Dawlish Sea Wall Upgrade Network Rail 4K UHD

Dawlish Sea Wall Upgrade by Network Rail is about half way through for Kings Walk in Dawlish. After months of foundation works and strengthening of the inner wall we are starting to see progress on the sea side of the wall now.

In total, over 100 panels will be installed at Dawlish over the coming weeks and residents, visitors and rail passengers can now start to see how the structure will look.

Once this phase of construction has been completed, Network Rail’s focus will turn to creating the wider, safer promenade which retains the views of the coast – a feature that the area is famous for.

Once the work to install and back-fill the panels is complete, track drainage will be put in, before construction staff then turn their focus to the promenade, where lighting, seating and surfacing work will be carried out.

Work is scheduled to be completed before the peak summer season.

(Network Rail)

[stephenwilliams]

An alternative route should be invested in. The old Okehampton Tavistock Plymouth line has long gone but a second route should be seriously considered. This Dawlish stretch of track is beautiful when the weather is calm but so exposed when we have brutal storms which now happen with more regularity. Trains have to terminate at Exeter and passengers are shunted onto buses to Plymouth to resume journeys into Cornwall.

[profbollo]

Excellent video, great to see the other side of the wall and the detail of the work

[andyml]

Thanks for posting - great to see progress being made. Tricky working environment for the guys special maintenance routines I expect for the vehicles working in salt and sand!

[imautuber]

I understand this wall has to be upgraded but it feels bad to me that the original wall has to be buried, its a work of art.

[grahamsmith]

Interesting to see the construction process.

[ericktaylor-webb]

Its an even flatter face wall the waves will run up that wall. at least i would have thought there would have been some curve in the wall. to direct the waves back out to sea and not flood the tracks as with that wall. the waves are going to have a field day flooding the track

[mark]

Ten standing and pointing, three occasionally doing a bit. Its going to take forever to finish that job.

[wamgoc]

So, they’re replacing that lovely old stone wall with horrible concrete slabs?!!
Such a shame!
Progress, you can keep it!

[BarnStrmer]

If you came here to see trains:
2:45
6:22
12:00
21:00
21:45

[barryroberts]

Should be finished by Christmas at this rate !!

[stephenlittle]

A Big Thanks for keeping us up with what their doing. Is the Top going to point back to the sea to force the waves back out. ?
But did I just see them put one piece up bring a new one down and then take it back up ????. How about timing it right. We who live here all have the tide table to hand. Yes. I even have an app.

[lindanwfirefighter]

I know this is off topic but you have summer birds singing already there? It’s beautiful to hear. We still have 4 feet of snow here and it’s dead quiet. This video makes me long for summer.

[sappersteve]

Health and Safety at its finest. Spot the worker up top undoing the chains on the excavator, crawling along his purpose built walkway(with railings) while his mate holds the other end?

[peterwhitear]

bet lynch is making a packet out of this work at the speed they are going or not going Japanese WOULD HAVE FINNISHED IT BY NOW

[bethdavis]

Does that mean when the wall is Finished train passengers won't see the beach?

[MadPaperPeople]

would be done in 3-4 days in Japan....

[SirHackaLt.]

Such a waste of money having all those people standing around. The two up top who are tied in, the one in the cab seem to be doing work. The rest? No idea. No wonder it takes so long to get any projects competed and the increased cost involved in keeping people employed standing around in orange.

[standrewpics]

I see there always will be a problem with The sea wall, with raising sea levels. The best option is to re open the old southern railway route around the north side of Dartmoor. But I guess the government are more interested in spending billions on HS2 than having a reliable railway route to and from Cornwall .

[rogerhudson]

Further along at the Warren there used to be a lovely old GWR ( the original)sign dating from the start of the line, it was in GWR cast iron lettering, cast as one piece, and it threatened that anyone taking shingle from the embankment would be prosecuted and could be sent to the penal colonies. Law and order 19th century style.
This part of the line was always a problem, Beeching shouldn't have closed the Oakhampton line that could divert around Dawlish.

[fletch]

Will they stop for the Summer like last year ?