by DB Colin | Jun 7, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, Railway
Rail Operations Group Loco 47815 “Lost Boys” came down yesterday to Laira from Leicester to perform the movement of seven HST Mk3 coaches to the storage facility at Papworth Yard at Ely in Cambridgeshire. A couple of weeks ago 47813 “Jack...
by DB Colin | Jun 2, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
The train was available to the public to take a day trip to Bath from Penzance (if you could afford it!) DB’s Nick Campbell was on hand to photograph and video the train as it passed through Teignmouth station. I took up my position on Dawlish sea wall just...
by DB Colin | May 31, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, Railway
This afternoon Friday 31st May saw the Belmond British Pullman train passing along the sea wall en route from London Victoria to Truro on what has become an annual weekend trip to the West Country. Hauled by two Pullman liveried locomotives 67021 and 67024 matching...
by DB Colin | May 4, 2019 | Dawlish Warren, Diesel Specials, General, Railway
Well I know which I think it is. It had been a disappointment that the steam engine, Duchess of Sutherland, was unavailable due to a mechanical problem with a driving wheel and had to be replaced by two West Coast Railways Class 47’s, but so sad to see the...
by DB Colin | Apr 18, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Sea Wall Walk
Another set of eight off lease HST Mk3 coaches on their way to storage at Ely in Cambridgeshire. As before the locomotives powering the train were Rail Operation Group’s 47815 leading 47813. Let’s hope that Cross Country use some of these to replace...
by DB Colin | Apr 14, 2019 | Diesel Specials, Railway, Teignmouth
This Diesel Special was made more interesting to the rail fans as it brought a new class of locomotive to this area in that it is bi-mode like the new Hitachi IET 800’s whose primary power source comes from overhead electricity with a lesser powered diesel...
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