What a great picture!
The sea was quite flat today but it was surprising that even with a 4 ft swell coming in the amount of water which comes down on the path nearest the wall! You can only imagine what its like when the winds howling and the tides in!
Not much to report from me today and nothing very glam I'm afraid.
I was in the vicinity of the works today but entirely at the Plymouth end of the station where all the 'boxing-in' and tidying ballast was going on. The majority of my colleagues
were moving ballast off the pavement and getting it back onto the track with the help from a road railer and a wheeled excavator. Just after dinner time when our visitor had already departed the place was still extremely busy, It was looking similar to a summer Saturday in July. My day was spent by moving 40 bags of ballast from Dawlish Warren to the main site, adding to the expanse seen in the picture above. Its fairly hard now to get to the main washout as its now in the main, a Bam Nutalls work site at the moment, this is our main contractor who does all of our big civil s jobs.
Im looking forward to us Plym, Par and Exeter guys getting stuck in and getting the track back in situe in a few weeks time.