Storm washes away railway line in England

Many thanks, Nicole.

wow....part of the  seawall gone!!  thanks Nicole....puts perspective to my whining about the big snowstorm were got here in western PA......

Thanks for the link Nicole.  Gives a whole new meaning to flex track.

Wow, what a shame, that is my favourite British line. It's beautiful journey in nice weather. BTW Nicole, my grandfather was born in Dawlish.

Wow...too bad.  If this is a main line, at least they will rebuild it...too many here

washed away were not rebuilt.  Somebody must be sticking pins in Europe's dollies.

We get all kinds of hurrricanes, blizzards (now in progress), and tornadoes, but I

even heard of a tornado and flooding in France, where serene weather usually prevails among the grapes.  Do not usually hear about stuff like that in Europe, at least,

anything less than Mt. Etna popping its cork.

Such a lot of damage.  Thanks for letting us know about that.

Thankfully, there was not a train involved.  I would presume that there was some concern before the seawall actually collapsed and traffic had been halted.  I presume they can stub-end the line on both sides at the next stations and bus passengers to/from/through Dawlish until the line and the seawall are repaired.  That's inconvenient, to be sure, but fortunately not catastrophic.  Let's all hope that the weather and tides permit repairs to be done safely and in the least possible time.

Reports indicate about 80M of track, sea wall and Dawlish station itself damaged and that it could take six weeks or more to reinstate again

Trains do indeed get splashed from time to time:

I heard about this, and went to the Dawlish webcam to see what I could see, but it is not operating.

http://www.livestream.com/rcdawlish

John:

Unfortunately, the Dawlish webcam has been removed. I believe the owner/operator moved out of the area.

Bob

Wow...thanks, Bob. That's too bad, as I used to see a bunch of interesting trains on that webcam, as well as people walking with their dogs on the strand.