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All Scottish level crossing to be barriered

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Yet another decision from the late 1980s / early 1990s reversed and previous arrangements reinstated
 

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Are they going to upgrade private farm crossings as well, or just the public highway ones. There are quite a few of the former between Ayr and Stranraer. I know they already have user worked gates, but it would be nice to have extra protection.
 
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What are these new mini ones like? Anyone have a picture or something?
 

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No idea, in my mind im picturing those horse/motorbike gate's that are low and you can just step across.
 

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Shame they cant go back to a person operating the gates,that is the most safe way of doing things.But good news for the drivers ,no more idiots crossing in front of them .
 

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Yet another decision from the late 1980s / early 1990s reversed and previous arrangements reinstated
Presumably the previous arrangements involved the crossings being individually manned - if so, no, it's not a case of reinstating the previous arrangements!

The AOCL+B designation mentioned in the article suggests that it's not very much different to an ABCL (which is similar in appearance, to road users, to an AHB) - possibly with simplified controls omitting full proving on the barriers or similar? Not sure, but there's obviously something to make it different to an ABCL.
 

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AFAIK an ABCL is just an AOCL+B, but built as such
 

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Good news but I give it up to a week before the first barrier is ripped off when someone jumps their usual crossing and doesnt expect the barrier to be in their way.
 
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