Photos and determination to save the railway carriage camping at Dawlish Warren

Mary Cullen of Dawlish remembers many happy family holidays on Dawlish Warren. Her family travelled from Manchester, and always stayed in the railway camping coaches.

Outside a railway camping carriage at Dawlish Warren

Inside a railway camping carriage at Dawlish Warren

As soon as she received my email about my unsuccessful bid persuade Historic England to give the site historic status, Mary replied:

Don't give up I'm not ,we will have to try another track ,I will study the email and try to come up with something else ,thanks for letting me know ,Mary

Sent from Mary's iPad


 Mary phoned later, to say how helpful the owners are - the Great Western Railway Staff Association.
They don't want the site closed, but they need a solution.

Mary is 89 years of age. Thanks Mary. 

The site will be for sale. Perhaps a team of enthusiasts will buy the site and run it? 

Emily Sheen from Historic England is still trying to help. She suggests that we contact the Teignbridge Conservation Officer, so I have emailed Maureen Pearce, and copied the email to Tracy Baker, General Secretary of the Great Western Railway Staff Association. I have invited representatives from both to our meeting on March 9th, so that perhaps we might have someone knowledgeable to lead our discussion about the railway carriage camping site