Washout at Dawlish

[Highlandman]

The Orange Army are still at it. Lots of remedial work still to be done. What a fantastic job they are still doing.

 

[Mallard60022]

There goes the fishing boat......

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[Mallard60022]

Welcome Back

 

I wondered yesterday if they had fitted a wind cover to the microphone but now I wonder if they have added a "noise gate", which is a bit of electronics which silences the audio below a certain sound level, either way sounds good.

OK I suppose as quality is better and you can't hear the Orange Army (well, couple of blokes and a shovel or two) and others conversations. However I enjoyed listening to that lovely swishing of the waves and the gulls calling; very sea-side and we have lost that. Sound 'wash-out' at Dawlish....booooo!

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Edited May 17, 2014 by Mallard60022

[Granitechops]

Just been down Sealawn/Riviera terraces

 

security guys gone, asa well as traffic lights

 

guys in the webcam pic are digging along the concrete wall

 

for laying drainage gully

 

concrete lorry due at 9 am

 

gully sections still at Dawlish Warren compound

 

orange army sweating in the morning sun

 

must say I am impressed with what they have moved since I was down there 3/4 hour ago

 

Got to go out now

 

but will post pics later

 

 

[Mallard60022]

5Z77 43150 + coach + 43138 just went west.

Then 048N 66602 (wheel flat?) and 66614 west.

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Edited May 17, 2014 by Mallard60022

[Gary H]

5Z77 43150 + coach + 43138 just went west.

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You have to much time on your hands!

I saw it too though!

Light 66 on the way!

[Mallard60022]

You have to much time on your hands!

I saw it too though!

Light 66 on the way!

Nah, I'm just looking out of the window...........

which way the 66 or was that the pair ?

Edited May 17, 2014 by Mallard60022

[Gary H]

Nah, I'm just looking out of the window...........

which way the 66 or was that the pair ?

yeah, that was the pair!

They were in the loop at DW for a while whilst an HST went passed.

[BR(S)]

5Z77 43150 + coach + 43138 just went west.

Then 048N 66602 (wheel flat?) and 66614 west.

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Pictures of the mini HST from the replay.  The coach had two windows blanked off and a tiny piece of yellow first class stripe.  Is this something to do with the first class to standard class conversion?

 

 

[BR(S)]

And the 66s:

 

[HillsideDepot]

That's one of the mini-buffets, they've been in traffic for a while now. Although all the seating is standard class the yellow stripe is there to discourage standard passengers boarding at the buffet end and walking past the counter to the seats. First class passengers thinking it was for them would presumably turn the opposite way to the TF they are usually coupled to at the counter end.

[BR(S)]

And the 66s returning with a freight, top-and-tail:

 

 

[Siberian Snooper]

And the 66s returning with a freight, top-and-tail:

 

66s T&T 170514.jpg

 

66s T&Tb 170514.jpg

That was in Hackney yard yesterday.

[Gary H]

That was in Hackney yard yesterday.

yes, there's a rail reclamation centre there. That train goes around the country picking up used CWR. Its then brought down to Hackney where its unloaded. The rail is then Ultrasonically tested for defects and measured for wear. Depending on the outcome of those tests the rail is either re-used on lower category lines or in the case of unserviceable, its cropped into 20 foot sections and goes for scrap. A lot of it was coming down from the WCML modernisation and latterly between Bristol and Taunton although at the moment it may be picking up further afield.

[Granitechops]

photos from early this am Sat 17 May 2014

 

house in Riviera Terrace thats  still unoccupied

 

 

with the garage that was disemboweled by the waves

 

 

 

there is a 4-6 inch gap betrween the wall & the concrete foundation laid along underneath

 

 

 

definate  crack along the top of the fourth course of bricks 

 

 

dinky roller along side the garage

 

 

looking past the damaged building

 

 

work still to be done to join the new concrete to the old parapet

 

 

 

digging out to lay the drainage gully along side the road

 

to empty on to the railway at the Station end of the new outer wall

 

 

the first bit is Sealawn Terrace, followed by Riviera Terrace

 

the first few houses built in Sealawn Terrace

 

appear on Old Maps 1889? dawlish town map at 1-500 scale

 

 

Sealawn Terrace at 8 am today

 

 

 

work still to be done to the parapet at Station end of new outer seawall

 

 

 

WOW  what a perfect beach holiday day it was today

 

2 tankers & a container ship at anchor 5 miles out

 

50 to 60 yachts out of Exmouth racing across the bay

 

word "racing" used loosely as there was very little wind

 

a millionaires  luxury yacht at anchor off shore, probably out of Torquay harbour

 

4 power boats way out under full throttle

 

6-8 Kayaks

 

rowing boat

 

fishing boat,

 

RLNI Life boat under maneouvers,

 

probably Exmouths new waterjet one doing crew training

 

As it is spring tides, lots of people out in the rock pools along Coryton Cove

 

people swimming

 

beach busy with sunbathers

 

a Post card day!!

Edited May 17, 2014 by Granitechops

[raymw]

I think that, or similar went through Dunball a little while ago - 8'oclockish? heading to Bristle.

 

edit - referring to post 3601 - Granite chops got in first with more pics - not referring to the roller ;-)

Edited May 17, 2014 by raymw

[Granitechops]

Yachts out in the bay, from Coryton Cove

 

 

Rock pools being uncoverted as the tide went out

 

 

the old wood groyne continues to disintegrate

 

 

Dawlish Brook empties out under the viaduct

 

 

work goes on at the station bridge roof & repairs to various windows

 

of waiting rooms offices etc facing the sea, new windows,

 

replacement wire mesh to protect from flying pebbles

 

Last summer therte was a bed of river sediment & small gravel/pebbles

 

that had washed down the river beyond that pool

 

now all gone & the base beach is visible with debris

 

of mainly masonry from previous decades of storms

 

several old pipes uncovered by low tides

 

 

and bedrock exposed

 

although sand is drifting north at the moment,

 

along the top edge of the beach

 

 its now about 18 inches from the top end of the stone breakwater by the old Lifeboat house

 

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and is overflowing the small breakwater at Coryton Cove

 

 

 

[lightengine]

That's one of the mini-buffets, they've been in traffic for a while now. Although all the seating is standard class the yellow stripe is there to discourage standard passengers boarding at the buffet end and walking past the counter to the seats. First class passengers thinking it was for them would presumably turn the opposite way to the TF they are usually coupled to at the counter end.

 

Oh yeah! Musn't have the riff raff walk past our buffet! Don't mind taking money off the plebs though!

Is that for real?

[HillsideDepot]

It's what I was told when I asked about the small yellow stripe on a standard class vehicle, and the answer came from an fGW manager who is trained on HST stock.

[Mallard60022]

What fantastic 'wish you were here' pics 'Chops'. I'm already jealous of your sea-side location (even when it was horrendous in February) and now, well.........

I just have to be satisfied with A4s climbing Gamston Bank on a beautiful simmer's afternoon.....oh well.

So many thanks for the update; absolutely great as a little look into how things are still all upset for some local folk. 

Also many thanks chaps for the train updates.

Can I just pose a question here for all (and Andy & Mods) ?

Is it OK to use this site as a Web Cam discussion platform as well, or would you prefer to have a separate sub thread to discuss flat footed 66s and pleb avoidance Mini Buffet strategies? I am guilty of Dawlish watching and just 'looking out of' my imaginary sea-side cottage window so that's why I ask as it is not real talk of the 'wash-out'. In my defence I find this on line chatting to be very theraputic and highly interesting; especially the  train information.

Sincerely, Phil in land-locked North Notts.

[jamie92208]

What fantastic 'wish you were here' pics 'Chops'. I'm already jealous of your sea-side location (even when it was horrendous in February) and now, well.........

I just have to be satisfied with A4s climbing Gamston Bank on a beautiful simmer's afternoon.....oh well.

So many thanks for the update; absolutely great as a little look into how things are still all upset for some local folk. 

Also many thanks chaps for the train updates.

Can I just pose a question here for all (and Andy & Mods) ?

Is it OK to use this site as a Web Cam discussion platform as well, or would you prefer to have a separate sub thread to discuss flat footed 66s and pleb avoidance Mini Buffet strategies? I am guilty of Dawlish watching and just 'looking out of' my imaginary sea-side cottage window so that's why I ask as it is not real talk of the 'wash-out'. In my defence I find this on line chatting to be very theraputic and highly interesting; especially the  train information.

Sincerely, Phil in land-locked North Notts.

Can I echo those thoughts.  I also live some distance from a live railway, though when the air is still I can hear trains sounding their horns as they approach Morley station.  The webcam is great for seeing all aspects of the modern railway with freight, passenger and engineering trains.  Maybe this thread should be left to run as a memory of the fabulous work that the orange army did that has now enabled us to wtach a modern working railway.  Thanks for all the updates.

 

Jamie

Edited May 18, 2014 by jamie92208

[lmsforever]

I have to admit to clicking on the web cam at regular intervals during the day and evening it is also my window on to the sea as I live as far from the it as you can get.Hope that all the businesses affected in the storm are making up for lost time must be lovely to get up and stroll by the sea ,surprised how much more work still to be done but at least the main works are done keep sending the smashing pics lads.

[Captain Kernow]

I'd have thought that this would be a suitable place for a general 'Dawlish Sea Wall' thread, perhaps covering the section of line between Exminster and Newton Abbot?

[BR(S)]

Can I echo those thoughts.  I also live some distance from a live railway, though when the air is still I can hear trains sounding their horns as they approach Morley station.  The webcam is great for seeing all aspects of the modern railway with freight, passenger and engineering trains.  Maybe this thread should be left to run as a memory of the fabulous work that the orange army did that has now enabled us to wtach a modern working railway.  Thanks for all the updates.

 

Jamie

 

Don't forget about the other available webcams (some changes may have occurred to these since I last updated them): http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/79752-uk-railway-webcams-realtimetrains-pages/

[Granitechops]

was talking to a local elderly lady who visited Israel a few weeks back

 

she said as soon as anyone found out she was from Dawlish

 

she was inundated with questions about the railway,

 

there were people from many different nationalities present