The Dawlish train line has reopened after strong winds and heavy rain battered the coast. There were no trains running between Exeter St Davids and Newton Abbot this morning after the station was ...

The injury to a passenger after a wave smashed the windows of a train travelling past Dawlish has once again re-opened the debate about whether there needs to be a rail line that avoids the sea. When ...

Construction has begun on a new and bigger sea wall at Dawlish to protect the railway and town from rising sea levels and extreme weather for the next 100 years. In 2014, a storm caused a stretch of ...

Opening of the first section of the new Dawlish sea wall. Credit: Network Rail. The UK has opened the first section of the new Dawlish sea wall built to protect a key stretch of a rail link connecting ...

Several projects on Network Rail’s Western route were named the winners at the annual awards ceremony held by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) South West, including three in Bristol and one in ...

The UK’s Network Rail has commenced work to build the second section of the Dawlish sea wall, an £80m project conceived to protect a key rail link to the south-west. The Wavewalker arriving at Dawlish ...

14:04, Wed, Aug 13, 2025 Updated: 14:05, Wed, Aug 13, 2025 A decision to halt work aimed at preventing landslides on a railway line threatens to cut off parts of Devon and Cornwall from the rest of ...

A "NOSTALGIC" steam train day-trip from Southend along a picturesque route to the "English Riviera" has been announced ...