I've just received this:
DAWLISH RAILWAY OPENING
FRIDAY 4TH APRIL, 0900
Dawlish railway station will hold a celebratory event to welcome the reopening of the railway line and arrival of passenger trains into Dawlish.
There will be live music from a brass band and refreshments. The event is open to all and will begin at 0900 in the station car park.
In addition to this, there will be bunting throughout the town and music until 4pm at the bandstand to keep a lively atmosphere in the town centre.
Thanks Lynne
...and helpfully it looks as though the weather will actually be fine on Friday...
Great news .. I need to use the train Friday evening ...so now I can.
Hope after all the expense of getting the track back nobody will ever complains about the price return to Exeter £2.65 with DCard again! ...you cant get far in a car for that money!
Now prove you all want a train service as thoughts in power turn to looking at what they do should problems happen again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03zcvjw/The_One_Show_02_04_2014/ last nights one show showing the work they have done to get to this point, you have to skip through a bit
Nice one Roberta, thanks. Yes skip to the 48min mark for main feature.
Not technically correct in the clip to say it withstood 'hell and high water for 170 years'.
Landslide - Could say it was very lucky to have happened when the railway was closed anyway.
Amazing what £15million buys! Even 'water bombing' helicoptors.
One of the interesting points is that the NR man quoted it as 'a solution for 4 to 10 years'!!!
What isn't very clear in that comment to me, having played it a couple of times, is whether that time span refered to the breach area in particular or the 4miles of wall more generally. If he means the breach area that surprises me - i.e. hopefully a little conservative considering the tonnage of concrete. If he means the wall generally, then in truth I see no particular reason why the same wouldn't happen again, but just a bit further along, next winter or whenever the next serious storm decides to strike. That then makes it a weather statistic rather than an engineering based statistic.
Without wishing to sound too negative, I would have asked the more pertinent question, 'if we have the same severity of storm next winter what is the chance of a breach somewhere along this 4mile stretch?'
Anyone know Mike Gallop (NR man) well enough to clarify this point?
Also on a H&S note, I hope the worker directing the high pressure hose standing at the top of the slip had a line attached to him!!
Sorry, clip is also relevant at 11.30mins for first feature.
Seems from the answer on the BBC is 200years for the breach (happy days for those houses) and therefore 4-10years for the rest of it.
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