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London's closest pair of level crossings?
"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message ... There's a level crossing (Helpston) right where the Peterborough-Leicester line diverges from the ECML. I can't recall whether it has one set of barriers or two, though. That's Maxey Road, Helpston. Most of the crossings between Peterborough and Helpston used to have a set of GN gates and a set of MR gates (I don't recall there being two sets at Woodcroft BICBW). I remember when I was a kid and my father used to take me up to (what was then) Walton crossing, where the large concrete footbridge now crosses the tracks, to watch A4s and Deltics in full flight. At that location there was a GN signalbox to the north-east of the GN crossing and a smaller MR box between the ECML and the Midland lines, both controlling gated crossings. The space between the two crossings would accommodate, at most, two or three cars and it was not uncommon to get trapped in the middle with it being such a busy crossing (prior to the construction of Soke Parkway in 1971 it was the main route across the ECML between Westwood Bridge and Helpston. The crossing was one of the first in the Peterborough area to be barriered, in about 1967 IIRC, controlled from the GN box initially and then latterly from the new monitor box that was built on the south side of the crossing between the former GN and MR lines, when the 1972 remodelling and resignalling of the Peterborough area took place. |
London's closest pair of level crossings?
"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
... Vine Road, Barnes - there's room for only about 6 cars between the level crossing on the Hounslow loop line and the level crossing on the Windsor line: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c...le=5000&icon=x That's the one I was thinking of - unless anyone can think of a pair of crossings that are even closer than that. In Nottingham a road crosses an adjacent railway and tramline. I think that both lines are single track, being a former double track railway, but I might be wrong there. There are barriers around the railway but the tramway is ungated - this is because the tramline is too frequent to have a gated crossing. I don't think there is room for even one car between the tramline and the railway. (This is all hearsay, I have neve been there or seen written confirmation). -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
London's busiest level crossing?
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London's busiest level crossing?
Colin McKenzie wrote:
There was a crossing in Japan, though I can't recall where, on about an 8-track railway, with frequent services on all lines. The gate spent most of the time down, and if you tried to walk across you didn't usually get to the other side before the start of the next closure warning. I would guess something like 60 tph overall. "Wheeee! Let's play chicken with the trains!" Not. Surely an underbirdge would be more efficient? |
London's busiest level crossing?
"Colin McKenzie" wrote in message
... There was a crossing in Japan, though I can't recall where, on about an 8-track railway, with frequent services on all lines. The gate spent most of the time down, That sounds like a lot, until you remember that most traffic lights are red most of the time. -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
London's busiest level crossing?
In article . com,
TheOneKEA writes Colin McKenzie wrote: There was a crossing in Japan, though I can't recall where, on about an 8-track railway, with frequent services on all lines. The gate spent most of the time down, and if you tried to walk across you didn't usually get to the other side before the start of the next closure warning. I would guess something like 60 tph overall. "Wheeee! Let's play chicken with the trains!" Not. Surely an underbirdge would be more efficient? under what? -- Thoss |
London's busiest level crossing?
"thoss" wrote in message
... In article . com, TheOneKEA writes Colin McKenzie wrote: There was a crossing in Japan, though I can't recall where, on about an 8-track railway, with frequent services on all lines. The gate spent most of the time down, and if you tried to walk across you didn't usually get to the other side before the start of the next closure warning. I would guess something like 60 tph overall. "Wheeee! Let's play chicken with the trains!" Not. Surely an underbirdge would be more efficient? under what? Presumably road under railway. If the crossing is handling 60 tph, I wonder how many cars per hour it can allow across the crossing - I'd have thought the barriers would be down almost 100% of each hour. |
London's busiest level crossing?
Martin Underwood wrote to uk.transport.london on Wed, 15 Dec 2004:
Presumably road under railway. More likely to build road-bridge over railway; it can happen - back in the 1940s they had started to build a bridge over the then Southern railway line at Goring-by-sea and then for some reason (war? Economy? Planning consent) it was never finished. Traffic had to use the level-crossing, as before. You could always see where it would have been, as they had made a roundabout at its foot, leading nowhere! Then quite suddenly, I suppose about 15-20 years ago now, they built the bridge and the level-crossing, although still there, is only really used by cars going to the station car-park from south of the line. If the crossing is handling 60 tph, I wonder how many cars per hour it can allow across the crossing - I'd have thought the barriers would be down almost 100% of each hour. The mind boggles! -- "Mrs Redboots" http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/ Website updated 12 December 2004 |
London's busiest level crossing?
In article ,
Martin Underwood writes Surely an underbirdge would be more efficient? under what? Presumably road under railway. If the crossing is handling 60 tph, I wonder how many cars per hour it can allow across the crossing - I'd have thought the barriers would be down almost 100% of each hour. I was really wondering what a birdge is! -- Thoss |
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