Guided tour of the new sea wall build at Dawlish railway station
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2021
- Jack from BAM Nuttall give us a 'behind the scenes' look at the upgrade work happening at Dawlish railway station.
We get to see the new wave returns being installed and Jack shows us the complex drainage system.
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Most impressed by your guide Jack Brooks and his command of all the fine details. A man really on top of his job!
Indeed he is.
Walls like this one will be probably in constant maintenance as the nature, the sea has a destructive force.
Impressive work. And so many walls need to be built.
Great to see the progress - thanks for this
Amazing stuff.
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Very informative. Thank you.
Excellent, thank you.
Thank you for this video - it is fascinating
I do hope that this heatwave is not causing the concrete to go off unevenly, two things setting concrete does not like, frost and heat.
Why on earth are the concrete castings coming all the way from Ireland? There must be suppliers capable of doing the Job much closer to Dawlish and not in the EUSSR.
Intriguing, when doing my block/brick/lego walls, always interlock every course for added strength - why have i been wasting my time all these years?
Using your analogy, what they are doing is supergluing their lego walls (metal tie bars) and infilling the backside with a plastic resin (solid concrete, in layered pours). The wall will be plenty strong as is.
Amazing. I bet old Isambard Kingdom would be very interested and possibly quite impressed?
I was in Dawlish 3 weeks ago
Great video Neil and a thorough tour and explanation of the work Jack. Must get myself down for a visit soon!
How far down is this wall going, to the rock that sticks out between dawlish and dawlish Warren
About 3/4 of a mile.
Without the railway there would be no starcrosss no dawlish
Being built to last.
You never told us how they get all that concrete into such a small place?
We mention it in the previous video. It's pumped under the railway line. They made long bore holes under the station.
Looks a bit like the Berlin Wall to me.
No choice but to holdback the sea
As a second comment with those walls being so high will the people on the trains still see the beautiful views that were once afforded to holiday travellers in the 60s. Or will they now just view the rear of that concrete monstrosity.
Network Rail seem to have missed the point here, yes it may stop the sea from damaging the track but the public beach will now be virtually unaccesible as with all that concrete you have failed to put in any access routes to the beach. The Victorian infrastructure lasted 160+ years this I doubt will last more than a few decades and has destroyed the beauty of one of Britain's most loved scenic structures. The vandalism of Brunels infrastructure with this Lego set is totally unacceptable.
I thought the entire point of a sea wall was to protect the rail line and to a lesser extent the town?
If visitors to Dawlish can no longer have access to the beach it will kill Dawlish. Brunel’s wall was just stones and cement lasted 160 years. This is massively over engineered even with rising sea levels. Bringing precast concrete from Ireland, somebody’s had a big back hander on this job.
Was there access before thought the railway was in the way
@@anonimouse4678 Yes a wide walkway under the railway for families to access the beach. Obviously that had to be modified to protect the integrity of the new wall. A new ramp as at the far ends of the wall would not have been difficult. As I understand form various videos this has not been included.
The railway company own the beach at Dawlish so I suppose they can do what they want.
So glad i took family photos of old Dawlish beach before this vile network rail butchery, tne entire project doesnt give a hoot of the aesthetics of what its replacing
Fascinating to see over time but it is such a shame just how damaging concrete is for the environment.
750mm & harnessed? FFS, didn't you millennials play in tree`s as kids? 🤣