Estimated Date. At this period there was often a GUV on Motorail service leading the train.
This rather nice panoramic view has been taken from the bridge linking this part of west Teignmouth to the little riverside hamlet of Shaldon, with Teignmouth docks being in the far distance behind the train.
The River Teign is at an exceptionally low tide here, and the buttresses strengthening the track and its supporting wall at this location had to be built not long after the line was built.
This section of track is not, however, open to the ravages of the sea as is the line a mile or so the other sde of Teignmouth station, as this is the river, and not the open sea in the foreground of this view!