Dawlish News

The signal engineer started digging at his Dawlish home in 2002

Engineer Allan Pyne, 56, has spent his life working on the railways - and for the last two decades he has also spent his time off digging with pick axe and shovel to create the narrow gauge, funicular railway, which pulls up to seven tonnes on a flatbed mineworking truck up and down the 1:4 incline beside his house. It uses a simple stop-go remote control.

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