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[email protected] · November 25th 17, 09:17 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
09:47:06 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017, remarked:

with 5 times as many cars, travelling 5 times as many miles, I find
it neither surprising nor wholly reprehensible that people are no
longer content to wait for the signalman to change the signals, then
come down from the box to open the gates. And those figures are
national. In London and the SE the changes have been greater.

That level crossing model, while normal in the 1960s, largely went out
long ago. So signalling is as likely as not automatic or controlled by
route setting. 5 crossings are supervised from Cambridge PSB by CCTV.
Almost no crossing gates require a signalman to come down from his box to
open the gates now.

Littleport station crossing!

With an underpass like at Ely! How much traffic does that crossing get?
Again, the signalling to King's Lynn is long overdue for modernising. It
should have been done with the electrification. Why that crossing missed out
on replacement of gates by lifting barriers GOK. Part of the decades of
under-investment because of cutting taxes on motorists.

OK, I was a bit too strong with "almost no" but I'm not aware of any others
in East Anglia.

And until only a couple of years ago, Shippea Hill station crossing.

Yes, Ely-Norwich signalling was modernised.

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Colin Rosenstiel