New HST Castle set GW3
Today GW3 Castle set was rostered on the 6am T E 12 service Penzance to Exeter St Davids which calls in at Dawlish on the way up. The set was powered by 43094 and 43005. There is only a ten minute turn round time in Platform 6 before it returns to Penzance as the...
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Loco hauled freight and Infrastructure trains.
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...
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Dawlish Beach Cams Celebrates 5 Years of Live Streaming
When I started setting up Dawlish Beach Cams in late 2013 I never expected it to become what it has today. What started as a single camera operation, with a few thousand followers, has now expanded to 4 static cameras with over 60,000 followers over all social media...
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What a difference a day makes
Yesterday it was rather bleak with a bitterly cold wind and today there was little wind and a sunny 11C as I went to record today's lunchtime sand train. This time the lead locomotive 66126 was in the old EWS livery and the second loco 66044 in the new DB Cargo red...
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Two for the Price of One
A dull drab day but a splash of colour to brighten up the scene for the hardy souls braving the chilly wind on the Dawlish sea wall today. There has been frequent train movements over the past few weeks of the Industrial sand from Burngullow near St. Austell in...
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Sea Wall Improvements – Planning Meeting Dawlish Town Council
For those who wish to attend, there is a Town Council Planning meeting at The Manor House, Old Town Street, Dawlish, EX7 9AP on THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2019 at 7pm The meeting is open to the public and questions and concerns may be raised as the chairman permits. Local...
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Funding announcement for new sea wall made by Minister for Transport
Friday 15th February saw possibly the worst kept secret in British politics finally announced publicly. Chris Grayling, Minister for Transport arrived onboard a specially laid on GWR class 802 IET train just before mid day. Speaking to a crowd of media he announced a...
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Here is the presentation held on Dawlish station by Network Rail with Chris Grayling announcing that funding by the government has been granted for the first stage to improve the resilience of the Dawlish sea wall.
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Dawlish Beach Cams The Great Storm 5 Years Later
This Dawlish Beach Cams mini documentary covers the shocking storm in Dawlish during February 2014. We show you unseen footage and photos of the event and explain the history of the railway and why that section of the sea wall collapsed. Credits Network Rail...
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Dawlish Dominates again! Comment from Simon
It's been quite a busy time for Dawlish as far as the news headlines are concerned. The 5 year anniversary of the railway collapse at Sea Lawn terrace brought news crews and reporters to the town in large numbers to look back on events. For some, it was a painful...
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Five years on
"It would only be under some extraordinary circumstances of high spring tides and very heavy gales that the water would even touch the wall of the railway. There is not, in my opinion, any ground for apprehension. A railway is not a work liable to any considerable...
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Network Rail submits plans for resilience work
Network Rail has made a planning submission to Teignbridge District Council to improve the long-term resilience of the railway linking Devon and Cornwall to the rest of the UK. Plans, developed in partnership with world leading engineering contractors Arup, for a new,...
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Week end Rail News 03/02/2019
There were a couple of interesting trains this weekend. On Saturday Colas 66846 brought down from Hinksey Yard 15 MRA wagons loaded with ballast for use on the Barnstaple line. Surprisingly rather than running round its train in Exeter Riverside yard it came down to...
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Railway News – Special trains 2019 Passing over the Dawlish & Teignmouth sea walls
Special trains passing through Dawlish 2019 First one This Sunday 3rd February! Please note. These are planned tours but invariably some are cancelled or postponed for various reasons - Loco unavailable, fire risk and occasionally lack of bookings or as it is...
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Voyager campaign – Please support by typing “Agreed” in comments
So here is a question for you, Are the Cross Country class 220/221 Voyager trains acceptable for our region? I use the term region because although the Voyager has an issue with sea conditions at Dawlish, the resulting cancellations will affect your journey if you are...
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More Infrastructure workings over the weekend.
For the second weekend there have been five more trains bound for the Ivybridge area which were passing through Dawlish and Teignmouth.They all originated from the Hinksey yard carrying ready made railtrack sections and ballast. The yard is situated on the outskirts...
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Weekend Infrastructure trains
Track replacement work in the Ivybridge area brought several Colas locomotives along the sea walls over the weekend. There was also some movement by DB Cargo on their Industrial sand contract from Burngullow near St. Austell to Bow in London. The videos taken at...
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Laira Tour Gallery including Flying Scotsman and Black Five
Laira Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot Tour including Flying Scotsman and Black Five
Dawlish Beach Cams was exclusively invited by GWR to the Laira Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot in Plymouth during the visit of Flying Scotsman in October 2018. In this video you will see Flying Scotsman maintenance and Black Five maintenance. This is...
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Second ROG stock movement in three days.
Rail Operations Group duo of 47812 & 47815 "Lost Boys 66-88" with their two Barrier Vans came down to Laira Depot Plymouth from their base at Leicester on Sunday 16th December. On Monday 17th they transfered nine off lease HST Mk3 coaches to the storage facility...
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Interesting Hour on Dawlish Sea Wall
An interesting hour on Dawlish Sea Wall Monday 17th December 2018. Trains passing included ROG's 47815 Lost Boys & 47812 with a set of HST Mk3 coaches and two Barrier vans heading for storage at Ely. DR77909 Ballast regulator, HST Castle set on test powered by...
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December Trainwash
Rough seas this morning so I went down to the Rockstone Bridge to video the waves and the HST Castle set on its usual service run from Penzance to Exeter St. Davids and after a short break it heads back to Penzance. GWR will eventually have eleven of these sets and...
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Returning Ballast train.
Just the one engineering train this weekend for the ongoing work in the Ivybridge area. Luckily for Nick the sun had popped out between the showers whereas it was raining in Dawlish as it passed the webcams. This locomotive had the latest DB Cargo red livery applied...
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Railway News.
Lots going on last weekend with the steam tour and more engineering work in Devon and Cornwall and a move of a 4 coach Castle set to be with HST power cars 43186 and 43154 returning to Wabtec at Doncaster for further work. The A4 has been covered in other posts but I...
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Union of South Africa reminder.
A quick reminder that tomorrow see's the return of 60009 Union of South Africa to our cameras. Hauling the Railway Touring Company's Plymouth Christmas market special, she will be passing around 11.06 am after a stop for 15 minutes at Dawlish Warren. Be aware that the...
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That time of the year!
It is perfectly normal for the waves near high tide to crash into the sea wall at this time of the year, usually only causing fairly minor damage to the walls. Hopefully when the decisions have been taken and some kind of extra protection is in place scenes like the...
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Colas Class 70 Fest
Five Colas Class 70 locomotives were used over the weekend 23-25th November for Rail Replacement duties around St Pinnock viaduct between Liskeard and Lostwithiel in Cornwall. Locomotives were Colas 70806/7/10/15/17 plus DB Cargo 66007 (nicknamed "James Bond") Nick...
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Has faith in the Sea Wall gone out with the tide? Simon Rants!
Ever since the storms of 2014 undermined the Sea Wall, causing the famous collapse into the sea, our famous wall has come under extra scrutiny and is now one of the hottest debates in the South West and Westminster. Used as a sensational story or a political hot...
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Network Rail decide to close the Sea Wall 07/11/2018
A decision has been made today by Network Rail to close the Railway line between Teignmouth and Dawlish tomorrow morning! In a move that i have never heard of previously, the decision is based on being cautious due to the High Tide and strong winds expected. However,...
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Revamp coming up.
Today saw GWR 43154 and 43186 making their way along the seawall with the 584K Laira to Wabtec Doncaster to be refurbished as a Castle set 4 coach train which GWR are replacing the DMU's with on their longer local services. Eventually there should be 11 sets in total...
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New Chat Coming
From Wednesday the 17th October 2018 we will have a new chat system for our subscribers due to our old one getting a bit out of date and causing issues to our website at busy times. Our new system will allow users to chat in a group or with other users privately and...
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This Week ending 14th October 2018
Here our playlist of our footage from Storm Callum.
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This Week for Subscribers ending 14th October 2018
Here a playlist of our footage from Storm Frank. Next week we will have an exclusive to show you only for subscribers. Below is a hint.
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Sign up to our Newsletter to receive FREE Platinum Subscription for a month
This evening we will be sending out our first weekly newsletter with a roundup of news from the previous week or so. We will continue sending these out weekly on a Sunday evening if there has been sufficient news for that week. The weekly newsletter will...
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Up close and Personal – Sunday Morning
What are you doing on Sunday morning? Four of our team have a very special invitation and we thought it only fair to allow you all to come along with us. Sadly the best we can offer is a live stream, signal permitting, but we believe you will all enjoy this one more...
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Website issues during Flying Scotsman
We have been speaking to our website hosts that have looked in to the issue of the site throwing up 504 errors during the Flying Scotsman visit. We use a specialist hosting service that is designed to stop website outages happening at peak times and have narrowed the...
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