The Dawlish Sea Wall, Nothing is impossible for an Engineer

The Dawlish and Teignmouth sea wall featured on the Coast programme, views of the Torbay Express with current traction on the sea wall FGW HST's Voyagers, 150's, A central trains 158, SWT 159's. The History of the line. The future of the line is asked well the Southern route via Meldon was closed as was Exeter City Basin to Heathfield and there was a plan to go via a divertion route before the second world war further inland but this never went ahead. Starcross pumping house is shown along with storm damage of the line.

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• Dawlish
• Sea
• Wall
• Torbay
• Express
• Teignmouth
• Starcross
• Pumping
• House
• 150
• 158
• SWT
• 159
• voyager
• FGW
• HST

[colliecandle]

The commentator says "Global warming" Yet ANOTHER LIE swallowed by the 'greenies'

[logbasher]

@colliecandle So are you saying the term "Global Warming" is a lie or that there hasn't been a change in the weather in the past 30 years? I personally don't think Global Warming is completely a "man made" thing as the planet goes through heat cycles every several hundred thousand years. But with 300 years of burning coal for industry and 100 years of burn fuels in cars, planes and trains hasn't helped matters either. If we lose the ice caps then flooding will follow!

[logbasher]

@spoorus Im sorry you've lost me L-B? P to B? I don't get your comments in reference to Europe? What industry is there in Cornwall now that would expand Dollands Moor to Par or Penzance? most of the sidings have gone the lighting Factory at Bodmin stopped sending goods by rail the fertilser to Turo doesn't run anymore! How much longer will China Clay go by rail? Besides thers no money for this remember HS2 is set aside but West of England isn't a traffic hot spot chief!

[spoorus]

@logbasher You can't compare L- B to a french style LGV. You may compare to the classic Paris Brussels line that has the same features though electrified all over. Still P to B was doubled by a new LGV and the traffic has exploded into the 6 fold. Apart from Eurostar and Thalys beyond Brussels the LGV Gare du Nord sees 4 to 6 trains hourly non stop on the LGV branching into the north of France . The only LGV in GB is from Ebbsfleet to Dollands moor. A new LGV into the SW sure will gain traffic.

[logbasher]

@spoorus Oh P.S London Bristol is High speed why would we need a second line? Brunel built it good enough apart from maybe extra tracks but the route is the flatest possible to Swindon.

[logbasher]

@spoorus Not enough traffic to warrent a HS3 of the devon and cornwall route even if the summer levels were throught the winter! a diversionary route would make sense, But what about the Exe estuary they would need to build a lock gate on the scale of those in Holland between Exmouth and Dawlish Warren! because I doubt the line is more than 20 feet higher at St Davids but if Dawlish goes under so does St Davids...we all know how bad Cowley Bridge and Stafford bridge gets after a heavy rain.

[spoorus]

@logbasher Not to mention possible development over the tracks at Tavistock. It may not be clever to revive an old curvy railway while England is almost paved with remnants as such. Better argue for a Highspeed line from London to Bristol, extended to Exeter and maybe ending in St Austell, where local traffic takes over. You won't get customers for slow lines if the customer wants to go distance. Old railways though may be developed as scenic attractions but that's a different thing.

[60103Henry]

Great Video, 5 Stars! and Merry Christmas :)

[ShaurntheSheep]

lol peter key

[Markjuk]

@logbasher - 1) The Government wants us out of our cars, so money should be made available. Also i like the Lib Dem idea of diverting £3billion of road fund licence to reopen viable old rail routes. 2) i don't buy the arguement that a route cannot be reopened because it has been partly built over, a reopened line does not need to follow the old route to an exactly, if a slight diversion to the original path is possible it should be looked at.