Weekend Specials June 29th-30th 2019

by DB Colin | Jul 1, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, Railway, Steam Specials, Teignmouth

Saturday was the Mazey Day celebration in Penzance and every year a special excursion comes down from the Birmingham area. This year it was to have been Deltic D9009 Alycidon but unfortunately this loco is under repair after suffering an electrical flashover earlier...

Had enough rain? On Sunday a Tornado is forecast!

by DB Colin | Jun 19, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Dawlish Warren, General, Railway, Steam Specials, Teignmouth

Fortunately in this case the tornado is LNER Class A1 60163 Tornado due Sunday 23rd June. This is the new build locomotive which first appeared in 2008. The original class of 49 were built at Doncaster and Darlington in 1948/9 but unfortunately were all scrapped by...

Rail News 10th June 2019

by DB Colin | Jun 10, 2019 | General, Railway, Steam Specials, Teignmouth

This month is full of treats for railway fans with no less than four steam powered rail tours and a diesel excursion to be seen passing through Dawlish and Teignmouth. The first this last Saturday with LNER A4 60009 Union of South Africa was slightly spoiled by it...

Belmond British Pullman Day 2

by DB Colin | Jun 2, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth

The train was available to the public to take a day trip to Bath from Penzance (if you could afford it!) DB’s Nick Campbell was on hand to photograph and video the train as it passed through Teignmouth station. I took up my position on Dawlish sea wall just...

The Springtime Cornishman

by DB Colin | Apr 14, 2019 | Diesel Specials, Railway, Teignmouth

This Diesel Special was made more interesting to the rail fans as it brought a new class of locomotive to this area in that it is bi-mode like the new Hitachi IET 800’s whose primary power source comes from overhead electricity with a lesser powered diesel...

Loco hauled freight and Infrastructure trains.

by DB Colin | Mar 15, 2019 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth

A look at some of the freight and infrastructure loco hauled trains that have passed over the Dawlish & Teignmouth sea walls recently. Most of the Industrial sand trains have featured two DB Cargo class 66 locomotives hauling the box bogie wagons. There was an...