Even Brunel’s Railway Couldn’t Cope
The Exeter to Plymouth line is one of the UK’s most spectacular railway lines. Or should it be was, as eighty metres of it have been washed away at Dawlish?
This report in the Exeter Express and Echo has some amazing pictures.
Brunel generally got his engineering right and seeing that the line opened in the 1840s and I can’t see any reference to a breakage of this nature before he didn’t do too bad.
But it does show how fierce the seas must have been!
Let’s hope that Network Rail had a plan ready for an emergency, such as happened last night.
February 5, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | Energy, Transport/Travel | Brunel, Dawlish, Dawlish Weather Problems, Devon, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Network Rail, Trains
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