The secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin, witnesses the force of the sea at Dawlish with Network Rail's route managing director Patrick Hallgate and future chief executive Mark Carne, ...

The UK’s Network Rail has reopened the South West’s main Dawlish rail link following completion of eight weeks of repair works. The west country’s main rail line had been closed, after the winter ...

Following the latest severe storms last weekend, Network Rail has updated its estimate of the time it will take to restore the railway at Dawlish. It has now advised that the railway will be repaired ...

Major £30m plans for a new sea wall at Dawlish to protect the railway for the next 100 years have been approved – and work could even begin next month. Network Rail’s long awaited plans to improve the ...

David Cameron has paid tribute to an "orange army" of workmen after they completed a £35m repair project on the badly damaged rail line at Dawlish. The Prime Minister was in Dawlish to deliver on his ...

The UK’s Network Rail has confirmed that the South West’s main Dawlish rail link will be reopened by 4 April, two weeks ahead of previous estimates. The West Country’s main rail line had been closed ...

Unique challenges presented by the exposed Dawlish sea wall railway line have driven engineers to create pioneering new techniques and materials never seen before anywhere else. Now, eight years to ...

Ten years have passed since a powerful storm battered the South West of England, leading to the evacuation of homes and the destruction of a railway line. The tracks at Dawlish were left dangling by ...

The railway line at Dawlish in Devon is due to reopen at the end of the week, Network Rail (NR) has confirmed. The coast-hugging stretch of line was severely damaged in this winter's savage storms and ...