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Plan B for the Teignmouth Sea Wall

Exposed to the elements: a Great Western Railway HST passes Sprey Point at Teignmouth, after leaving Parsons Tunnel, on June 4 2021. This stretch of line is at the mercy of cliff falls on one side and high seas on the other. ALAMY.

Network Rail has rebuilt the Dawlish Sea Wall and constructed a massive rockfall shelter south of the Devon resort. It was also planning to divert the railway along the Teignmouth Sea Wall, but that now won’t happen, so what’s planned instead? Nick Brodrick reports.

Extremes of weather - past, present and future - call for difficult choices to be made for Britain’s ‘Victorian’ railway.




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