Dawlish Sea Wall – November Update
In this November update of the Dawlish Sea Wall, you will see the huge changes to the Coastguards end of the wall. Jack Brookes from Bam Nuttall also shows us the plans for the railway station over the coming months.
New Camera Pages Coming Soon
We will soon be updating our camera pages to make viewing our cameras a lot easier. Our live streams will now appear at the top of the page so you won’t have to scroll down to see your favourite views. We have also moved the buttons underneath the player to make it...
How do they get the large machinery to the beach?
This months sea wall update is slightly different to our usual tour along the wall. Jack Brookes from Bam Nuttall has arranged for us to spend a day with Captain Killick onboard MTS Terramare. MTS Terramare is a 63-year-old vessel originally designed for moving tanks....
Dawlish Beach Cams at Dawlish Christmas Market
Dawlish Beach Cams will be hosting a stall at this years Dawlish Christmas Market. Dawlish Christmas Market is over two days this year. 27th and 28th of November. Stalls will open from 11 am until 4 pm on both days. We will have badges, calendars and subscriptions on...
The New Dawlish Sea Wall Build Tour
We are back with another tour of the new Dawlish Sea Wall with Jack Brookes from Bam Nuttal. They have been concentrating on adding the viewing areas and filling the Coastguards end of the wall as they install the steps and ramp that join to the old promenade.
Things to do in Brixham – A Day Out in Brixham
We start our day out in Brixham from Broadsands beach and walk along the South West Coast Path to Brixham. We capture the sun as it rises over Brixham Harbour and then head along the footpath to Elberry Cove, a beautiful pebbled beach with an old bathhouse. Celestey...
Things to do in Brixham Teaser
While we are busy working on the edit for the main video, here's a preview of our visit to Brixham last month. From October 2021, our walks are now monthly. During the month of filming, we ask our VIP members to make decisions for us and help contribute towards this...
Sea Breeze Update
I was onsite on Tuesday 28th for the install of the second fibre connection for Sea Breeze cam and Black Swan cam. The Openreach engineer was onsite most of the day but could only install the phone line. While he was on site, he changed the fifty-year-old cable...
Celeste wants me to jump in the sea, do I?
So, Celeste thinks I should jump in the sea. It doesn't sound much fun to me. I'll let you decide.
Behind the scenes on location in Brixham
You Voted for Brixham
Live Camera Update
Hi All, I spent most of last night moving the live streams to the new server and it is settling in well. Today there has been a lot of buffering at Sea Breeze, Black Swan Cam and San Remo. I've spent most of the morning at San Remo talking to the ISP as we only have...
Where do we head next?
The Welshman through Dawlish
The Welshman made its journey through Dawlish today but unlike most steam trains through Dawlish, it started from Kingswear for the tour to Cardiff. The Royal Scot will return in the evening at 20:56 so make sure you join us on our website to watch it live.
Live Cameras News Update
Over the past six months, we started receiving a few reports of the live streams misbehaving. Over time the issue has gradually got worse to the point where the cameras have been unwatchable for some. We discovered an issue with our main streaming server and it's been...
Walking News
We have some exciting news about the way we create and film our walks. We will be producing one video per month now but as VIP's, you will be following us on our journey throughout the month and helping us make decisions via voting polls (see below). We want to make...
Update to VIP’s Special Videos Page
We have updated our VIP special videos page to make it easier to watch our videos in chronological order but you can now also comment on individual videos. This will allow you to provide important feedback to us so we can improve our content. Our walks will now be...
Dawlish Sea Wall Phase Two Update September 2021 with Jack from Bam Nuttall
Streaming Server Issues Resolved
In March of 2021, we installed our first ever 4k live streaming camera, Sea Breeze Cam. After it was installed, I discovered that our standard streaming servers, couldn't cope with transcoding 4k footage. Transcoding is the process of converting the live stream from...
Broadsands to Torquay
GBRf/Colas CWR rail drop to Cornwall July 21/22nd 2021
The continuing rail replacements are still in action in Cornwall and the video shows the 6G98 Westbury -Burngullow junction 600ft length continuous welded rail train as it passes through Dawlish and Teignmouth at 5.40pm July 21st and also it's return at 7.20am today...
Beach Cams Man’s Birthday Walk – Seven Sisters, Langstone Rock, and Horse Cove
This week we start our day for the sunrise at the top of Dawlish, Seven Sisters, and then we head down to Langstone Rock where we show you ‘behind the scenes' footage from a video we’ve been working on. This video will eventually be used as the intro for some of our...
Photos of this week 26th June – 2nd July 2021
National Rail Infrastructure trains
It's been a busy time along the sea wall with four different types of train. Starting on Monday evening the TRT Track Renewal Train came down from Fairwater Yard at Taunton to replace track in the Dainton area. On Monday its timetable included a stop in Dawlish Warren...
The Royal Train June 11th 2021
The Royal Train was in use on June 11th to take members of the Royal Family from Windsor to Par in Cornwall to attend the G7 meetings. On the train were Prince Charles, Camilla and Prince William. The train has been recorded as it passed through Dawlish and...
Saphos Rail Tours “Devonian Express” Steam Train
Saphos Rail Tours "Devonian Express" ran today from Solihull to Plymouth. It began its journey under diesel power with LSL 47614 and made its way down through Warwick, Leamington Spa, Banbury, and Oxford picking up passengers before heading to Bristol Temple Meads....
The Cornish Coastal Pullman
A full day out from Wolverhampton and Tame Bridge to Penzance. The train was double-headed by two LSL Class 47 locomotives 47593 which is named Galloway Princess and 47614 plus eleven Pullman luxury coaches. The train set off at 5.09am and arrived at Penzance at 1pm ...
HST Midland Pullman
The Midland Pullman is owned and run by Locomotive Services Ltd. ( LSL) The tour was from Eastleigh to Penzance and was the first occasion that the train has been to Devon & Cornwall. The power cars were numbers 43055 and 43046 which is named Geoff Drury...
Rail News 27th May 2021
First of all to get it out the way the bad news is that steam train 60163 Tornado's tour which was due to pass through Dawlish on Saturday 29th has been cancelled. The good news is that the newly formed HST Midland Pullman train's tour to Penzance and return is still...
Website Outage
We apologise for the outage of the website today (23rd May 2021). A vulnerability was detected on the website at 00:47 so the site was taken offline as a precaution. We have been working with the hosts to repair the issue and to get the site back online as quickly as...
The Weedkiller train
It is the time of year that the weedkiller trains operate. The Windhoff MPV (multi purpose vehicle) normally would operate on its own but because of the lingering Covid Regulations it is being top and tailed by two DB Cargo locomotives to keep the staff apart and able...
Dawlish Brewery
At the end of the 17th century, there were six or seven pubs in a village of about 2000 residents. By 1845, there were more than a dozen and the population had increased to about 4000 people. Now, there are about 14,000 living in Dawlish and there are only eight pubs...
The Funeral – Royal Visitor
Having written about the auction of the Dawlish Brewery in 1825 by my four greats grandfather, John Force, I have to say that I enjoyed writing about an actual event, even if the details of the story were a figment of my imagination. The problem was, as I mentioned in...
Sea Wall Rail News 22nd April 2021
Due to the Covid restrictions it was deemed not cost effective to operate the Devonian Express Midland Pullman excursion from Peterborough to Kingswear on May 3rd which has now been re-programmed to run on August 30th which is good news. The Midland Pullman is still...
At the fall of the hammer
My previous blog introduced Mary and her family, and it gave me the idea that my imagination could create an adventure out of any situation, even if it was only a work of fiction. However, I wanted to use a real event and weave a story where I could influence...
Railway interest at Dawlish April 14/15th 2021
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 "West...