Tuesday 13th August 2024, 17:26
When I got to Dawlish I parked in a side street away from the centre and walked down to the sea wall to walk along there to the station.
The railway is very close to the sea
Storms have on more than one occasion damaged the sea defences and destroyed the railway line
The breakwater below the sea wall
Looking under the railway and pedestrian bridges from the breakwater
A sign under the railway bridge warns people not to venture nearer the sea during storms
But I bet people do. Certainly when my wife and I lived in Hastings, much further east on the English Channel, half the town would turn out when we had a good storm to stand on the sea wall and there were always those brave enough, or idiotic enough, to go out on the breakwater.
But here in Dawlish even the sea wall is dangerous:
