Freight trains passing over the sea wall April 1& 2 2020
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...
Stock Move Long Marston to Laira & Return.
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...
DB Maritime Intermodal One on China Clay Slurry
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 seen...
Rail news. Major Infrastructure movements.
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...
Mobile rail Crane.
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.
Rail Replacement Teignmouth 26-01-2020
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...
Colas 66848 on Ballast train 24-01-2020
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...
GBRf Class 50’s Stock moves 22nd & 23rd January 2020
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...
Recent loco hauled Freight and Infrastructure trains. January 4-10th Jan 2020
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...
What’s in store for 2020 with Dawlish Beach Cams
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 Kennaway Tunnel, the...
Happy New Year
Thank you to everyone that has supported Dawlish Beach Cams over the past year especially the website subscribers and Facebook supporters. Your contribution to Dawlish Beach Cams helps us keep moving forward and adding more cameras for your pleasure. 2020 will see our new point, tilt and zoom camera that will cover a huge area of Dawlish from sea wall to lawn and also keep an eye on our beloved black swans and cygnets. If you are not a subscriber, you can become one here or Facebook supporter here.
Colas 56049 Robin of Templecombe on Railvac movement.
On Sunday 22nd December 2019 Colas sent a locomotive from Doncaster to Par in order to collect a Railvac machine from Fowey Docks the next morning and deliver it to Bescot Yard near Birmingham. The locomotive gained the nameplate "Robin of Templecombe 1938 - 2013"...
Railway Happenings!
Hopefully good news that two Steam Specials have been announced that are intended to run in August 2020. The first is a Saphos tour from Cardiff to Plymouth double headed by a streamlined A4 pacific and with the other loco to be announced later. The A4 will be the...
This week in pictures 6th October 2019
Dawlish Dementia Adventure Open Day and Dawlish Beach Cams Live Sea Wall Walk for Alzheimer’s
The weekend of 12th and 13th of October 2019 is Dementia charity weekend in Dawlish. On the 12th October Home Instead Senior Care are holding a Dawlish Dementia Adventure Open Day at the Manor House in Dawlish and on the 13th, Dawlish Beach Cams will be walking from...
Stormy Seas with Train and People wash!
Strong winds from the southeast and high tide on Friday 20th September brought the usual wave overtopping of the Dawlish sea wall. The video begins with some pedestrians walking the wall from Dawlish Warren into Dawlish who may have got more than they bargained for,...
Final Steam Special for this year
We have had a special excursion train, either steam or diesel hauled, passing over the Dawlish and Teignmouth sea walls on most weekends since the end of April. The season has now finished with the fourth and final Royal Duchy express with LMS 6233 Duchess of...
Continuous Welded Rail (CWR) train 9th September 2019
Unusually the CWR train came directly from the production depot at Eastleigh near Southampton and delivered to Goonbarrow Junction near Luxulyan on the Newquay branchline in Cornwall. It was powered top and tail by Colas 66850 David Maidment OBE and 66848. The video...
Rail News 4th September.
It's been quite busy this past week with two specials over the weekend and a few freight locomotives to be seen. Saturday's special was the Statesman Riviera Pullman from Nottingham to Kingswear which was top and tailed by Large logo Blue livery 47593 Galloway...
Strangers on the Shore – LNER HST’s in Devon.
On Saturday 24th August Cross Country Trains hired in two LNER HST trains to provide long distance services to Plymouth from York and Edinburgh. First along was from York with 43251 & 43257 which was spot on time passing through Dawlish. The Edinburgh train ran in...
High Output Track Renewals train
Monday night 19th August saw the first of four nights this week that the HOTR train will be passing through Dawlish en route to Dainton Tunnel from its base at Fairwater Yard at Taunton. The train was top and tailed by two Freightliner locomotives. Leading loco on the...
VIP Subscription now available in Monthly
After the launch of our VIP Subscription nearly 2 months ago, we are now offering the VIP as a monthly sub.
Brunel Holiday Park Review August 2019 previously Brunel Camping Carriages
Back in 2014 when Dawlish Beach Cams started, I always wondered what would happen to Brunel Camping Carriages (as it was known back in the day), as they just seem to fall in to disrepair. Dawlish Museum visited the site in January 2016 and took these photos. Around...
Weekend Rail News
The high-spot of the weekend was of course LMS 6233 "Duchess of Sutherland" on the Royal Duchy which apparently set a new record for the fastest run between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth in preservation times of 59 minutes and 26 seconds. There are two more Royal...
Never miss a Facebook post again
Most days we post around 5 posts to 5 social media channels daily. We have over 40,000 followers on Facebook but most followers won't see the posts due to the Facebook algorithm. To ensure you get your daily fix of Dawlish Beach Cams you just need to adjust one simple...
Retiring after 5 years of service
In 2003 after retiring, my parents moved from the Midlands and as they wanted to be by the sea and the railway, Dawlish was top of the list. My Dad had worked on the railways for as long as I could remember, in fact, one of my first memories is going to work with my...
Thursday morning trains
A bit of variety this morning. First up on the video was Colas 70813 with the returning discharged cement tanks from Moorswater in Cornwall to Aberthaw in South Wales. Next up was the Rail Grinder which had been stabled in Hackney Yard at Newton Abbot and was bound...
Saturday’s Diesel Special.
The English Riviera Statesman was the title for the Pullman car excursion from Crewe to Paignton and was hauled double headed by 47501/D1944 "Craftesman" & 47810/D1924 Crewe Diesel Depot". The locos are numbered to reflect the time when they were new in 1966 with...
San Remo Upgrade
Advanced notice! On Thursday the 1st of August 2019 we will be upgrading San Remo Cam. The cam will be off from 10am and we hope to have the new camera installed and live by 2pm. Once this has been completed, we will then start work on the new camera at Dawlish Warren...
English Riviera Express July 7th 2019 34046 Braunton
On it's third appearance on the English Riviera Express, Southern region Rebuilt West Country Class 34046 Braunton for once had a clear road through Dawlish and Teignmouth in both directions. It was able to give a fine display of it's speed and power and was a...
Dart & Torbay Express 6th July 2019
This Pathfinder Tours day excursion had begun at Tame Bridge Parkway just north of Birmingham diesel hauled. On reaching Bristol Temple Meads 60163 Tornado took over to take the train to Kingswear for Dartmouth. It was pathed to stop in Dawlish Warren station to allow...
Colas Network Rail Measurement train
Making a nice change from the normal HST version of the train was Colas 67023 top and tailing with 67027. Seen approaching the Rockstone Bridge on Dawlish sea wall making their way back to Paddington. They had started from Reading at 5.56am, traveled to Penzance,...
Weekend Specials June 29th-30th 2019
Saturday was the Mazey Day celebration in Penzance and every year a special excursion comes down from the Birmingham area. This year it was to have been Deltic D9009 Alycidon but unfortunately this loco is under repair after suffering an electrical flashover earlier...
Devon in a Day – We explore some of what Devon has to offer via the Railway Network
Devon truly is a special place. We are fortunate to cover part of the south coast with our cameras but, what about the rest? We took up our very own challenge to see just what we could do in a single day by using sustainable and greener modes of transport. Leaving...
This weekend’s action on the rails
This weekend gives us a treat of two tours passing the cameras. Here are the full details. Saturday 29th June see's the visit of two class 37 locos hauling Pathfinder tours Mazey Day Cornishman from Tame Bridge Parkway to Penzance. Times past Dawlish are booked as...
Had enough rain? On Sunday a Tornado is forecast!
Fortunately in this case the tornado is LNER Class A1 60163 Tornado due Sunday 23rd June. This is the new build locomotive which first appeared in 2008. The original class of 49 were built at Doncaster and Darlington in 1948/9 but unfortunately were all scrapped by...