Here we go again and the ways it's going again soon

[johncas]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4079881.stm

Wont say any more as there will proberbly be another one soon

This one in wales.

Like they say you wate ages for one to happern then they all happern at once wonder when the next one will be.

[spartacus]

Sounds like someone doing work on the Welsh Highland as well!

[salopiangrowler]

Poor WHR, i wonder if H&SE will ask them to put in a bridge

[davvydo]

after the welsh highland they might be making the Isle of Man
problem is there are no takers yet to build the steam locos..........................................are there any takers?????

[phat2003uk]

As said before numerous times before, you say you wait for one and they all come at once now, it's always been like this but ever since Ufton Nervett, the media report on all of them.

[salopiangrowler]

it's always the same. i wonder where the worst level crossing is, my reckoning is the one north of peterborough before they modified it. Then again looking at exeter St Davids, you gotta be pretty nippy to cross that one.

[Tomnick]

Depends what you mean by 'worst'. Some of the crossings in the Helpston area certainly take a long time to cross, and you can be waiting there for a long time - but they're not dangerous, since they need to be proved, by observation, to be clear before a train can be signalled over them.

[johncas]

What about Ely crossing it's lot's of tracks and I had to walk accross by foot once and you could get half way accross and the crossing starts then you got to run the rest of the way

And ely corssing they got the Level crossing and a Bridge cars use the bridge to go under the tracks the crossing is for lorrys trucks buses that cant go under the bridge

[chriscooper]

What about Ely crossing it's lot's of tracks and I had to walk accross by foot once and you could get half way accross and the crossing starts then you got to run the rest of the way

And ely corssing they got the Level crossing and a Bridge cars use the bridge to go under the tracks the crossing is for lorrys trucks buses that cant go under the bridge

Ely Level Crossing is manually controlled from Cambridge, and monitored by CCTV. The signaller will not put the exit barriers down until the crossing is clear, and can not clear the signals until the barriers are proved to be down. Not only is the crossing wide, but also vehicles usually cross at low speed, so take a long time to clear, and due to being required to give way to traffic from the underpass not far after the crossing, vehicles often end up blocking it. These crossings are used on busy roads, especially in town centres, or railways with speeds above 100mph (there are loads on the ECML). Naturally this sort of crossing is not very popular with road users, due to the barriers having to be lowered some time before the train arrives, and their are often calls to automate them. A good argument against this though is that if road users can't be trusted to use an automatic crossing safely, they should have to wait for ages at manual ones, and if they want a bridge, they can pay for it, and make sure its construction has no effect on rail traffic.

[Tomnick]

Ely, of course, couldn't be automated because of the number of lines crossing it (only two running lines are allowed, plus two sidings?), and the problem of queuing traffic blocking the crossing. Still don't think it takes as long to cross as Helpston crossing does though .