In message , Roland Perry
wrote:
The newspaper story says:

"The crossing controller who manually operates the barriers
witnessed the incident as well as it being caught on CCTV."

So unless he has binoculars and very long arms, he's going to have to be
on site.

"Manually" is a slight distraction; he presses buttons in the gate box
to lower the barriers, then turns rotary switches to release the slots
(technical term) on the protecting signals CA113, CA114, CA551, and
CA556.

He also has separate controls to lock the wicket gates for pedestrians;
I've been let across right in front of a (stationary) up train in order
to catch it.

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