Dawlish - The Storm

Saturday Cinema - the cruel sea.. everyone in the world knows what happened to the GWR (Great Western Railway,or,as many will say, God's Wonderful Railway) railway line from London to Penzance. As it passes through the glorious county of south Devon it runs along the coast in a bold engineering feat of the time. Throughout it's 120+ years of service it has had minor and serious floods but it still stands...the storm of 2014 was most severe and caused serious damage to the track bed and seawall. A team that was called 'the Orange Army' descended on it and worked for about a year to repair it and now it's better that it ever was. Here is a contractors film showing a lot of what was never shown to a wider audience. They had to hire the Haven Seariser 4 platform so as to access the sea side of the wall. Dawlish is in what's termed the English Riviera...it catches the warm air coming up from Spain and Portugal (can't remember the name of them) and is a great holiday area..it's the land of Fawlty Towers (just up the road in Torquay), as yet it's still unspoiled and the land-ladies are most obliging to working gents.... if you ever get the chance to go there take it...you'll love it!