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Come on folks every discussion that involves Network Rail Goverment Ministers they all want a inland route the figures that are being talked about just to repair the damage to the wall and the rebuilding of the station platform are in the region of 300 to 400 million pounds that of course is for a proper job. But as you all know it will be patch and make do the media attention has already switched ...
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It looks as though everyone thinks every wall is better than the one we have but every wall has to be different the design depends on hundreds of variables tides,curents. depth of water, ocean floor type. is it sand. rock. a combination of both. prevaling winds and wave formations. If the wall above was the answer every wall in the country would be the same that wall is for that location its as ...
Mrs C I am a pensioner i dont use the train but i know the importance of the train service that not only serves Dawlish but serves the wider South West my daughter uses it every day to go to college my other children use it to go to Exeter, Newton etc etc. It is important we retain this service but what is the best solution for the wider South West a new line away from the coast with a local ...
Anybody remember the fire at Stonelands
Now theres a idea take the HS2 money to upgrade the sea wall with a single track while building a new line north of Dawlish for the west coast route. So we would then have a single track running from Exeter to Newton a Heritage Line to be run privatly maybe steam only any train drivers out there.
After listening to the experts in London talking this morning and asking for surveys to look at bird movements on the beach before any sea defence work is carried out beggers belief. After the tsunami in Japan they rebuilt 53 miles of highe speed line that had been totally destroyed in 2 months no red tape they just got on with it. The weather men are predicting at least 2 more weeks of Atlantic ...
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If you travel round the coast you will see the defences are all different curved walls, walls that slope with a curve a wall that changes as you walk along it curved one end 500 yds further on a flat wall the reason is every part of the coast is different beach slopes, tidal currents, rock sand, gravell, deep water of the beach sandbanks of the beach a thousand different combinations. Chris this ...
Chris Its not right but thats how it is always has been and probably will always be that way.
