Because I'm that sort of person, this question has
been bugging me for a while.

Where is London's busiest level crossing in terms
of off-peak weekday trains per hour? Where ever
in London it is, is it the busiest level crossing in
the UK? In Europe? Anywhere?

By level crossing, I mean where a railway line
crosses a public road on the level -- depots, tracks
between fields, pedestrian crossings and such
don't count.
Your suggestions greatly appreciated,


Matt Ashby
www.mattashby.com

wrote:

Where is London's busiest level crossing in terms
of off-peak weekday trains per hour? Where ever
in London it is, is it the busiest level crossing in
the UK? In Europe? Anywhere?

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.

Colin McKenzie

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?

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

"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.

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

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

In article ,
Martin Underwood writes
Surely an underbirdge would be more efficient?

under what?

Presumably road under railway.

I was really wondering what a birdge is!
--
Thoss

"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

Hi Guys,

My old stomping ground, London Bridge Signalling Area has a manned
level crossing at Charlton Lane near Charlton. This surely is the
busiest Crossing Keeper job. There are a total of 12 trains per hour
or more if the extra freight and loco movements are included, during
off peak weekdays and saturdays, this can increase to 24 during the
peak periods due to extra services and empty stock going to or coming
from Slade Green Depot and if memory serves me well it does exceed
this at one point in the morning peak, if all services run.

Christine


On 13 Dec 2004 14:13:54 -0800, wrote:

Because I'm that sort of person, this question has
been bugging me for a while.

Where is London's busiest level crossing in terms
of off-peak weekday trains per hour? Where ever
in London it is, is it the busiest level crossing in
the UK? In Europe? Anywhere?

By level crossing, I mean where a railway line
crosses a public road on the level -- depots, tracks
between fields, pedestrian crossings and such
don't count.
Your suggestions greatly appreciated,


Matt Ashby
www.mattashby.com


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