Interesting. I haven't seen the area this wet. Much of the tramline runs alongside the west bank of the river Axe, with the old village of Axmouth usually visible on the far, east, bank at the seaward end. Seaton itself, where the tram starts, is actually on the sea coast, with Axmouth slightly inland on the other side of the river. On the same side as the tramline as it come up the Axe estuary is the Seaton Wetlands nature reserve, which is basically a bird sanctuary closed to pet dogs. The wooden structure at 6:57 is one of the bird hides in the nature reserve. A smaller tributary the river Coly joins the Axe near Colyford - which I think is at around 14:40 in this video. Then in normal conditions the tram runs on away from the Axe to the historic small town of Colyton. But on this day I think the way was too flooded, so they head back down towards Seaton. A lot of these Devon settlements are very ancient, with the same or recognisably similar names for many of them appearing in Domesday Book, a Norman tax survey of 1086 AD/CE. Earlier the Romans stalked the Axe valley, but archaeologists don't agree about where their main base and port actually was. The coast position and river mouth has probably moved significantly in the last 2,000 years, washing away evidence or hiding it under the sea. All too plausible on a day like this!

It's a shame the original railway embankment next to the river wasn't built a few feet higher, even just two feet would have made a difference. I noticed the main road at Colyford was flooded also.

Superb footage. Many thanks indeed.😀

They are going at a fair speed, brilliant!!!

Neat Car 02 tramride (Michael poole works for Modern Electric tramways LTD

I wentj on that tramride back in 2006 enjoyable

The only time I have been here, was in 1972ish. It had just started running to Colyford? There was an old cast urinal at the end, and a crossing. They never went passed the crossing. Lovely day, and would love to go again, but age is against me. Well done to all involved, it looks a great long ride now. I was involved with building a trolleybus museum up north, so understand what it takes.

I had the privilege of driving for a couple of seasons 45+ years ago. I don’t recall the section through the Amazon rain forest.

Wow flooded the crossing, no tram spotting then😂

Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to spare.

Geez is that a tram or a boat? Amazing they'd go through that amount of water up above the sleepers, surely there's risk of washout?

That river water level looks frightening, I expect high tides were slowing it from draining into the sea. I'm sure you passed Noah's Ark somewhere along the straight section?

Seaton Tramway is a dream that I will never see live because expensive flight from the Netherlands.

Was the caravan park by the river under water as well.

high water

When was this taken

Wouldn't the water cause damage to the electric motors on the trams.

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