Storm Hits Dawlish Sea Wall so it's Time to Explore - Huge Waves Hit Trains 

This is a great test of the new sea wall. Seems to be doing very well.

It's great to see all that hard work paying dividends & very well done for braving the weather to post this. It was excellent. Cheers. 🌊🤩🤟

The power of the sea, thank you for getting soaked for us Neil, it's exhilarating even watching ! My lovely friend Lizzy who died of breast cancer far too young 9 years ago walked knee deep with me in that amazing sea froth on the promenade in Porthcawl during high seas then we had a bag of chips each & wine in the warmth of her flat to celebrate being alive together a few months before I lost her forever. Happy memories of her & the sea at its wildest brought back by your video.

The local council used to keep the groynes ( wooden barriers on the beach) that controlled longshore drift in good repair. Lack of funding caused them to stop. The beach that used to break the waves before they reached the railway was washed off towards Exemouth. The railway was undermined and partially washed away in 2014. Very expensive repairs to railway followed. Would have been a lot cheaper to keep the groynes in good repair!

Good way to test that new sea wall👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Your brave ❤❤

Living in the Arizona Sonoran desert, watching any sea storm is a wonder to behold. And this one is impressive. Thanks for submitting yourself to the ravages of nature for my benefit!

The tribulations you go through for our entertainment - thanks, BeachCamsMan!

Thanks for braving the weather.👍

this would be so much better without the music.

At least the road isn’t flooded now

This is amazing footage. Thank you for going out there just to show us all what its like down there. Im in north devon and we've not had it this bad as yet. Really appreciate your work. Many thanks x

In my first year in the Royal Navy in the early 60s, I was training at Torpoint, Cornwall. I regularly took the train from Paddington to Plymouth (a steam train then). From time to time we went through storms just like that - that's when you discover you have left the window open...(back in the days when you could open windows). Trains these days are much lighter, so breaking seas could have a bigger effect. That piece of line is regularly inspected to ensure it is not being undermined by the waves - once a breach starts it could become catastrophic quickly, but I am led to believe a project is being planned to stabilise the bank and add remote monitoring. The line is a key piece of national infrastructure, and rerouting it inland would be a massively expensive undertaking

I used to work in the care home at the end of that road….the cream building. Sometimes at night it was very scary listening to the powerful waves smashing the sea wall!!

Wow, that was incredible, thanks for sharing.

Great to see the sea wall doing its job.

dawlish my fav seaside town :)

Looks at those guys up on the cliff!!! Not all hero’s wear capes

Thankyou for braving the storm Neil...those slow motion shots are brilliant,,,,Take care .....Even had me ducking away 😂😂👍👍

Yeah was there for that. Jolly exciting.

Brilliant video

Brave soul to go out in that for us Neil! Thanks for the close up views of the storm. Wear your Welli's next time out.

Well done the designers, engineers and technicians who laboured to produce this wonderful structure.

Great that you were prepared to go out and film this. So the sea came over but it's a sea - this is not the usual is it and I am amazed to see other comments elsewhere that the Contractors need to come back - lol - what are they, Canute?

Brilliant vid, thank you.

Well at least this repair worked!

Ty for sharing 🎉

Always interested in Dawlish and the new sea wall. Love to see the power of water, but you MUST respect it, the most powerful element on earth especially with the wind behind it. I'd wash yourself off with freshwater as well if I were you. Salt water is no good for waterproof clothing, even Goretex. Thanks for braving it though.

At least the new sea wall got a severe test so the architects and constructors can be quite happy with how it past it’s storm test

Be interesting to see what remedial work needs doing at the end of the winter.

Thank you!

Thanks Neil

What I got from this video, Is the coast wet, Especially during a storm!🤯

One brave man ,wouldn’t catch me out in it

How about bungeeing yourself to the sea wall next😂

Great footage

Absolutely amazing have to say thank you for turning the camera back ….brilliant…

5:51 You should enter a still of your hyper-fisheye and enter it into local photography contests, Neil!! It is a remarkable image; a unique site done in a spectacular way- both a landscape and a self-portrait!! 🤩🏆

Walked along that road underneath the railway line to a boat taking us out on the seas in August. Lovely weather - then!😊

Wow that's stormy.

I remember going on the train to school in Teignmouth. When the waves were likely to go over the train the conductor used to give you a heads up to close the windows.

Gosh! Lovely. Amazing. Thanks. Stay safe.

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside and it looks like the seaside likes to be on the land to meet me.

Cracking job. Thanks for showing Dawlish., it still look good

Nice filming better than the bbc i love dawlish well done.

These days so much fuss is made about any storm. Back in the 1970s (1976?) there was a storm that was so ferocious it smashed the seaward side of Dawlish station to smithereens - my (long dead now) Grandparents used to have a house that directly overlooked the railway at Dawlish, my Grandmother sent me a newspaper clip headlined 'the 8:30 (or similar!) is delayed', which accompanied a photograph of the engine and first couple of carriages of an up train stationary at the exit of the tunnel just prior to Dawlish station - she told me it was still there at 1:30 pm.

Sorry ....I laughed when the waves got you 🌊

A pair of Wellies woudn't go a miss whilst wave watching!

Those vehicles being hit by salt spray must suffer I would have thought

Wow amazing 👍❤

Love your storm reports, and love the Insta360 extreme fisheye, tried it on my bike too!

Thank you amazing video ....

Thank you for braving the weather Coast Cams brilliant ❤😊xx

Loving the sea foam! My friend lives in Whitby (north yorks) and there is often a massive amount of sea foam there! We love it!

That Wave Return is genius

Some great footage there

Hi, a great effort for the wall and your self ,King Canute is a live .🤔❤👍

That railway track is always getting soaked, its had a few close shaves silly place to build it really, but nice views on it in summer.

So, no flooding at Marine Parade? Much Improved?

North Europe is getting it,family in Denmark have 800 homes under water in the small town they live in.

Ive been watching your channel for years now and I can’t wait to visit Dawlish for the first time. I just bought train tickets today for my December trip.

Wave at the camera!

Be safe

I was swimming in the sea at Coryton cove last Monday! This is spectacular footage. It’s good to see the new sea walls doing their job. 👍

Strange watching the train run the gauntlet

Surely, 4.2 metres isn't as high as the springs can get ? Torbay has had it rough too. Easterlies !

I’d love to be out there with him , fresh sea air would do me the world of good .

Not the crazy golf course nooo

Was hoping you would go across the new bridge, but maybe it's shut in these conditions.

tomorrow looks bad as well

This has got me wondering what the view is like from my usual short stay hotel (home from home) overlooking the sea from Babbacombe Downs. Thanks for the blast of sea air from this Paigntonian based in London!!

Of course we like sitting in our semi-warm houses, watching someone else getting drenched by over powerful waves, as is the way of the British stay at home residents.

Not a day for a sea dip ! I see the trains still get a good showering.

The trains need a jetwash on the way to newton abbot to wash the salt off them, have they built a gantry with automatic washer jets yet?. It will be interesting to see how much structural damage the new sea wall takes from this winters storms.

Who is Hugh and why is he hitting trains? 🤣

....and you managed to keep a smile on your face.... or was it a grimace ? 🙂

Not really a storm this is normal for this time of year.

Another excellent video this time the aftermath after wall is complete and does it actually do the job in keeping the waves at bay and is the station more protected now as those were nasty waves and probably not the biggest there to come

I used to live in Brighton and there was nothing I liked doing more than going down the beach when it was really rough and standing on the groin with the spray going over my head.

Great stuff. I enjoyed watching someone else getting drenched by a giant wave or three. 👍👍👍

just think its still over a meter down from a high tide that will come at the end of the month halloween could be fun

phhh ive seen spring tides higher than that at Boat cove.. When the waves hit six foot onto the top of Red Rock is when you can say its a storm.. thats just a spray..lol

So, what I take from this is never buy a car from someone who lives by the coast

IIRC the low air pressure associated with stormy weather does cause high tides to be higher. You'd have to fouble check with a meteorologist for the actual science of it...

It was a new moon on the 14th which accounts for the higher spring tides but what is it with storms and southerly winds coinciding with them, the luna and sun gods have it in for us.

The cars on the front must become rusty!!!

The predecessors of those beach huts were destroyed by another storm around 10 years ago... Meanwhile, I was at Exeter railway stations while this was going on and all trains along this route were being cancelled. Late afternoon, they announced the first train to brave the route after 7 hours, all stations to Penzance. The train was rammed full - people standing in the aisles - packed.

Whilst the structure of the new wall is doubtless amazing I personally think that the weak point in the structure are the gaps where whatever the contractors used to seal them has not the potential to last as can be seen, evenbefore Babet, where in many instances the 'seal' is missing, broken or not adhered properly and we all know (I imagine) what mother nature can do when it finds a weak spot - and there asre plenty of them - look for yourself if local.

I see that the wall is working .for now ..??

How often do storms like this happen?

What has happened to brunel Park camera

Doesn’t the rain spoil your camera.

Back home for a shower & a warm drink then Neil

You know you're mad don't you lol

What case are you using on your insta360?

During the reconstruction project I often wondered how that 'gap' under the bridge worked, to keep the sea coming inland and swamping the streets with seawater. Thanks for showing how it flows back out - not counting the frothy stuff haha.

organic matter or fairy liquid !

Wee!

Raw sewage.

Mind your step - STep STEP!! Sorry you got salty for our delectation!! Watch your step!