NETWORK Rail has announced it is to work on painting a white line along a further section of the sea wall in Dawlish.

The rail company has confirmed it will be working overnight over several weeks on a second section of white line.

This will run from Rockstone footbridge to Langstone Rock and is aimed as a warning to pedestrians of the unprotected edge of the wall on the exposed stretch between Dawlish and Dawlish Warren.

The line painting comes after the deaths of two people in the last three years in fall from the path.

A spokesman for Network Rail said: ‘Subject to confirmation from our supply chain partners, we aim to have this work completed by the end of September.’

The line painting follows lengthy calls for safety measures following two deaths.

A line has already been painted on the edge of the sea wall between Rockstone footbridge and the start of Coastguards footbridge end of the new sea wall.

Network Rail has said the line is to help ‘draw awareness’ to the edge of the wall.

But the rail firm says it is ‘experimental’ to understand the durability of the white line given how exposed this location is to the weather and tide.

New consolidated signage is to be installed along the sea wall, which will replace current signs.

This signage gives safety advice, as well as reminding people dogs should be on leads and no cycling is allowed.

The revised signs will be placed at the entry points to the original sections of walL: Langstone Rock, Rockstone footbridge, Coastguards (at the intersection with the new sea wall), Smugglers Lane and Teignmouth.

However, a previous line painted in the 1990s lasted only two years before it was eroded.

The line painting follows the deaths of 14-year-old Ukrainian Albina Yevko in March 2023 and of a woman who fell while riding a mobility scooter along the wall last year.

The line has appeared a year after a coroner issued a Prevention of Future Deaths report following Albina’s death calling for the rail company to respond ‘urgently’.

Albina was found unconscious on the beach below in March 2023 after slipping from the wall while walking in the dark.

She was airlifted to hospital in Exeter where she died the next morning.

In July last year, a woman fell to her death while riding a mobility scooter along the wall which was first built in the 1840s.

Hundreds of people signed a petition calling for safety measures to be introduced, including a handrail, lighting and better signage.

Last year, Network Rail was said to be drawing up possible solutions following both deaths.

Network Rail has previously said it would be too expensive to install and maintain a safety railing which would be vulnerable to sea damage.

Speaking at the inquest, Andrew Warren, safety boss from Network Rail, said there was a public right of way and access along the wall but that Network Rail didn’t ‘invite’ people onto the sea wall.