Dawlish News
New tourism websites for the town have now been launched for Teignmouth and Dawlish. www.loveteignmouth.co.uk and www.lovedawlish.co.uk can now be found online, with technology that works on PCs, tablets and mobile phones. The websites are solely aimed at promoting the town to tourists. Peter Cross, of Presents and Chairman of the Teignmouth and Dawlish CIC, said “the first thing we all ...
STUDENTS from Ratcliffe School in Dawlish were taken on a special tour of Taylor Wimpey’s Cranbrook development in Exeter to help them with their GCSE studies. The eight Year 10 pupils are currently studying construction materials and wanted to visit the leading housebuilder’s new development to find out more about the different building materials used on site. The group was shown around ...
Gatehouse Primary School in Dawlish will see its dream of getting rooftop solar panels come several steps closer if plans to build a solar park at nearby Ashcombe get the go-ahead. The school has signed up to 10:10’s Solar Schools campaign, and needs to raise over £13,000 to install its solar panels. Solstice Renewables, who are developing the solar park, is donating £300 towards the fund ...
Dawlish Town Council has handed out over £10,000 in grants to get the town back in business after the rail collapse in February. The track and part of the sea wall was badly damaged in storms, cutting off the service linking Cornwall and much of Devon with the rest of the UK. Councillor Michael Clayson said the grants were to show that Dawlish was open for business after the storms. The ...
Last weekend saw 40 junior Octopush players from Dawlish, aged 9 – 18, make the long trek to Leeds to contest the British Underwater Hockey Age Group Championships, they had a small army of parental support to facilitate. The competition raged for nine gruelling hours on the Saturday as the round-robin stages became play-offs and, at last, finals. Some of the matches against the very best of ...
I'm not having a go Stephen, I just think some people are unaware of some of the travel issues we have down here. Yes there are coaches for schools but, for instance, if your child goes to the Grammar School in Torquay and have already paid for a huge season ticket on the train and then initially the coaches don't run early enough, this is not good enough. If you work in Plymouth and can only ...
Stephen - do you actually live here? Did you try and get kids to school, get to work?! Earlier bus/coach - you're having a laugh. I couldn't meet my work colleagues for the period of railway being out of commission.
Yes but if you have to get somewhere by a certain time (especially work) it's not always convenient. I still don't understand why people further down the line shouldn't have an opinion. I may be a yokel but I can still understand others points of view.
@stephen15 i think anyone downline of dawlish has a lot to say about the rail service, ask anyone who relies on the train to get to work in plymouth or beyond by a certain time each day and then ask them how it worked to take a bus instead! i'm not sure you'd say they were unaffected.
Re-inforcing the current Dawlish line could cost between £400 million and £700 million, the Network Rail report is expected to say The Government will today effectively commit to spending at least £400 million to ensure there is never a repeat of the main Devon and Cornwall railway line collapsing into the sea at Dawlish. Ministers will publish a report produced by Network Rail following ...
