SpeedbirdA350
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I know network rail prefer to use a bridge instead of a LC, and I am not talking about upgraded crossings but what is the newest crossing on the network and does anyone know when it was installed?
That would have been my guess too. Wow just wow that is recent.Surprisingly late. There I was expecting the latest ones to be 19th century.
A manual level crossing was built in 2001 for the construction of Deganwy Quay on the old docks site in Deganwy. It was removed in 2004 when a manual crossing dating from the 19th century 200 yards away was rebuilt as an automated crossing. The road side barriers of the 2001-04 crossing are still in situ, somewhat bizarrely they weren't removed when it was re-fenced.
Is it possible there are more recent ones on the Welsh Highland Railway?
The aforementioned cross-town link included the major level crossing on Porthmadog's Britannia bridge, and also a set of wig-wags on nearby Snowdon Street. That's all on top of the mixed-gauge rail-on-rail level crossing at Cae Pawb.Is it possible there are more recent ones on the Welsh Highland Railway?
AIUI the Rother Valley Railway will build a level crossing over the Robertsbridge Bypass, for which permission has been given. That will be a new crossing, as the road was built after the original railway closed.Would any new level crossings actually be allowed now?
The ORR is not objecting to it, but that doesn’t mean it has been given approval yet, as, apart from safety, the impact on road traffic is likely to be one of the key points at issue in the forthcoming public enquiry. However, if the ORR has opposed it it would have made overall approval much more of a challenge.AIUI the Rother Valley Railway will build a level crossing over the Robertsbridge Bypass, for which permission has been given. That will be a new crossing, as the road was built after the original railway closed.
Ah, I'd remembered reading that planning permission had been granted, and I'd inferred (evidently wrongly) that that meant the crossing was approved. I see that the public enquiry you mentioned, into the T&WA Order, is due to begin in May, so I'll watch out for the outcome of that.The ORR is not objecting to it, but that doesn’t mean it has been given approval yet, as, apart from safety, the impact on road traffic is likely to be one of the key points at issue in the forthcoming public enquiry. However, if the ORR has opposed it it would have made overall approval much more of a challenge.
Brickyard Lane, Linby Colliery, Linby Town level crossings on the new Robin Hood line between Bulwell and Newstead. Reopened 1993?
Grives Lane between Newstead and Kirkby. Track relaid and opened 1995?
Not a new line though.
Don’t know the answer, but both the Littleport bypass and Downham Market Bypass LCs were opened in the late 80s IIRC.
Cherry Hinton bypass must also be from a similar-ish era too?
There is also an open level crossing at the old Gas Works site between Snowdon Street and Britannia Bridge.The aforementioned cross-town link included the major level crossing on Porthmadog's Britannia bridge, and also a set of wig-wags on nearby Snowdon Street. That's all on top of the mixed-gauge rail-on-rail level crossing at Cae Pawb.
The above all opened for service c.2010. There's no way the Britannia crossing could have been permitted if a road bypass of Porthmadog weren't already on the cards.