Dawlish News
Thank you Margaret, always useful to hear of personal experience. Your observation that we are already a Cinderella service reinforces my concern that a local service to Dawlish would not survive the creation of an "additional" line to Newton Abbot. I still think we should ensure that all decisions are evidence based, and it will be interesting to know if weather related speed ...
Safeguarding our sea defences is one cost. Maintaining a railway running across the top is far more expensive. We kid ourselves if we imagine the route through Dawlish will survive if an alternative route between Exeter and Newton Abbot is opened. I wouldn't believe any politician who promised this when other demands on the Transport budget are bring made by vastly greater population areas. ...
It would be interesting to know how much faster the train journey to Plymouth would be if electrification was brought in? I ask because the other benefits of moving the line seem unproven against the alternative of spending less money to improve the protection of the existing line against long term rising sea levels. We can only spend the money once, and there seem to be so many other ...
Clive I appreciate that you are not a local person and won't be aware that the perfectly normal seasonal disruption that has caused problems on railway lines across the UK this week has been played up by some as proof positive of a need for a new line avoiding Dawlish. It's no basis for an informed debate on how we use limited infrastructure budgets to best effect. It's going ...
Dawlish station is now OPEN. I spoke to Mr Chorley from FGW. Station was closed for safety checks on the Canopy. They are now satisfied there is no damage, and the station is re-open. Disruption to Dawlish passengers, but no effect on the wider service as trains continued to run through all day. Important we make that clear otherwise people will claim this as evidence for Dawlish line to be ...
I think your question Lynne exemplifies the whole nonsense of the privatised mess John Major bequeathed us, and successive governments have failed to resolve. To split the management of one of our major transport systems between Network Rail and a whole patchwork of franchises across this tiny island is a recipe for muddle and inertia. Margaret is right, new rolling stock ( so often ...
As it says in the article, this is a problem unique to Voyager trains friends who work on the railway tell me that these particular trains are poorly designed with vulnerable electrical circuits that are too exposed. I'm told they break down when suffering bird strikes in the vulnerable area, whereas the older trains plow on regardless seems it would be cheaper to buy better trains ...
I wish it were true that Teignbridge were busy formulating plans for a new Bandstand. Absolutely no detailed planning had been done for a new bandstand. More of an aspiration than a plan. Hopefully the impetus given to this situation by the hard work of the Town Council will persuade the District to give the project greater priority. They will certainly benefit from the expert ...
@B2000F Just to explain to you and others reading that the following proposition was voted at the Town Council on August 19th That no further work is done to progress a stage two bid for the Town Council proposals; That the current application is withdrawn once the Planning Officer recommendation and supporting rationale has been published That the Sustrans bid is a matter for ...
Sorry if I wasn't being clear Dorian my comment about aesthetics was general, not about this specific site i don't think I should get into detailed discussion online about a private situation, suffice to say that TDC are aware of the poor state of the property.
