ryan125hst
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Does anyone know anything about the history of Torworth Level Crossing? Ranskill controls level crossings at Grove Road, Botany Bay, Sutton, Torworth and Ranskill. The signal boxes at Grove Road, Sutton and Ranskill still exist (and Ranskill is still used of course), and signalboxes.com has pages showing the signal box at Botany Bay before it was demolished. However, there is no page for a signal box at Torworth and the area layout page makes no mention of such a box either.
When did Torworth Level Crossing come into existence? Was there a user worked crossing there in the manual signalling days and a barriered level crossing installed during the signalling upgrade in the 1970's, which would have also made the crossing safer for the HST's that entered service around that time? Or did it not exist at all until after then?
When did Torworth Level Crossing come into existence? Was there a user worked crossing there in the manual signalling days and a barriered level crossing installed during the signalling upgrade in the 1970's, which would have also made the crossing safer for the HST's that entered service around that time? Or did it not exist at all until after then?
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