Devon/Dawlish Railways 2008/2009!! 90 Photo Collection

[almark]

Hi all,



http://mark-walker.fotopic.net/c1775052_1.html



I have basically spent all evening putting this gallery together for your enjoyment,instead of making it so you have to flick through 10 or 15 collections i have added all my best photos into one collection for you to look at!! I have taken some of my personal best photos in Dawlish this year,this has encouraged me to put them all together.....




I hope to some of the other local (and the not so local) photographers on this forum it will act as a bit of a photo guide so you know the best spots in the Dawlish,Starcross,Cockwood,Teignmouth areas.

Featured Locations:
Hollicombe Cove,Torquay
Preston,Paignton
Newton Abbot,River Teign,Industrial Estate
River Teign Estuary
Teignmouth sea wall (Parsons Tunnel)
Top of Dawlish (66197 shot),please ask for details if you don't know how to get there,or any other of the locations for that matter!!
Dawlish Marine Parade
Dawlish station
Dawlish,Coastguards Bridge
Dawlish Coastguards Jetty
Dawlish Rockstone Bridge
Dawlish Warren,Red Rock
Dawlish Warren footbridge
Dawlish Warren station
Cockwood LC
Cockwood Harbour
Starcross station
Starcross Car Park
Powderham LC
Stoke Canon (3 miles north of Exeter)
Whiteball (about a mile into Somerset)

Highlights:
Engineering on the Dawlish Sea Wall (Day and night)
37605 on the sea wall
D1015 at Powderham
57605/47375 at Dawlish Warren
Mainline Blue liveried 60011 at Dawlish Warren/sea wall with departmental train
66074 at Cockwood Harbour with Departmental train
5029 crossing the River Teign at Newton Abbot
47818 at Powderham
57603 at Cockwood LC
66624 at Dawlish Warren x2
47580,D7612,20110 and 33002 on 0V47 from Eastleigh-Buckfasteligh
47580 at Cockwood LC
66080 at Cockwood LC
66080 at Powderham LC (Around a year earlier!)
66731 at Rockstone Bridge
RARE!!:60082 at Dawlish Warren
66137 at Dawlish Warren
70013 'Oliver Cromwell' at Powderham and Teignmouth
67029 on managers train at Starcross
31285 at Dawlish and Starcross
66136 at Powderham LC
57012 at Cockwood LC,Dawlish Warren,Hollicombe and Preston (Paignton)
66723 at Starcross and Rockstone Bridge
66230 at Cockwood Harbour
LAST EVER (until preservation!) Double Valenta HST on the Dawlish Sea Wall!
60163 'Tornado' at Whiteball,Teign Estuary and Britannia Crossing (Kingswear)
47826/851 at Dawlish Warren and Powderham LC
67005 at Dawlish
66197 at Dawlish
2009 Carnival Trains,Class 67s!
Loads of photos of DMU's and HSTS too!


I know that is quite blatently the most shameless plug you have ever seen but it is just me showing what variety Dawlish and the surrounding area has had over the last 2 years....



http://mark-walker.fotopic.net/c1775052.html



Please enjoy the photos,
Mark

 

[Adamtorbyaexpres]

Mark, these are the best rail photos I have ever seen...

 

[mumrar]

I like the collection a lot. A good variety of workings, and of course a good variety of the English weather. I've always wanted to spend a weekend down there, but I don't know if I could do the area justice really. That and every man and their dog has been there for photos too.

 

[Roni]

Wonderful!

 

[almark]

Thanks for the comments guys



Cheers,
Mark

 

[devon_metro]

Lovely collection, you've been very lucky with the weather indeed.

 

[almark]

Thanks Liam,bear in mind these are just the 'Good' days or interesting workings lol

 

[devon_metro]

I can't remember any good days

 

[almark]

Come to think of it,i did spend most of the summer sat on the sofa looking at a dripping drainpipe!!!