Exeter St. Davids
The Exeter St. David’s model railway was a version of Dawlish in OO that included Exeter St. David’s and Ilfracombe as well as the seawall at Dawlish. The track plan, as published in the “Plan of the Month” section of the March 2012 issue of Railway Modeller, is reproduced below along with a few photos.
The black and white photo above was taken by my Dad; the rest by yours truly.
The concept is similar to the Newton Abbot version of Dawlish in OO in that it features a continuous run along the seawall for watching trains go by. There is a terminus station at Ilfracombe rather than Kingswear in the new layout.
Another difference is that there are separate terminating fiddleyards for the Paddington and Penzance ends of the main line whereas the Newton Abbot one is a combined, through fiddleyard. The latter is more convenient for plug and play running a few trains without the need for turning locos or resetting positions if part way through a timetable session.
HST and IET at Dawlish in OO
This video shows four views of an Arriva Cross Country HST and First Great Western IET passing at Dawlish in OO. The video was recorded as part of testing a new timetable for Dawlish in OO, based upon the real published timetable for May > December 2023. Watch this...
17,000 views of Tour of my Dawlish Model Railway
According to YouTube, 17,315 people have viewed "A Tour of my Dawlish Model Railway" as of 28th March 2024. I'm not sure what I did to suddenly attract so many viewers, but thanks to all those who posted nice comments. These comments included: "I must say, very nice,...
First model railway track plan added
I've added my first model railway track plan to the Track Plans section of the website - Dawlish Warren. To see more information about this practical, fun to operate design, click here.
A tour of Dawlish in OO
Here you can take a tour of Dawlish in OO with a driver's eye view. This was filmed by putting a GoPro camera on a wagon in front of the loco. We start in the main fiddleyard (as if coming from Paddington) and proceed around the back of Newton Abbot, before emerging...
Site under construction
Please bear with me whilst I get this site up and running. Eventually you will be able to see: A full description of Dawlish in OO along with track plans A Dawlish in OO webcam showing trains running live Track plans for a range of other stations