by DB Colin | Jul 1, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, Railway, Steam Specials, Teignmouth
Saturday was the Mazey Day celebration in Penzance and every year a special excursion comes down from the Birmingham area. This year it was to have been Deltic D9009 Alycidon but unfortunately this loco is under repair after suffering an electrical flashover earlier...
by DB Simon | Jun 28, 2019 | Article, Diesel Specials, General, news, Railway, Steam Specials
This weekend gives us a treat of two tours passing the cameras. Here are the full details. Saturday 29th June see’s the visit of two class 37 locos hauling Pathfinder tours Mazey Day Cornishman from Tame Bridge Parkway to Penzance. Times past Dawlish are booked...
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...
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