Westcountry Storm Teignmouth And Dawlish Rail Damage Feb 2014

Westcountry storm damages rail track at Dawlish February 2014. Big waves at Teignmouth in Devon facing towards Dawlish where the track is washed away, causing delays for trains from London to Penzance. Rough seas hammer the sea wall and create huge plumes of spray. Gales sweep the South West of England with winds of upto 85 miles per hour causing severe damage to walls, buildings and sea defences in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
0:00 Waves crash into the railway line towards Dawlish
0:28 Sea wall at Teignmouth - Huge waves
0:50 Teignmouth Seafront and pier - stormy seas & big waves
1:25 Railway line sea wall at Teignmouth with big waves
The environment agency is criticised over UK storm damage prevention measures and flooding in the Somerset levels as hundreds of homes are evacuated there and here in Dawlish.

[@MonthlyFailsOutreaching]

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[@derisleybrittain]

Excellent 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@adrinathegreat3095]

It's a pity things like this don't happen more often, I remember heading to Dawlish to watch all the fun and the roads were jam packed with sightseers hoping to see Dawlish turned into the new Atlantis

[@bluebell662]

Are you here

[@malcooool]

was down there from york this year on motorbike,4 times,,and see wall never reopened

[@stuartfraser1856]

Why did Brunel build a railway in such a stupid location?

[@glynnwright1699]

Much of the interior of Cornwall was virtually impassible until the late 19th Century. The gentry would travel by coastal paddle boat from London to their vacation houses in Devon and Cornwall.
The Cornish inland routes were primarily for pack horses, which is why the roads are still narrow and sunken to this day.
The expense of an inland route could not be justified as the primary function of the GWR was part of the world's first integrated transport system that took European migrants, arriving on the East Coast ports of England, to Bristol and thence by steamship to the East Coast of the USA. Everything beyond Bristol had much less economic significance.