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, ...

The Dawlish train line has reopened after strong winds and heavy rain battered the coast. There were no trains running between Exeter St Davids and Newton Abbot this morning after the station was ...

Unique challenges presented by the exposed Dawlish sea wall railway line have driven engineers to create pioneering new techniques and materials never seen before anywhere else. Now, eight years to ...

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 ...

A missing man from Devon was arrested at a railway station yesterday (May 21) after trespassing on the tracks and causing hours of disruption to train services. National Rail took to X (formerly ...

Work to protect the Paddington to Penzance mainline at Dawlish in Devon has been put on hold, the government has announced. Ministers said they had "already invested significantly in securing the ...

The UK’s Network Rail has confirmed that the reopening of the South West’s main Dawlish rail link will be delayed by further two weeks, due to the impact of damage caused by storms. The railway ...

Opening of the first section of the new Dawlish sea wall. Credit: Network Rail. The UK has opened the first section of the new Dawlish sea wall built to protect a key stretch of a rail link connecting ...

11:27, Wed, Jul 9, 2025 Updated: 11:36, Wed, Jul 9, 2025 Crucial works on a train line have been put on hold by the Government. The line from Paddington to Penzance, which stops at Dawlish in Devon, ...

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 ...