Wokingham's bells went a year ago, when the whole crossing was replaced with a new one as part of the Feltham area resignalling. It's now controlled via CCTV from Basingstoke ROC, and the local box is closed, meaning the barriers now get raised much sooner after train has passed.
Lincoln Street is especially interesting as it's interlinked both with the tram system on one side (the barriers don't need to be down for a tram to pass but they won't raise behind a train if there's a tram approaching) and the road traffic signals that control the crossroads on the other side.Ah, the old Lincoln Street LC.
The image is of the Midland Railway signal box and level crossing. The box is long closed and removed. The current Nottingham Tram line operates to the left of the shot, over the level crossing.
Basford Crossing - Lincoln Street Railway Level Crossing - on the Nottingham-Mansfield railway line
The Vernon Bingo Hall Tombola and Social Club (ex-Vernon cinema) can be seen on the right. The picture is taken from the top of the railway footbridge.picturenottingham.co.uk
That’s the “Rural Barrier” type I referred to upthread. Still at least one in Scotland at Hospital Mill in Fife. Anyone know if Bodsbury (near Abington) is still there?
I believe it is Whitehall Crossing between Canterbury West and Chartham
Yes, it is.
When there is no attendant the wicket gates are padlocked shut and the public has no access over the crossing when the barriers are lowered.
Unusual (to me anyhow), to see that on street view that it has two long gates rather than four short ones, and that they have a considerable overlap when the road is open. Never seen gates overlapping like that before.
That was what was at Redcar Central up until relatively recently before being replaced by the “telescoping” type. I believe maintenance and difficulty in obtaining spare parts was the driver.
Not sure. It could be down to the width of the road as well as it does narrow over the crossing.
These 'Boom Gates' were also affected by winds. The Redcar gates, not so far from the coast, were particularly prone to not closing properly and delaying both trains and road traffic as a result. I am told that lifting boom gates would also have been adversely affected, hence the 'telescoping' gates. (Also a lack of room for the lifting boom supports.)
Well I didn’t know there was more than one! I’ll have to go for a look at one of them at some point.
The installation of lights came about following an incident where the crossing keeper on duty was airlifted to hospital, with life changing injuries, after the gates were struck.
It looks like it has sadly been removed completely (at least from what I can see on Google maps) with barely any indication there was ever a crossing
On railways isn’t it standard for km/h to be displayed as white on a black board and mph as black on a white board?
I believe so, yellow on black was previously used on the original design of Advanced Warning Indicators - so-called 'Morpeth Boards'
On G Maps the paved crossing is still in place on the line of the railway, and you can trace the taxiway from that. No sign of a level crossing in full though.
I don't know the A5 / A483 stretch there but a quick look on Google Street View shows single carriageway road crossed by the, as you say, mothballed railway line.
In Northern Ireland, one of the runways at RAF Ballykelly was extended and it and a taxiway crossed the Belfast-Londonderry railway line. Although the RAF station is long closed, the airfield is more or less completely extant and visible on satellite imagery.
