Dartmouth and Slapton Sands
A few pictures this time from Devon when we visited the steam railway at Buckfastleigh and Slapton Sands on a very windy day..
4277 On the line
I took this picture from the coastal path at Goodrington of the loco going past the beach huts and water slide park at Goodrington Sands.
Steam and a sandy beach
A great place to stand and watch the steamers pull up the incline
In the station at Kingswear
A fab steam train jounery, all along the coast and finally down the edge of the River Dart. This has to be one of the prettest lines to travel on.
On the car ferry
After our train jounery it was onto a boat trip!! Here the Kingswear ferry takes you across the water to Dartmonth.
The other ferry
Passing ferries in the middle of the River Dart
On the beach
We stopped here at Slapton Sands where the weather wasn't being very kind to us. The wind was really blowing and it was freezing. The sea was very rough.
Slapton Memorial
This memorial was given by the US Goverment to the locals who evacuated their homes and village to make way for the US Military to use the area for training for the Normandy Landings in June 1944
Sharman Tank at Slapton Sands, Torcross
This is a memorial to the US soldiers and sailors that lost their life while on a training exercise in the bay, whislt waiting to come ashore in their boats a German E-boat attacked them. This is one of the Sharman tanks that was lost that day, it laid on the seabed for 40 years before being recovered in May 1984.
The sea at Torcross
Huge waves crashing in
Not many people on the beach