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 | Jun 15, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, General, Kings Walk, Railway, Sea wall rebuilding, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
Track was being renewed near Lostwithiel in Cornwall by using two Infrastructure trains. The first through was on Friday evening when 66024 headed the Balfour Beatty rail laying train which had been seen replacing track at Teignmouth Station back in February. The...
by DB Colin | Feb 19, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
The last few days has seen a glut of engineering movements from Westbury to the far west of Cornwall between Truro and Penzance. The first train was on Thursday 13th with Colas 70805 heading a consist of box wagons with a Rail Vac machine in the centre. The train...
by DB Colin | Aug 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
At the weekend a book launch was held in the Marine Tavern by Colin J Marsden the renowned Railway author and editor of Modern Locomotives magazine. What Colin doesn’t know about the modern railway scene isn’t worth knowing and this slim book or bookazine...
by Michelle McDonald | Jun 22, 2018 | Uncategorized, Weather
Good evening. Here are your Dawlish weather and tide times for the weekend. Saturday A lovely day with some light cloud from mid-afternoon. Winds: NE-SE 7-11mph Temp: 20c Sunrise/sunset: 05:02/21:30 UV: VERY HIGH Pollen: VERY HIGH Pollution: Low Tide times: High 03:02...
by DB Colin | Dec 25, 2017 | General, Railway, Uncategorized
ER Class A4 60009 Union of South Africa Colin and Nick Campbell would like to wish all on Dawlish beach a very Merry Christmas and of course a prosperous and happy New Year. We hope those of you who are interested in the railway information that we put on the website...
