of devon off from the rest of the country for several weeks. you might remember these astonishing pictures of the tracks in dawlish, dangling in mid air after the sea wall was hit by 80mph winds and washed away. in 2019, work started on construction of a new sea wall to protect the railway and the local community, asjohn maguire reports. a hairline crack appeared, and then throughout the day, itjust kept opening up and just kept opening up and the cracks just got kept getting bigger and bigger. you were standing onjust, like, moving land when we were trying to move the fences because the fences were there and the crack was appearing and we were open at the time. didn t quite know what to do. and people were coming in. we couldn t afford to close, so we were just ferociously trying to fence it off as it was moving, so that it was not a danger to anyone.
thing is they are doing. they are diverging a river, dawlish water, which runs through the centre of the town. as you can see, they have excavated a new channel and they will run the water out. one way they are protecting their line, the station and the town of dawlish from the ravages of the sea. coastal erosion a major problem around the uk coastline, for people, properties and businesses who are fighting against what he wants to do to make sure they can live their lives the way they want. a hairline crack appeared, and then throughout the day, itjust kept opening up and just kept opening up and the cracks just got kept getting bigger and bigger. you were standing onjust, like, moving land when we were trying to move the fences because the fences were there and the crack was appearing and we were open at the time. didn t quite know what to do. and people were coming in.
working and it needs a cultural change, probably at the department for transport as well. for transport as well. thank you very much for transport as well. thank you very much for for transport as well. thank you very much for talking for transport as well. thank you very much for talking to - for transport as well. thank you very much for talking to us, - for transport as well. thank you l very much for talking to us, mark. take care, good luck. in 2014, a devastating storm struck the south devon coast, destroying a stretch of railway and cutting cornwall and most of devon off from the rest of the country for several weeks. you might remember these astonishing pictures of the tracks in dawlish, dangling in mid air after the sea wall was hit by 80 mile per hour winds and washed away. in 2019, work started on construction of a new sea wall to protect the railway and the local community, asjohn maguire reports. a hairline crack appeared, and then throughout the day, itjust kept ope
weeks. you might remember these astonishing pictures of the railway track in dawlish dangling in midair after the seawall was hit by an 80 mph wind and washed away. i remember it well because i was there reporting on it. in 2019 work started on construction of a new sea wall to protect the railway and local community. here isjohn local community. here is john maguire. a hairline crack appeared, and then throughout the day, itjust kept opening up and just kept opening up and the cracksjust got kept getting bigger and bigger. you were standing onjust, like, moving land when we were trying to move the fences because the fences were there and the crack was appearing and we were open at the time. didn t quite know what to do. and people were coming in. we couldn t afford to close, so we were just ferociously trying to fence it off as it was moving, so that it was not a danger to anyone.