by DB Colin | Apr 15, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized, Video
Plenty going on between 6.30pm 14th April and 7.30am on the 15th. The video shows in time order firstly the Thank You Key workers IET 802020 on the rear of 802021 followed by HST Class 255 43170 Chepstow Castle and 43098 Walton Castle. Next along is GBRf 66748... 
by DB Colin | Apr 13, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Teignmouth, Uncategorized
GBRf 66748 named ” West Burton 50″ brought 4 HST Power cars 43197 43193 43087 43056 out of long term storage down to Laira from Long Marston. It is due to return to Long Marston on Weds 14th to collect further locos and return to Laira Depot. ... 
by DB Colin | Apr 4, 2021 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Uncategorized
And what a delight it was to see this private train. Immaculate throughout from the gleaming Class 37 locomotives powering it to the last of the Pullman style coaches provided by the Locomotive Services Limited Company. It is available for hire to wealthy business... 
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 | 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... 
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