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... 
by DB Colin | Feb 11, 2021 | Article, Dawlish Beach, General, news, Railway, Rough Seas, Uncategorized
Morning broke with a freshening wind and choppy sea. Even though it was an hour and a half after the 6.05am medium height tide, the spray from the waves was breaking well over the wall and over the railway tracks. Normally Cross Country voyagers do not operate in such... 
by DB Colin | Feb 9, 2021 | Article, Cameras, Dawlish Beach, General, news, Railway, Rough Seas, Storms, Weather
The sea was splashing a bit around high tide at 16.55 sending spray over the sea walls and gave an opportunity for Cross Country engineers to see how a modification to a Voyager roof with a silica film to prevent water ingress fared. This was nowhere near how bad... 
by DB Colin | Feb 6, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, General, news, Railway, Steam Specials, Teignmouth
In February’s Railway Magazine it was reported that subject to covid restrictions there will be a Great Britain X1V steam hauled railtour this year. It begins with Tornado on April16th from Kings Cross to Edinburgh. After touring Scotland with different motive... 
by DB Colin | Jan 26, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, General, news, Railway
Following the recent track replacement on the St.Ives branch the civil engineering department is starting to collect the old used ballast from the worksite. DB Cargo were entrusted with the first load sending 66020 and 66107 top and tailing ten empty box wagons on the... 
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