JRS: In article , dated
Sun, 3 Apr 2005 00:12:31, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Richard J.
posted :

The Elm Road crossings at New Malden look from the aerial photograph to
be about one car length apart. Are you saying that there are separate
sets of gates for each track? If not, it's just one crossing with the
tracks a bit further apart than usual.

Only for very short cars. Only one set of gates, of the usual lifting
sort; four of them, one per carriageway per track.

I think a reasonably small car - a Morris Minor, for example, *might* be
able to park between (parallel to) the tracks at the Kingston side.

Substantially, approaching the west it is an ordinary double track which
starts diverging about 40m before the crossing in order that trains may
climb to join the north side of the main line, whereas eastbound trains
have just come under the main line from the south side.

It's dangerous, because a couple of car-lengths to the South there's a
one-lane road bridge under the railway, followed by a length of narrow
road - and the road to the north is also narrow. But as it looks
dangerous, and few strangers will find it, it's probably safe enough.

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