by DB Colin | Jul 30, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, General, Kings Walk, Railway, Teignmouth
A round up of some of this weeks freight trains seen on the sea walls of Dawlish and Teignmouth. For those of tender years the title comes from a song sung by Nancy Whiskey with the Chas McDevitt Skittle group which was a hit when I was a youth in 1962. You can hear...
by DB Colin | Jul 19, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
On Saturday 18th July a welcome sight on the sea wall was the first rail charter excursion this year which ran from Peterborough to Paignton. The locomotive and coaches were a credit to Statesman Rail Tours who had organised the tour. It was intended to use two locos...
by DB Colin | Jul 14, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth
First up last night was the weedkiller Windhoff Multi Purpose Vehicle top and tailed by DB Cargo 66107 & 66015 seen in the video from the San Remo and Blenheim cameras and by Nick at Teignmouth as it entered the station. There has been a change in the HOBC train...
by DB Colin | Jul 11, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
Plenty to see on a lovely sunny morning on the Dawlish and Teignmouth sea walls.The video starts with a Castle set racing along the Teignmouth sea wall passing Sprey Point and will be seen again as it reaches Dawlish. On its first time of running over the wall in its...
by DB Colin | Jul 4, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
There has been plenty of interesting loco hauled trains this week. The HOBC, High Output Ballast Cleaner has been working from Monday to Thursday travelling along the sea wall en route to Totnes where it reverses and sets off on the up line to the worksite between...
by DB Colin | Jun 23, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth
This behemoth of a train passed along the sea walls and through Dawlish and Teignmouth last night, Monday 22nd June. It is impressively lengthy and much longer than any other train that we see here. It is currently based in Fairwater yard in Taunton and will be coming...
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