In the early morning of the 4th of April; the first trains to run along the sea-wall at Dawlish since the lines closure due to the winter storms ran. Just before 6am, the first stopping train pulled into Dawlish station and the station full of the local great and good and half the countries media welcomed it. It wasn't too long before trains started to run in both directions, a Virgin Cross-Country and a 43, First Great Western were two I 'spotted'.
The cost to the region has been huge and the timing, just before Easter couldn't have been better for the regions hard-hit tourism sector. The only question left now is the one of the future. Are we to see anything of the diversion routes, and if so... when?
Images Copyright Andy Thompson
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