Network Rail has rebuilt the Dawlish Sea Wall and constructed a massive rockfall shelter south of the Devon resort. It was also planning to divert the railway along the Teignmouth Sea Wall, but that now won’t happen, so what’s planned instead? Nick Brodrick reports.
Extremes of weather - past, present and future - call for difficult choices to be made for Britain’s ‘Victorian’ railway.
That is certainly true for the stunning, yet problematic, four-mile section of the Exeter to Plymouth main line that skirts the English Channel - as we have already seen in the first two parts of this series examining the South West Rail Resilience Programme (RAIL 1008 and 1010).
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