Feb 062014
The train line at Dawlish has collapsed after the recent storms (early February 2014) – details here.
Having travelled that part of the railway several times, I can say that the train line just there was always vulnerable and this sort of damage was pretty inevitable. Of course it needs to be repaired whatever happens.
However in the long run, it is time to think of moving the train line somewhere further inland. Fantastically expensive of course, but quite possibly cheaper than doing a patch up every time a storm washes away the line over the next 100 years.