We only learned it from a communicative guard in the morning.

Whilst running between Dawlish and Teignmouth the train was stopped by a warning given by someone who moved a torch to and fro right on the very track.

The driver had found on pulling up that just ahead of the train a small landslip had taken place, some of the red earth from the high bank having fallen away.

It did not however reach to the metals; and the driver had resumed his way, none too well pleased at the delay.

To use his own words, the guard thought "there was too much bally caution on this 'ere line!'" We arrived at Westerton about nine o'clock in the evening.