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Title: Dawlish tunnels Post by: chrisoates on February 09, 2011, 20:10:29 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355185/Luxury-mansion-1-METRE-cliff-edge-Dawlish-south-Devon-landslides.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355185/Luxury-mansion-1-METRE-cliff-edge-Dawlish-south-Devon-landslides.html)
Look at the second picture - you can just see the back end of a Pacer entering the tunnel - the landslip also looks very undercut (rail replacement bus anyone ?) Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: devon_metro on February 09, 2011, 20:18:39 That's what you get for living on a sandstone headland...
Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Chris from Nailsea on February 09, 2011, 20:21:18 Quote It is thought the falls may be due to normal coastal erosion caused by factors like the sea undercutting the cliff base. You don't say?? :o ::) Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: inspector_blakey on February 09, 2011, 20:42:31 Look at the second picture - you can just see the back end of a Pacer entering the tunnel - the landslip also looks very undercut (rail replacement bus anyone ?) Apologies for pedantry, but it's the front end of an HST ;) I'm slightly amazed though that anyone could pay GBP1.75m for a house that had already lost its garden over the edge of a cliff in 2007. You'd hope the surveyor spotted the imminent danger of the whole job sliding into the sea... Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Phil on February 09, 2011, 20:45:33 See that little house in the far left of that same photo?
That's my cousin's house, that is. Stayed there only a few weeks ago :) Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Chris from Nailsea on February 09, 2011, 21:03:58 I'm slightly amazed though that anyone could pay GBP1.75m for a house that had already lost its garden over the edge of a cliff in 2007. You'd hope the surveyor spotted the imminent danger of the whole job sliding into the sea... Ah ... the ill-fated Home Information Packs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Information_Pack) ... ::) Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Henry on February 10, 2011, 08:54:17 ''Salvage: The owner is getting civil engineers to examine the cliffs in a bid to save her home.'' A bit of under- pining perhaps !!!! Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: devon_metro on February 10, 2011, 11:43:00 Interesting that this house is less than 10 years old...
Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: paul7575 on February 10, 2011, 12:38:49 Useless journalism - "the earlier landslip was described as the length of two double decker buses".
Surely eny fule kno that the correct units for volume should be 'Olympic sized swimming pools'? Paul Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: JayMac on February 10, 2011, 13:51:33 I thought the standard measurement of volume was yer Royal Albert Hall. Or is that the old imperial version?
Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: inspector_blakey on February 10, 2011, 15:17:12 Fortunately for the property owner (not to mention residents of Devon), the landslip did not bring an area the size of Wales crashing down into the sea.
Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Tim on February 10, 2011, 16:17:24 See that little house in the far left of that same photo? That's my cousin's house, that is. Stayed there only a few weeks ago :) You must be the first person to spot something to the "far left" in the Mail Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Phil on February 10, 2011, 19:56:07 ;D ;D ;D you got me there - nice one!!
Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Chris from Nailsea on February 10, 2011, 23:58:56 A video news report (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12424134), from the BBC:
Quote Sea view moves closer for Devon house The owners of a luxury cliff top home in Dawlish, Devon are counting the cost after a landslip caused large parts of the garden to crash around 130 ft into the sea. The house, bought less than two years ago for ^1.75m, is now perilously close to the cliff edge. Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: The Tall Controller on February 11, 2011, 18:54:45 A video news report (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12424134), from the BBC: Quote Sea view moves closer for Devon house The owners of a luxury cliff top home in Dawlish, Devon are counting the cost after a landslip caused large parts of the garden to crash around 130 ft into the sea. The house, bought less than two years ago for ^1.75m, is now perilously close to the cliff edge. I predict a 'steep fall' coming! Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: woody on February 12, 2011, 17:09:02 A video news report (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12424134), from the BBC: Quote Sea view moves closer for Devon house The owners of a luxury cliff top home in Dawlish, Devon are counting the cost after a landslip caused large parts of the garden to crash around 130 ft into the sea. The house, bought less than two years ago for ^1.75m, is now perilously close to the cliff edge. I predict a 'steep fall' coming! Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: chrisoates on February 12, 2011, 21:42:18 Was up there yesterday and got a poor photo - looks worse from low down
(http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/3173/dawlishslipf.jpg) Title: Re: Dawlish tunnels Post by: Chris from Nailsea on February 13, 2011, 20:47:30 Thanks for posting that, chrisoates - it's not a bad picture at all - and it shows just how 'close to the edge' that house was built. ::)
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