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heatonj

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Sea Wall - Posted: December 7, 2021 - 10:23 AM Quote and reply
Forgive my mounting cynicism but I have just been watching the Dawlish Beach Blenheim webcam that covers the completed section of new sea wall. I reckon the amount of water coming over the railway into the road is similar to the old sea wall days- admittedly perhaps in slightly less severe weather. Any improvement therefore is not absolute, just a matter of degree. In the meantime.....still no Voyagers.


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Re: Sea Wall - Posted: December 7, 2021 - 11:36 AM Quote and reply
heatonj said:
Forgive my mounting cynicism but I have just been watching the Dawlish Beach Blenheim webcam that covers the completed section of new sea wall. I reckon the amount of water coming over the railway into the road is similar to the old sea wall days- admittedly perhaps in slightly less severe weather. Any improvement therefore is not absolute, just a matter of degree. In the meantime.....still no Voyagers.


I had my first look at dawlishbeach.com's cameras around 0945 two hours after high tide and the new sea wall was displaying its achilles heel- the occasional up thrusted wave's spray being blown onto the tracks by the gale force wind. I noticed what is 802109 in the up platform at Dawlish on the 0835 PLY-PAD and it's still there 2 hours later with the passengers just having been evacuated seemingly.
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Re: Sea Wall - Posted: December 7, 2021 - 1:52 PM Quote and reply
8001F said:
heatonj said:
Forgive my mounting cynicism but I have just been watching the Dawlish Beach Blenheim webcam that covers the completed section of new sea wall. I reckon the amount of water coming over the railway into the road is similar to the old sea wall days- admittedly perhaps in slightly less severe weather. Any improvement therefore is not absolute, just a matter of degree. In the meantime.....still no Voyagers.


I had my first look at dawlishbeach.com's cameras around 0945 two hours after high tide and the new sea wall was displaying its achilles heel- the occasional up thrusted wave's spray being blown onto the tracks by the gale force wind. I noticed what is 802109 in the up platform at Dawlish on the 0835 PLY-PAD and it's still there 2 hours later with the passengers just having been evacuated seemingly.
Ian U


It was still there at 13.00 I think and 07.04 Padd-Pgn similarly failed having passed Teignmouth. Shameful in terms of the money having been and still being spent on the wall and the inability to make waterproof trains! JH


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Sea wall - Posted: December 7, 2021 - 4:06 PM Quote and reply
It looks like the 0804 Paddington to Penzance was terminated at Exeter, and they sent it to Dawlish to rescue 0835 Plymouth Paddington.

Unfortunately, the rescuer failed approaching Dawlish - under the San Remo camera. All three trains were sufficiently dried out that they were all able to move at around 1400.

I don’t know if it’s relevant, but high tide was at around 8am and yet all this happened around two hours later.

David Ashley - Editor, Milepost
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