The UK’s Network Rail has reopened the South West’s main Dawlish rail link following completion of eight weeks of repair works. The west country’s main rail line had been closed, after the winter ...

The secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin, witnesses the force of the sea at Dawlish with Network Rail's route managing director Patrick Hallgate and future chief executive Mark Carne, ...

An underpass in a Devon town has been closed for work on a sea wall to protect a railway line from storms and rising sea levels, engineers have said. The Colonnade underpass in Dawlish was being shut ...

A project costing nearly £40m to help protect a coastal railway line in Devon has been completed. The work between Dawlish and Holcombe began in July 2023 and saw Network Rail install protection ...

Network Rail have unveiled their plans to protect 1.8km of railway between Parsons Tunnel and Teignmouth. The stretch of railway, which was closed for six weeks following a landslide in 2014, needs to ...

Network Rail has tried to enhance the resilience and reliability of the railway in the south west. Credit: Network Rail A new £82m government-funded sea wall will provide passengers in the UK’s ...

David Cameron has paid tribute to an "orange army" of workmen after they completed a £35m repair project on the badly damaged rail line at Dawlish. The Prime Minister was in Dawlish to deliver on his ...

Following the latest severe storms last weekend, Network Rail has updated its estimate of the time it will take to restore the railway at Dawlish. It has now advised that the railway will be repaired ...

Construction has begun on a new and bigger sea wall at Dawlish to protect the railway and town from rising sea levels and extreme weather for the next 100 years. In 2014, a storm caused a stretch of ...

Ten years have passed since a powerful storm battered the South West of England, leading to the evacuation of homes and the destruction of a railway line. The tracks at Dawlish were left dangling by ...

A coastal rail line could be moved out to sea to protect it from the weather. The main line near Dawlish in Devon collapsed and was washed into the sea during storms in February 2014. Work to raise ...