by DB Neil | Jan 6, 2020 | Cameras, Dawlish Beach, General, Subscribers News, Subscriptions, Technical
Happy New Year and I hope you’ve had a nice break over Christmas. We have some exciting news for 2020 as we are preparing to install our sixth camera, the new ‘Black Swan Cam’. This will be our first-ever point tilt and zoom camera that will cover...
by DB Colin | Dec 24, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
On Sunday 22nd December 2019 Colas sent a locomotive from Doncaster to Par in order to collect a Railvac machine from Fowey Docks the next morning and deliver it to Bescot Yard near Birmingham. The locomotive gained the nameplate “Robin of Templecombe 1938...
by DB Colin | Oct 22, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Dawlish Warren, General, Railway, Steam Specials
Hopefully good news that two Steam Specials have been announced that are intended to run in August 2020. The first is a Saphos tour from Cardiff to Plymouth double headed by a streamlined A4 pacific and with the other loco to be announced later. The A4 will be the...
by DB Colin | Sep 21, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Rough Seas
Strong winds from the southeast and high tide on Friday 20th September brought the usual wave overtopping of the Dawlish sea wall. The video begins with some pedestrians walking the wall from Dawlish Warren into Dawlish who may have got more than they bargained for,...
by DB Colin | Sep 16, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Steam Specials
We have had a special excursion train, either steam or diesel hauled, passing over the Dawlish and Teignmouth sea walls on most weekends since the end of April. The season has now finished with the fourth and final Royal Duchy express with LMS 6233 Duchess of...
by DB Colin | Sep 10, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth
Unusually the CWR train came directly from the production depot at Eastleigh near Southampton and delivered to Goonbarrow Junction near Luxulyan on the Newquay branchline in Cornwall. It was powered top and tail by Colas 66850 David Maidment OBE and 66848. The video...
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