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Exeter & Teign Valley Railway
Приєднався 4 січ 2018
Beneath the Carriage Floor
As part of the General Repair of MUSSEL 4768 in 2022, a hatch was put in the floor beneath the seats so that budding permanent way and mechanical engineers could watch the behaviour of the wheels, particularly on the severe curves of the narrow gauge layout at Christow.
Viewing the running gear is not possible on standard gauge carriages for some reason, but being able to see the motion of the bogies beneath their feet, especially on the remaining jointed track, might just be enough for some passengers to lift their gaze, momentarily at least, from their control screens.
Viewing the running gear is not possible on standard gauge carriages for some reason, but being able to see the motion of the bogies beneath their feet, especially on the remaining jointed track, might just be enough for some passengers to lift their gaze, momentarily at least, from their control screens.
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Wooden Sleepers 6
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The train has reached line speed from Barnstaple Junction and runs onto the remaining jointed track between there and Chapelton. The length subject to a speed restriction in "Wooden Sleepers 5" has since been re-laid with continuous welded rail. Suddenly, the noise of the engines can be heard and the near-perfect ride is apparent.
Fullabrook Down
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Fullabrook Down Wind Farm lies high above Braunton, in North Devon. Its 22 turbines are capable of generating up to 66 megawatts of electricity. A Community Interest Company, detached from the station's owners, distributes grants to good causes in the surrounding area. "The Fund started with £1 million when the wind farm began generating electricity in 2011, and a further annual payment of £100...
The Dawlish Débâcle
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A compilation of television newsreel and documentary clips, recording the disastrous breach of the railway's sea wall at Dawlish, the subsequent eight-week blockade and the triumphal reopening of the line in 2014. The engineering work is rightly given prominence but it is not overlooked that there was feverish activity behind the scenes as controllers dealt with the unprecedented disruption. Ha...
Wooden Sleepers 5
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A few at Christow is fascinated by the movement of corridor connections, especially when accompanied by the beat of jointed track. This train has just slowed for a 30 m.p.h. permanent way slack (nowadays called a T.R.S.) on the North Devon line. Halfway through the film, the engines are heard powering up and the train accelerates to line speed - sixty. Peace is restored as the train runs onto c...
"DA-Day"
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Devonshire Association Industrial Archaeology Section Group Visit 6th June, 2023 Twenty-five members of this longstanding and esteemed learned society graced the railway on a beautiful sunny afternoon. The venerable Bernard Mills was invited to come along as a guest. Thanks are due to Bernard for some of the stills and to Dan for the video clips. The Chinook flypast had been arranged.
In Praise of BecLaWat
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It’s likely that this pattern of balanced drop window was in use before the war, certainly on the continent; but if its origin was with B.R’s. first standard carriage of 1951, then it would now be over 70 years old. It is testimony to a simple, robust design that this window was later fitted, unchanged, to B.R. Mark II and Mark III carriages. When the Mark III was introduced, having to open the...
Wooden Sleepers 4
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Here, a Class 158 "Express Sprinter" is recorded running from continuous welded rail onto the length of jointed track between Lapford and Chenson No. 2 Crossing, depicted in "North Devon Ramblings 11."
Codden Hill
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After riding up the hill from Umberleigh Station and visiting Cobbaton Combat Collection, the scout climbed to this wonderful vantage point above Barnstaple. As well as misreading the inscription on the monument, the scout went badly wrong with his description of the panorama. Just when he says, "It's hard to see anything that's worth pointing out ... ," he pans past some very striking hills. A...
Flight of the Humble Bee
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First came the Italian Vespa - wasp, in English; the Ape - bee - followed. "Flight of the Bumblebee" composed by Rimsky-Korsakov. Direction and filming by Dan.
Fallen Leaves and Wild Flowers
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The idea at first was to make runs beside the river capturing the changes over four successive seasons. As the winter of 2021 was unremarkable, with no scene of snow or flood, it has come down to a simple contrast between autumn and spring. Ordinarily the track would have been mowed by mid-May but this year the gang was lazy. So it was harder work for the donkey pushing the trolley. Some stills...
Turning Circles
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Filmed entirely on E. & T.V.R. premises using the fitted "insurance" camera, the manoeuvrability of the railway's utilicon is shown off in what are actually some quite small spaces. The turning circle of BEE 2309, the three-quarter ton diesel in service since 2007, is two feet greater than BEE 2247, the half-ton petrol-engined vehicle of 1982. The larger cab of the later type slightly reduces s...
Conicity
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One of a series of films demonstrating first principles to those (young people) with an engineering bent. Or "Colin's Party Piece."
Around a Railway Yard in Flip Flops
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Some clips from a video shot by one of the railway's favourite campers in 2007, with stills showing how things have changed. Music Title: Romance www.hooksounds.com/royalty-free-music/romance/1762269/ Title: Through the Clouds www.hooksounds.com/royalty-free-music/through-the- clouds/1721481/ Title: Still www.hooksounds.com/royalty-free-music/still/1770908/ Title: Flowers www.hooksounds.com/roy...
Moretonhampstead and Teign Valley Branches
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These journeys along the branch lines of East Dartmoor are taken from 8mm cine film shot in 1958. The film is of unknown origin and is posted here because of its historical value. Anyone claiming the copyright or wishing to be credited should inform this channel. Recent random rambles along both branches can be found here: www.teignrail.co.uk/scouting/49-moretonhampstead-branch/ www.teignrail.c...
Farewell to the 143s (Listen to the Flats)
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Farewell to the 143s (Listen to the Flats)
That's fascinating uncle Colin xxxxxxxx xx
The whole reason for the collapse at Dawlish and rock fall at Teignmouth was down to years of neglect by Network Rail and British Railways.
That's amazing uncle Colin xxxxxxxx
Lol @ weather out of control.
Great filming of a golden age.Who ever is responsible for filming this footage one word " Thankyou" .A bonus as well for my personal research is you caught Chudleigh Station.
When railways were the motorways of that time, smooth and fast, compared to the potholed motley roads, before everything went to pot, great memories luckily captured on film.
that is comical in the best way, and the music, despite being well known, could have been written especially for this video. I do believe I've seen this vehicle at least once opposite my home in the car park at Sainsburys in Newton Abbot. I was aware of the site in the Teign Valley, but it looked deserted when I last went there in the early 1990s. Unless I'm mistaken as to its exact location, I seem to recall some sort of very large decompression chamber being there, quite bizarre!
Yes, this one or its older stablemate used to be left at Sainsbury's, sometimes all day, while the driver cycled to the station to catch a train.
In days when it was no problem to put a parcel on a regular passenger train service. But I suppose this was possible given that even the smallest station was constantly staffed by at least one person - who would have lived on site aswell. 'Unmanned' stations simply didn't exist! I wasn't around back then, but I get the impression things seemed much simpler, and more 'allowing'. Common sense prevailed, rather than excessive bureaucracy, and 'jobsworthy' people. Great archive film btw!
Institutional thinking and throwing good money after bad and the conciet of BR selling off the land GWR bought to build an inland route
Cameron, the human jellyfish, who laid down his country for his life.
All the North are shouting welcome to our world with services 😂
Debacle 😂😂😂😂😂😂
There has been some seriously short sighted cuts to the UK Rail Network and we all should know why…..Beeching, Tory Cuts and Privatisation.
I live in Buckinghamshire and have witnessed what has & is still being wasted on HS2 … redirect some of this money to reinstate the North Route via Tavistock. I visit Dawlish Warren & Dawlish on a fairly regular basis .. and the alternative route is still needed .. even here in Bucks .. re-instating the link between High Wycombe and Maidenhead (by re-building the the line to Bourne End) would be a far better use of money .. especially with The Elizabeth Line now running through Maidenhead .. this link was actually severed post Beeching!
How Tragic.
No mention has been made of the closed route via Heathfield from Exeter to Newton Abbot. Reopening this would provide an alternative to the sea wall route via Dawlish. It would be nice to see the Okehampton - Tavistock route reopened too, but reinstating the Heathfield line would alleviate the problem.
The inland diversionary route is covered in detail here: www.teignrail.co.uk/political-campaigning.php#dawlishdebacle
We gave the railway to the world, other countries through out the world have moved on and modanised there railways, on the other hand this useless country has do nothing except put fairs up .
My first grand son was born in February 2014 in Cornwall. I traveled from Somerset to Cornwall by car and I came back by train and coach. Got the coach from Plymouth to Exeter. It was fine.
'you dont think it could happen to you' what, every day when you look out your from window at the ocean metres away? 😂
I’m a bit confused. People commenting seem not to know the problem was solved some time ago. A new sea wall did the trick.
Thankfully globull warming was over. It never happened again.
Who narrated this programme please?
The narrator of the clips taken from Channel Five's documentary, "The Railway," is Paul Copley.
If you think you recognise the voice and watched Downton Abbey, its the chap who played Mr Mason. I recognised the voice and couldn't initially place it.
When was the British weather ever under control ?
there should be two new rotes, a tunnel for fast trains to Newton abbot, and a northern route for stopping trains. Then, you could build a new double track to plymouth to separate slow and fast trains. more better trains & more resilience.
Since this was made Dawlish has been ruined by ugly, new sea wall that has about as much artistic merit as a sewage works.
Constantly repairing the sea wall is a nice, guaranteed nest-egg. Who would want to replace that with a logical solution that would provide a permanent solution?😉
Problem is that the cutting edge technology is slower than the original NAVVIES with their picks and shovels!
Yes, they were proper hard working real men. I watched a documentary about the canal navies and it said they consumed around 20,000 calories a day. No HS BS, no bright orange vests, no bureaucratic crap. They just got the job done.
How much longer are the travellers in that area going to suffer before the idiotic powers that be that the line must be rerouted - millions have been spent on HS2 which would aid some rich people - were as Dawlish effects a complete agree of the UK, OH I GET IT, IT DOES NOT EFFECT LONDON DIRECTLY - SO IT DOESN'T MATTER? LONDON IS INUNDATED WITH RAIL LINKS AND MILES OF UNDERGROUND COTROLLED BY A MAYOR WHOSE ONLY IDEA IS TO TAX - TAX - PEOPLE IN LONDON. WHATS HE GOING TO WHEN PEOPLE CANNOT GET TO LONDON AND MASSAGE HIS EGO - UK MONEY MUST BE USED FOR ALL NOT A SELF ENTITLED FEW!
Hippercrits! Thay worrey about the Economiey thay shut dowen the UK for over two years not giving a dame about the economiey or about how people got around? Send for the Chinees thayed have built with in HRs? We BRITISH are still living in the Stone Age has far as building go.s Come to think of it there isant enneything good about my country 😢😢😢?.
Sure the Chinese do things their way and get things done sooner...when in China, complying with what few employment protection and construction safety laws they have. Presumably as a Brit you'd rather have "got Dawlish done" in a week on Chinese wage rates and on your Chinese employer's terms and conditions...and ending up more likely to seriously injured or worse.
2014? Video looks like 1986 😳
11:00 Has me wondering about the organisations of england/ britain. WIth the railway crew having an urgently pressing mission to protect/ rebuild the track..... they appear to be protecting the contents of a private house instead. I agree that assisting folks is a noble venture, but aren't there volunteer emergency services in the UK to assist those in need as a result of disasters? Tally ho.
In fairness, I think all they were doing was rescuing some things that had fallen into the void, which the next tide would take away.
Why were the men not roped together, when they went there at high tide?
Rebuild the line on stilts and let the sea run under the line.
Absolutely ludicrous location for a rail line.
Why didnt they move the line inland, surely its cheaper in the long run than repairing it every single year
This is why don’t build your tracks on weak ground on a costal shoreline without removing the weak materials and switching it with much stronger materials, as this video shows what happens when you over estimate natural.
Billions spent on HS2 from Birmingham to London, a journey route which already has an existing service, yet nothing for a fully operable alternative route down to the far reaches of Cornwall. Absolutely disgusting!
Great video and great work but, who wrote the narrative… they are using special remote controlled camera… a drone. Came up with an ingenious way to overcome the problem….they put the locos on low loader…
The "narrative" is word for word, as far as I could tell, what is being said. I agree that putting locos on lorries is not new or ingenious.
Crazy place to put a railway line in the first place‼
Crazier still to leave it as the only surviving one, and close two alternatives!
I read that Brunel didn’t intend that to be the main route, Tavistock, Okehampton was meant to be.
Brunel was engineer to the South Devon Railway and it was his job to build the line that eventually went to the far west and served the fashionable resort of Torquay. As one who remembers riding the route north and west of Dartmoor, I feel it would have been a great shame if another company had not eventually built the second main line to Plymouth.
God Bless you Dave for what you do for ALL of us Congrats to ALL
Looking at the critical failure even from the perspective of a destroyed structural sea wall, this was a very nasty problem. Add to that both the requirements of a very busy rail plus road link built on top of it, this would have hit the structural team hard. Even the fate of the temporary solution (with shipping Containers filled with hard core) you can see how much damage the waves can cause. In retrospect, repositioning the whole line, may have been the only long term solution, but that would have involved a whole new line design and profound problems for people living on this coastline. I did work in heavy civil engineering decades ago. But never on transport links or coastal sea defences, they require amazing skill and the work can be very high pressure, because of site access and vulnerability. This project had ALL the possible major problems, plus fantastic time pressure and no way to plan ahead in fixing it. What a project.
In the life of the wall, the more years that passed without a major breach, the more complacency developed. Before 2014, Network Rail was saying that no problems were foreseen. Now it is arguably spending too much on the weakest points of a generally vulnerable route. The video was put together as a record of the event and of the triumphal resumption of service. Questions, criticism and analysis will be published separately on my web pages.
@@exeterteignvalleyrailway6713 Quite rightly, the immediate response to organise and then complete the sea wall's reinstatement plus the highest-priority cliff face works in such a short time was a triumph worth. Equally relevant is all the follow-up work in the nearly nine years since then to strengthen the sea wall and stabilise the cliff faces further. How long until this more robust railway fails the "once in 100 years storm" test no one knows, but at least the effort and budget put into it killed off any past "complacency"!
This is the main railway line down to Cornwall and likely to happen again at the sea in Dawlish in the future.
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The steel rails are still there... 5 mph - steady as she goes - it'll be fine, ladies and gentlemen hold on to your coffee cups!!!
This looks like peanuts compared to what the Dutch are doing and have done since the North Sea Flood in '53. I guess it'll be an ongoing battle.
Yeah, the Dutch are the best in the world when it comes to building sea defences.
This video only covers the immediate works done to reopen the line. A helluva lot more has been done since to both wall and cliffs. The wall includes a concave profile to minimise overtopping and is proving effective in recent storms.
What I’m trying to understand why nobody thought that building a railroad practically on the coastline was going to be problematic….not that I’m anyway an expert on engineering far from it,but one would think that there had to be somebody who could recognize the inherent problems coastal railroads would face particularly along a beachfront…I’ll admit I could be terribly wrong and I’m not trying to offend anyone but I’m simply staggered by what looks like a lack of foresight for what is (at least to an ignorant peasant as myself )an obvious engineering problem from the start…..(scratching my head)
Brunel, the world famous civil engineer, looked at the range of hills that stands between Exeter and Newton Abbot and decided that a level estuarine and coastal route, serving more settlements, was preferable. He judged that it would be little troubled by the sea, as the prevailing wind was south-westerly and strong south-easterlies were rare. He also judged that sand cover would protect the wall and keep wave action to a minimum. On the whole, the line has been quite reliable. Severance wasn't such a problem when there were two diversionary routes available. These days, the trains are the weakness, being susceptible even to sea spray.
@@exeterteignvalleyrailway6713 thanks,it makes sense now, I guess it’s just a matter of changing weather patterns,wear and tear of the infrastructure and erosion….again thank you for the insight…
@@exeterteignvalleyrailway6713 We should also point out that he built this section as the atmospheric railway too, and that keeping the line as level as possible was key to the route. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Devon_Railway_engine_houses
Actually, the atmospheric system was chosen because, not relying on adhesion, it was far more suitable than locomotive power for the severe gradients that lay beyond Newton Abbot.
@@exeterteignvalleyrailway6713 Fascinating, I'd always assumed it was the other way! Well, as they say, you learn something new every day. You may correct me on this, but am I correct in thinking that before the World War II the Great Western had bought land to move part of the route away from the sea? To be honest, as many have stated, I don't understand why, for the money the Dartmoor line was reopened.
"Bury the line underneath the repair" -- that'll bollox up some Archaeologist in 200 years' time.
The manufacturers' names embossed on the rails and sleepers will be a giveaway🤣
Archaelogists are unlikely to have access in 200yrs. If they did railways are well recorded. 2000 yrs might present a problem.