Dawlish avoiding lines1936-7

A look at the route of the proposed GWR Dawlish avoiding lines.

[@SpoonyMcSpoonface]

According to Peter Kay’s book The Exeter to Newton Abbot Railway the last of the land acquired for the deviations was sold off by BR in 1985.

[@stephensaines7100]

Love your videos! Beautifully shot. It's like revisiting the area as well as fascinating history.

[@jamesgilbart2672]

Fascinating to think what might have been! All the civil engineering to fulfil such a proposal would cost billions today and so is highly unlikely to ever happen. For a diversionary route, it would be wiser to reconnect Bere Alston with Tavistock and then on to Okehampton