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UK storms wash away main railway line

Posted: 05 Feb 2014, 15:50
by John Ashworth

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Posted: 06 Feb 2014, 20:05
by John Ashworth
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).

Re: UK storms wash away main railway line

Posted: 07 Feb 2014, 15:15
by John Ashworth

Re: UK storms wash away main railway line

Posted: 08 Feb 2014, 14:37
by John Ashworth
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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Posted: 10 Feb 2014, 13:59
by John Ashworth

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Posted: 11 Feb 2014, 10:41
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Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 15:08
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Posted: 28 Feb 2014, 21:16
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Posted: 01 Mar 2014, 07:11
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Posted: 07 Mar 2014, 14:25
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Posted: 10 Mar 2014, 19:50
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Posted: 12 Mar 2014, 19:07
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Posted: 14 Mar 2014, 20:36
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Posted: 17 Mar 2014, 19:30
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Re: UK storms wash away main railway line

Posted: 23 Mar 2014, 10:42
by John Ashworth