It wasn't that bad, when the railway was built. Isambard Kingdom Brunel thought he had done enough to keep the railway safe, back in the 1840s and 1850s. Since then climate change has caused sea levels to rise and part of the sea wall got destroyed a few years before this video.
Dawlish has some great rail video taken during storms because the footage is so dramatic and beautiful. I realize that this line was once considered to be an engineering feat, too. However, the poor commuters must be unamused by the beauty and the power of those storms if they get a soaking. It must get old.
But are there enough lifeboats on board to accommodate all the passengers? Yes I know it's not supposed to sink, but... that's what they said about the Titanic too, wasn't it? 😉
One thing I remember about riding in DMUs - they were always warm inside. In conditions like these, the arrival of the train must have felt like salvation.
Fantastic vid, brilliant and well done. Diesel loco got in and out no problem, remarkable. That would not have happened if electric train was only option under those conditions.
Surely it's about time that Network Rail investigate an inland route around Dawlish now? It seems to be every year and every storm either disrupts or at worst closes the railway? I'd say build a new route away from the coast and turn this into some kind of nature reserve or beach
Honestly, I'm surprised they don't rust more, here in Scotland those SuperSprinters rust quite a bit, that sea must take it's toll on the infrastructure and trains more than just the snow and off salt runoff from platforms and roads we get here
yeah. In winter they won't suffer any more than in summer, but also, most of the time they aren't being battered by storm waters, usually it's nice and sunny
They shouldn't put the shore so near to the sea. ;) (Yes, I'm just being silly. Because it's fun to be silly sometimes) So, I guess this is the middle of English Summer? :D
Very nice. Using Google Maps I could zoom in satellite view. There is quite a wide swath of beach that in this video appears to be inundated with with ocean and waves. I could identify the station in the google imagery easily from the distinctive roof tops of the station buildings.
The 802 trains are bimodal. Electric as far as it goes and then switch to diesel for the rest of the way, just past the signs that say 'beware Dragons'
No problem for steam locomotives ('cept for crew swept out of their cabs and coal blown off the shovel ;-) but delicate diesel electrics? Early GWR crew must have struggled as they had barely a spectacle plate to protect them. Crazy.
The train in the video is a "super-sprinter" diesel hydraulic. As already pointed out the voyagers have had issues on that line. It will be interesting to see how the new bi-mode "intercity express" trains cope.
It goes red at the end of the video if you watch right to the end. There is always an overlap beyond the signal to protect the rear of the train before the signal turns to green. This seems to be a very long overlap possibly because the linespeed for non-stop trains is high? Or the signal engineer wanted his axle counter outside that rather wet area!
Filmed in August ? Why don't they build a tunnel structure over the station? Bit like an avelanche structure you see over mountain roads in Alps? Surely, standing around waiting for a train like that is no way to treat customers.
yes they only bring them out at busy times...(okay, no they don't. This unit is a class 153, which all began lives as 2 car class 155s. Most 155s were rebuilt into many single car class 153s which could either work on their own, or in multiple with other 153s or other units.)
Funny that the Great Western Railway were going to build an avoiding Line in the 1930's but due to the Yanks going into economic depression we can only blame the Yanks and Mother Nature for the various cancellations around Dawlish
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Very impressed by your clean, litter-free platforms!
The waters washed it away
Exactly!
Lol
Litter doesn't stand a chance.
🎵🎶“Litter is better, down where it’s wetter, under the sea.”🎶🎵
that station must be a maintenance nightmare :) 10/10 would live there just to watch trains going through waves
What a great little video, love it. Some of my favorite things, trains, the sea, the weather.
Great video, gives a good idea of reality on coastal railways. (Imagine being footplate crew in the steam days, that must have been misery.)
It wasn't that bad, when the railway was built. Isambard Kingdom Brunel thought he had done enough to keep the railway safe, back in the 1840s and 1850s.
Since then climate change has caused sea levels to rise and part of the sea wall got destroyed a few years before this video.
Just a normal West Country day... Can't see what the problem is...
In the summer
The tracks are there in case the train’s rudder fails.
Water will always find it`s level, no matter what`s in the way. That`s just nature.
Dawlish has some great rail video taken during storms because the footage is so dramatic and beautiful. I realize that this line was once considered to be an engineering feat, too. However, the poor commuters must be unamused by the beauty and the power of those storms if they get a soaking. It must get old.
Thanks DBC! That was fascinating...never seen the like before. Your efforts on our behalf are much appreciated. Best wishes, Rob.
there lifejackets under your seats please put them on thankyou
But are there enough lifeboats on board to accommodate all the passengers? Yes I know it's not supposed to sink, but... that's what they said about the Titanic too, wasn't it? 😉
I travel on that line every day to work. Love seeing the sea this rough.
One thing I remember about riding in DMUs - they were always warm inside. In conditions like these, the arrival of the train must have felt like salvation.
Fantastic vid, brilliant and well done. Diesel loco got in and out no problem, remarkable. That would not have happened if electric train was only option under those conditions.
This is a top-class video, and I hope it is referred onward to an internet competition, perhaps entitled 'Here & Now".
First prize for the UK's cleanest train station
Don’t know why this came up on my recommended but I’m glad it did, loved it
It must have been a challenge for the steam train drivers and firemen with the open cabs.
Brunel's idea to build the railway from Exeter to Plymouth next to the sea through Dawlish. Perfect on a hot summer's day, but not in winter.
Great Video love it ,i have only ever been to Dawlish Station in the Summertime so never Witnessed bad weather there.
Don´t build an ocean so near to the tracks XD
Wow, I'm surprised they didn't just close the station!
The trains run unless it's very bad.
You just feel like saluting to the train as it leaves the platform after it gets a moment of calm in the station. Good luck back out in the waves \o7
I'm amazed the trains actually ran. Around London, leaves of the wrong color falling on the tracks causes cancellations.
Thanks for holding the vid unit 'landscape'
Good vid.
Scary, yet beautiful.
Surely it's about time that Network Rail investigate an inland route around Dawlish now? It seems to be every year and every storm either disrupts or at worst closes the railway? I'd say build a new route away from the coast and turn this into some kind of nature reserve or beach
Everytime we stay in Plymouth we always go on train to dawlish but always been great weather for us
Lovely to hear them all laughing!
This is at sea level. Cars in Whitley Bay 40 feet above sea level get soaked by the rough seas at high tide
I thought we were going to see the view from inside the train. It does say "commuting".
Victorians... Victorians did not think of coastal erosion as when they built the station, it was half a mile from the sea.
4:17 Class 153 Great Western Railway: Quickly! We need to get to Safety at Penzance Immediately!
well done for a excellent vid. that poor 153 must have got battered to death going down that line. lol.
Honestly, I'm surprised they don't rust more, here in Scotland those SuperSprinters rust quite a bit, that sea must take it's toll on the infrastructure and trains more than just the snow and off salt runoff from platforms and roads we get here
@@karlosbricks2413 I think that maybe it has something to do with warmer weather down there.
yeah. In winter they won't suffer any more than in summer, but also, most of the time they aren't being battered by storm waters, usually it's nice and sunny
@@karlosbricks2413 aye, the scotrail trains just seize up in a bit of rain lol
They shouldn't put the shore so near to the sea. ;) (Yes, I'm just being silly. Because it's fun to be silly sometimes)
So, I guess this is the middle of English Summer? :D
@@chazbaz4519 or fall as the Americans say
BaIT Noddrix yes RAINFALL
Very nice. Using Google Maps I could zoom in satellite view. There is quite a wide swath of beach that in this video appears to be inundated with with ocean and waves. I could identify the station in the google imagery easily from the distinctive roof tops of the station buildings.
so... not an electrified service I presume.
Look at the DART on the southside of Dublin. It's as close to the sea as this is, but electrified.
@@ruawhitepaw The DART is close to the sea, but mostly a bit higher than this, so it gets fewer splashes, I think.
The 802 trains are bimodal. Electric as far as it goes and then switch to diesel for the rest of the way, just past the signs that say 'beware Dragons'
We have had a lot of cross country cancellations because of there train build
Wow, spectacular scenes. Thanks for the vid.
Bit choppy for Warships . Like Swindon works acetylene torches !! ,,,,,,,,,,,I'll get me coat before the "onslaught" of abuse ?
Collapse s and new line built .dawlish nice place . you could catch train from Brum to there happy holidays there back in the day.
I wish I could live there to storm watch!
Fabulous footage! Has a carriage ever caught the full blast of a wave when the doors are open?
Yes, longer trains do not fit under the canopy.
Been there, luckily not in such stormy conditions.
4:04 one of my best mates there doing the announcement. Loves working at Dawlish he does!
No problem at all with a good British duffle coat and a pair of tall, or hip rubber boots ...
the power of the sea
No problem for steam locomotives ('cept for crew swept out of their cabs and coal blown off the shovel ;-) but delicate diesel electrics? Early GWR crew must have struggled as they had barely a spectacle plate to protect them. Crazy.
I think one of Mr Branson's 'fake Pendilinos' came to a halt with salted-up electrics and wouldn't restart
The train in the video is a "super-sprinter" diesel hydraulic. As already pointed out the voyagers have had issues on that line. It will be interesting to see how the new bi-mode "intercity express" trains cope.
Did no one notice that most of the train was missing?
It shrunk because the water was the wrong temperature
Pedantic nonsense alert ... Shouldn't that green light switch to red after the coach passes?
It goes red at the end of the video if you watch right to the end.
There is always an overlap beyond the signal to protect the rear of the train before the signal turns to green.
This seems to be a very long overlap possibly because the linespeed for non-stop trains is high? Or the signal engineer wanted his axle counter outside that rather wet area!
I’d love to try that trip out in a storm!
I would love to take a train trip during one of those storms.
you can get the same experience by going through a car wash, really. It is pretty much the same.
At least the tracks are getting a good wash down
they have always clean trains and platforms....
Freakin nuts. Would a breakwater not have made sense to reduce the impact along the shoreline?
Move along now, plenty of room.... wait further down the platform, but don't cross the yellow line until the train stops! 😆
Lord God blesses you in these times
What nice weather. When the weather you should have the day off with PAY
This it the reason why Class 220 aren't allowed to go on this route in storms as the water damages the electrics.
They travel along there every day used by Cross Country.
when you take the train to the beach but the train is the beach
I remember when the platforms shown here were wooden!
Why does it take so long for the signal to become red?
so probably not the most ideal location for surfing ?
Filmed in August ? Why don't they build a tunnel structure over the station? Bit like an avelanche structure you see over mountain roads in Alps? Surely, standing around waiting for a train like that is no way to treat customers.
Its not very busy and there isnt a storm everyday its calm and picturesque most of the times. It would destroy the character of the station i guess.
Overtopping is a Dawlish tradition!
Great video
Why is the signal at the end showing green when clearly its totally not a free block?
Looks like it goes red at the very end of the video.
Turned out nice again!
Bon Voyage, 153361.
So, I gotta ask. How often do fish get stranded on the platform?
Truely appaulling that this is the only rail route to the South West.
Where is The rest of The train ? I Saw only 1 car
Perhaps it's adrift in the ocean. ☻
Many local service trains in this area compromise of just one or 2 car sets. The long distance "intercity" trains can be as long as 8 cars.
If the seagulls don't mind, then neither do we!
Ocean on the line
I would have called in sick that day
The only place in the world where trains are delayed due to seaweed on the line
Of all the flavours.. You chose SALTY
Raise the foundation of the station
A one coach Train..........There's something you don't see everyday!
yes they only bring them out at busy times...(okay, no they don't. This unit is a class 153, which all began lives as 2 car class 155s. Most 155s were rebuilt into many single car class 153s which could either work on their own, or in multiple with other 153s or other units.)
You crazy going that side didn't you get drenched ? Lol
Nossa! Realmente fica difícil esperar o trem nessa estação
Who puts a train station near a Sea 🌊 that’s very Dangerous
This will be a thing of the past soon
No wonder this Railway fell apart a few years ago due to this .
i imagine the salt water shortens track life.
I’d love to live there, to be honest...
It's boring.
Funny that the Great Western Railway were going to build an avoiding Line in the 1930's but due to the Yanks going into economic depression we can only blame the Yanks and Mother Nature for the various cancellations around Dawlish
A wind filter would be appreciated
Good spot for car wash.
Ahh the typical British summer.
Where is Dawlish?
DDD BBB south west of England near Plymouth and Penzance
I wouldn't call it "near" Penzance, though it is on the only line to Penzance. The rail network west of Exeter is woefully lacking.
Cool man, cool.
It's just the RHTT 😂
What graphics card is this recorded on?
You record things on cameras, not graphics cards
Record things with potatoes
Amazing....
was so much better before they raised the wall 😞😞 when you was on the Train use to feel like you was skating along the sea
The wall hasn't been raised yet. Work is due to begin in the next few months
must be a shortage of WD40 in that town lol :)
Splash zone!
good to view. ta
Whoa...
this is really bad
Take that
Who else lives here