by DB Colin | Apr 2, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth, Video
A surprise this week was a Colas Class 70 coming light engine from Cardiff to Hackney Yard sidings at Newton Abbot to collect a loaded cement tank wagon which had been removed from a trainload bound for Moorswater several months ago and been languishing in the yard...
by DB Colin | Mar 24, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway, Recordings, Teignmouth
Nice to see two excellent locomotives in pristine colourful livery doing another stock movement of Class 43 power car 43091 from storage at Long Marston near Stratford on Avon and returning with Power car 43086 using Mk3 HST coach 12161 as a barrier car. Locomotives...
by DB Colin | Feb 21, 2020 | Article, Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth
DB 66005 with a part load of China Clay slurry seen in the video as it headed through the deep cutting on the western end of Teignmouth station. Nick could have done without the DMU coming out the station and blocking the view but that’s life! Next the train is...
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 | Feb 2, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, Diesel Specials, General, Railway
Colas 70812 powered the Kirow 125T Rail Crane train on Saturday afternoon from Westbury to Hackney yard at Newton Abbot and the return to Westbury on Sunday afternoon. The crane had been in use in Hackney yard attending to the sidings trackwork whist there. Share...
by DB Colin | Jan 28, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth
Photographs and video of the start of rail renewal at Teignmouth. The video begins with the train that carries the actual railing machine along with the sleeper supply and a rake of five autoballaster wagons passing through Teignmouth station earlier on Saturday...
by DB Colin | Jan 24, 2020 | Dawlish Beach, General, Railway, Teignmouth
Colas 66848 with a rake of side tipping MRA 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 Neil | Jan 6, 2020 | Cameras, Dawlish Beach, General, Subscribers News, Subscriptions, Technical
Happy New Year and I hope you’ve had a nice break over Christmas. We have some exciting news for 2020 as we are preparing to install our sixth camera, the new ‘Black Swan Cam’. This will be our first-ever point tilt and zoom camera that will cover...
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