by DB Colin | Jan 24, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth
Colas 66848 with a rake of side tipping MBA wagons loaded with ballast en route from Westbury to Hackney yard at Newton Abbot. Presumably these will be used on Sunday 26th at Teignmouth where track replacement has been programmed. The work starts at 11pm on Saturday...
by DB Colin | Jan 23, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
On 22nd January GBRF Class 50 50049 Defiance and 50007 Hercules set off from their Severn Valley Railway base at Kidderminster. They headed for Wembley Inter City Depot where they collected three Mk3 Caledonian Sleeper coaches and ran in top & tail formation to...
by DB Colin | Jan 12, 2020 | General, Railway, Teignmouth
Network Rail are actively engaged in track replacement in the west country resulting in line closures west of Exeter at weekends with trains replaced by buses. Since Christmas work has been taking place near Lostwithiel in Cornwall and around the Ivybridge area in...
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,...
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