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Stations Where Passengers Have to Cross the Track

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Thurston (site of the infamous trainspotter 'near miss' on You Tube) is a location where passengers using Westbound services have to cross the track to reach the platform. How many locations are there on the national network where it is necessary for all intending passengers to cross 'live' metals in such a way ?
Thurston appears to be a particularly dangerous example as many fast running services do not call there.
 
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The Nottingham-Skegness line has a some:-
Heckington, where access to/from the eastbound platform is across the track [in front of the arriving train from Boston]. Also Rauceby, Hubberts Bridge, Swineshead, & Bottesford.

Bottesford is especially hazardous as the platforms are staggered - alighting from a train from Nottingham means crossing the tracks behind the train, and there are Grantham to Nottingham non-stop services on the westbound line.
 
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Wrabness and Mistley on the Harwich branch, red/green lights indicate when it is safe to cross.
 
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Welshman said:
The Nottingham-Skegness line has a some:-
Heckington, where access to/from the eastbound platform is across the track [in front of the arriving train from Boston]. Also Rauceby, Hubberts Bridge, Swineshead, & Bottesford.

Bottesford is especially hazardous as the platforms are staggered - alighting from a train from Nottingham means crossing the tracks behind the train, and there are Grantham to Nottingham non-stop services on the westbound line.
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Bottesford is having a new access built from the Up platform alongside the track to the UWC just after the end of the Down platform... still waiting for it to open though, and it seems to have been built ages. :|

Ancaster also has a foot crossing between platforms.
 
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Everyone seems to use the barrow crossing when using the northbound platform.
 
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Kennett, between Newmarket and Bury St Edmunds was a particularly bad example in that any one using the Newmarket bound platform - either catching a train or alighting from one - had no choice other than to use the foot crossing. However, I believe that with the closure of the signal box a footbridge has been provided.

I've not travelled that way for some time but a number of stations between Ely and Norwich - Shippea Hill, Lakenheath, Harling Road, Eccles Road, Spooner Row, Attleborough - didn't have footbridges but were level crossings - like Thurston, so people crossed the track via the level crossing.
 
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A few on the North Downs like, particularly Ash where the Redhill train leaves as the Alton train arrive simultaneously and you have to run around if you don't fancy the half hour connection!
 
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Carmarthen (admittedly the non-running end of the line!)
 
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Dovey Junction - If you want to access or leave the station you have to walk over the Aberystwyth line.

Then you have stations like Wem and others on the Shrewsbury - Crewe run which the only access to a different platform is via a level crossing... (which descends up to 10 minutes before a train arrives) - Arrive too late and you can't get to your platform and have missed your train (especially if it's one of the request stops!)
 
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Mutant Lemming said:
Thurston (site of the infamous trainspotter 'near miss' on You Tube) is a location where passengers using Westbound services have to cross the track to reach the platform. How many locations are there on the national network where it is necessary for all intending passengers to cross 'live' metals in such a way ?
Thurston appears to be a particularly dangerous example as many fast running services do not call there.
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Kents Bank.
As do cross bay walkers. Saw such a middle aged man take a couple of little girls across the line in front of a train making a station stop. The driver went berserk and other folk expressed their dismay at his stupidity.
 
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Access between the two platforms at [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsknowe_railway_station]Kingsknowe[/url] is via the level crossing at the western end of the station.
 
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