In message , at 18:31:50 on Mon, 8
Aug 2011, Clive D. W. Feather remarked:
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.

What I was contrasting wasn't whether he was in the box at the crossing
pressing button with his hands (manually) or his nose (nasally), but
whether he was doing it *at* the crossing, rather than from perhaps a
mile away and observing the crossing with binoculars (having already
established it wasn't done via CCTV).
--
Roland Perry