jun 17, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Dawlish Warren, General, news, Railway, Teignmouth
It’s been a busy time along the sea wall with four different types of train. Starting on Monday evening the TRT Track Renewal Train came down from Fairwater Yard at Taunton to replace track in the Dainton area. On Monday its timetable included a stop in Dawlish...
by DB Colin | Jan 18, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Dawlish Warren, Diesel Specials, General, news, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
A busy week on the railway with having six infrastructure trains travelling from Westbury to St Erth from where the branch line to St.Ives is having a lot of the track renewed. Fortunately the outward and empty returns have been in the daytime whereas normally they...
by DB Colin | Dec 14, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Dawlish Warren, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Sea Wall Walk, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
For the last 10 days or so there has been a lot of infrastructure trains from Westbury to the Penzance area where the line between there and Truro has been closed to Passenger traffic for several days. Buses have operated in the meantime. Class 66 and class 70 from...
by DB Colin | Nov 22, 2020 | Dawlish Warren, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
On Friday 20th Nov 2020 the regular 4 weekly Network Rail HST powered test train was unavailable and the stand-in locomotives on a 4 coach replacement set were Colas 37254 “Cardiff Canton” and 37099 “Merl Evans”. The two locomotives are a...
by DB Colin | Sep 6, 2020 | Cameras, Dawlish Beach, Dawlish Warren, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
A busy Saturday for trains on the sea wall. Main interest was the passing of the luxurious Northern Belle Pullman train which was on a day tour from Swansea to Torquay. Headed by 57316 now unnamed, but called FAB1 (which was Lady Penelope’s 6 wheeled Rolls...