yorkie_pudd Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 (edited) plenty going on both cams at moment. edit: added 3rd pic Edited March 25, 2014 by yorkie_pudd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 plenty going on both cams at moment. Dawlish cam.jpg edit: added 3rd pic Big yellow and red tracky thing 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 25, 2014 Here's a video from one of the Dawlish residents on Facebook - consist included 66552 at the Teignmouth end, although whether or not it went as far as the slip site is unlikely. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151927494446529 I thought it was delivering a fresh supply of pasties for Captain Kernow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 When do we get the 1st photo of the Big Whirly Photo Taking Thingy? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 When do we get the 1st photo of the Big Whirly Photo Taking Thingy? Wonder if it can take selfies? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I thought it was delivering a fresh supply of pasties for Captain Kernow. The good Cap'n has them flown in by the Big Whirly Thingy, its not just there to take video. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT42CWRDriver Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 (edited) Three ballast trains are booked to Dawlish this weekend, destination listed as "Smugglers". Two of them are mainly made up of empty coalfish so I'm guessing landslip removal. Edited March 25, 2014 by JT42CWRDriver Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Wonder if it can take selfies? With or without make-up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
royaloak Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 There is a Special Train Path in the system for 05.14 Teignmouth to Exeter tomorrow morning. Will this be the first train to pass the site of the breach on the new track panels? Geoff Endacott The front loco and 10 autoballasters have gone over the breach dropping ballast, the train then set off back towards Dawlish Warren. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 When do we get the 1st photo of the Big Whirly Photo Taking Thingy? Patience! Very soon! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 OK, with all these webcams now showing such good footage, I'm starting to feel a little superfluous! Anyway, I made another series of site visits today, starting with a walk out from Teignmouth to the landslip site between Sprey Point and Smugglers Cove: Hoping to cadge a lift off this fellow, but he had to go back to Teignmouth for fuel... Onwards to the main slip site: As I approached the main site, the sea again started to turn red: Just short of the main slip site, work was continuing with repairs to the parapet wall: The lads here have shifted a monumental amount of spoil since last week, documented very well by the video that has been posted elsewhere on this thread. By the time I got there today, sufficient had been brought down that the hoses had been stood down. They seemed confident that the next milestone - namely the relaying of the slurry-contaminated track - would start on time this Friday afternoon. The digger driver in the plant on the mound in some of these next photos apparently has a lot of experience working in quarries, and was described as being very efficient! This special crawler, actually known as a 'spider' and tethered up at the top, gave the appearance from down below of 'tettering on the brink', whereas in fact, it was all perfectly safe! The pile of red earth is still there, but the tides are definitely shifting it pretty well... More earthmoving: More photos in next post. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 Some more views of the general scene at the main slip site: And now, the buzzy flying video thingey up at the top of the cliffs: Orange-suited gentlemen on ropes checking the slope out: Anyway, back to the wall - more completed parapet wall: The view from Sprey Point: More photos in next post. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgman Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 So, that buzzy flying thingy...........did you put in a special word with Q ( James Bonds gadget man) to play with that or is The Gadget Show making a special episode without you knowing ? Interesting update CK thank you. Grahame Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 OK, so then it was back to Dawlish, and here are some views of a nice, tidy railway along Marine Parade. The darker, shiny areas of ballast are where it's been glued, either yesterday or today (they were ballast glueing up in Dawlish station when I was there - photos to follow): And on for a quick look at Dawlish station, which is virtually completed now, with its three coats of paint: And here they are, in the actual process of spraying the glue onto the ballast. It is a type of liquid resin, that dries between 6 to 12 hours or thereabouts, depending on atmospheric conditions (my thanks to fellow RMWebber Trackrat for that, with whom I had a nice chat at the station this afternoon!): And onwards towards 'the hole', which is what most people still call the main wash-out site, which I suppose really should now be called 'the big buried lump of concrete with track on top of it'... More repairs to the wall on the way: At the main site, the local NR track renewals gang was on hand, doing some ballast brushing and tiding up, with a tamper working gradually towards the site on the down line from the Rockstone direction. More ballast was waiting in autohoppers at Dawlish Warren for the Up line: Rail detail (cut end was from one of the temporary rails, now replaced with proper CWR), and a set of clamps: More photos in next post. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I'm still a little surprised that a membrane wasn't laid over the track at the landslip site to prevent contamination of the track - or had it already been contaminated before the artificial landslip? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 Is all that fencing along the line to protect the line from landslips then. The fencing has been there for some time, and is being replaced again once the current round of earth removals have finished. It's role is to hold back any cliff falls sufficiently to give warning of said cliff fall, something that works well, as evidenced by the small fall we had in December 2012. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 I'm still a little surprised that a membrane wasn't laid over the track at the landslip site to prevent contamination of the track - or had it already been contaminated before the artificial landslip? I think there was contamination before this. Certainly the track a little further ahead has remained contaminated (with a speed restriction) since the last one in Dec 2012, and the whole lot should now be relaid this coming weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Captain Kernow Posted March 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 25, 2014 Final few photos now: The ballast glueing had reached the London-end of the Down platform: 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Glum Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 That so called 'buzzy flying thingey' in IMG_2178 is living proof that we are being watched by aliens. You think it's controlled by a man in a yellow suit, but I know it is a detached part of the alien lander masquerading as a tamper on Dawlish Station (see earlier post). It's an Autonomous Alien Buzzy Flying Zig-Zaggy-in-the-Airey-Thingey', and we ain't safe. Line your plastic helmets with tin foil, guys! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 (Photo link removed) Look like there's third rail on one line in that photo above!!No doubt a re-installation of the vacuum pipe for the atmospheric railway. It's green power you know! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Patience! Very soon! You don't seem to realise the urgency of the matter! We need photos of spidery thingies, red tracky thingies and buzzy flying thingies so that we can get tee-shirts printed for the Orange army supporters for the 4th April. We need to order pasties for visiting dignitaries and we need to order a gold helmet with a flying pasty insignia on it. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 News just reaching us. Captain Kernow, 1st Sea Wall Lord of Dawlish has been requested together with his Flying Buzzy Thingy to travel immediately to Southern Indian Ocean to lead the search for flight MH370. To be joined by Orange Army Boat Squad ASAP. Red Adair eat your heart out you have been superseded by Captain Kernow and his weapons of mass construction! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsforever Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Is the glue on the ballast pva with washing up liquid sorry if this has been said before,also will the part of the wall with new concrete sections sat on them be filled and smoothed over as now it looks a bit tacky?But seriously its looking fantastic will the captain be cutting the ribbon when the first train is ready to enter the station? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkie_pudd Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 OK, with all these webcams now showing such good footage, I'm starting to feel a little superfluous! That Squire you can never be as the drone gives great full in depth overhead shots of the whole site, and the two fixed cams give great fixed location viewing to which the mind can fill the details in. The one thing neither of these do is good ole ground leg work for 1st class information as one would see it if I or others walked it their self. Thank you for taking your time to do this so we get to see it at ground level as you do. Gent and a Scholar CK Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted March 26, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 26, 2014 Having watched the wonderful work by the orange army, I get the feeling when the council come to to the road above, first a man with a white spray can will mark a few white angles on the road, then a month or two later a couple of men will turn up with a wheelbarrow of instant tarmac, throw that in the hole flatten it with a shovel and then wander off!! And then come back to dig it up to put the pipes in! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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