UK storms wash away main railway line

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UK storms wash away railway line and leave thousands without power

VIDEO: Waves hit Dawlish railway station

Is this the UK's most beautiful stretch of railway?

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What is the future for Dawlish rail line ?

"It's England that's cut off from Cornwall, not the other way round", claims Cornish comedian Kernow King

This Cornish offering is presumably inspired by "An apocryphal British newspaper headline [which] supposedly once read, 'Fog in Channel; Continent Cut Off'. It has also been claimed that this was a regular weather forecast in Britain in the 1930s" (Wikipedia).

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Aerial photographs show savage scale of main train line damage at Dawlish

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New pictures of Dawlish rail breach - 150 years ago!

It's happened before! These pictures show the main rail line at Dawlish when it was battered and breached by storms in October 1865...

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Call for "breaker reef" to proect Dawlish rail line from storms

Network Rail in 'complete denial' about rail vulnerability

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Can UK transport networks cope with floods?

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UK storms: Aerial pictures of train travelling through floods

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Video of repair work on Dawlish railway

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Dawlish railway could open sooner than anticipated

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In pictures: Dawlish restoration

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Proud rush to repair 'the hole' in Dawlish coastal train line

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Storm-hit Dawlish: Where could a second rail line run?

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Induced landslide operation planned at rail track in Dawlish

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Firefighters pump water to force controlled landslip at Dawlish rail damage site

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Aerial video shows ongoing work to Dawlish landslip (video)