Dawlish News
A Plymouth-based train driver has won a European transport photography competition for his stunning photograph of a passenger train in Dawlish. Chris Hopkins of CrossCountry has won the Arriva Photo of the Year 2012 award for his dramatic image of a Voyager 220 at Coryton Cove. His image of the CrossCountry train nestled in between the magnificent red cliffs of Dawlish was judged alongside ...
New plastic Dawlish station footbridge opened and immediately listed! Newton Abbot MP Anne Marie Morris has officially opened the UK’s first Grade II listed plastic footbridge at Dawlish Station. She cut a ribbon across the steps to the new footbridge off the main platform at the seaside station on the south coast of Devon. The footbridge was part of a £1m improvement project which saw the ...
£25 in cash was found in Marine Parade and handed in to the Police Office in Brunswick Place. Later the same day a wallet containing more than £130 cash was also handed in. The wallet was found in the Strand by two Dawlish teenagers, despite the claims by two men stood nearby that they thought it belonged to a friend. The girls were not convinced and the wallet was eventually handed over to ...
Two of Dawlish pubs the Lansdowne and the South Devon Inn will soon be offering a cool new drink endorsed by the police. It is hoped by offering water to drink between sessions will help to reduce the effects of over-indulging and its associated habits of anti-social behaviour, violent crime and domestic abuse. 47 dispensers in the county have been paid for by nearly £12,000 funding by ...
Work will go on during Christmas to stabilise cliffs along the railway line between Dawlish and Teignmouth. Rail bosses confirmed it will be done when trains are not running along the vulnerable stretch of the line and services will not be affected Protective fencing, installed ten years ago has buckled under the weight of mud and rocks brought down after several days of heavy rain. It is ...
Composite Advantage LLC’s FiberSPAN™ fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) bridge deck was selected for Boston’s largest pedestrian and cyclist bridge project to date. Steel footbridge replaced with composite at UK railway station The railway station in the English seaside town of Dawlish has seen a corroded steel footbridge replaced with composite. This is the first composite bridge installed at a ...
Network Rail has announced that services to Plymouth and Cornwall resumed on Saturday after lines were reopened. This followed a landslip on the Teignmouth-Dawlish section on Thursday. Both tracks reopened at 5am today with a 20 mph speed restriction towards London and 50 mph from London. Up to 1,500 tonnes of soil, which fell onto track during the landslide, will have to be cleared by workmen ...
A TRANSPORT expert is calling for work to start on Westcountry rail links that were scuppered by Hitler 73 years ago. After train services to London were twice cut in the past week, Neill Mitchell is urging the Government to look again at plans for a new railway line avoiding Dawlish, which were drawn up before the Second World War. The rail line between Exeter and Newton Abbot was shut this ...
A POLICE community support officer has won a prestigious award. Debbie Sleeman, who patrols in Dawlish Warren, Starcross, Kenton and Mamhead, has received the commander's commendation from Supt Jim Nye at a ceremony at South Devon College. Her focus has been based on engaging with youngsters, concentrating on speeding and parking issues and going into local schools. See more...
A fresh landslip has closed the railway line linking Plymouth and Exeter at Teignmouth. The line, which was reopened on Wednesday after weekend flooding triggered a landslip, was closed again in the evening. About 1,000 tonnes of mud lying against a fence is also threatening the line. The main line from Exeter to the rest of the country has been reopened after flooding at Tiverton but ...
