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... 
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...