The Return of Level Crossing News (a tribute)

[editor]

When I was asked if I would give permission for "UK Level Crossing news" to use one of my photos, how could I refuse?

So, if you want to be kept up to date with "UK Level Crossing news, research and inquiry information ...Major level crossing accidents and incidents covered" be sure to go to: http://levelcrossingnews.blogspot.com/2006/05/misuse-winchelsea-aocl-250506.html

 

[Crispy]

*awards ed a special spod star badge*

 

[siarc]

MISUSE: Shropshire

Figures show that over seventy drivers broke traffic laws at crossings in Shropshire during 2005. Crossings giving particular concern are Wem, Harlescott and Onibury.

 

[editor]

Figures show that over seventy drivers broke traffic laws at crossings in Shropshire during 2005. Crossings giving particular concern are Wem, Harlescott and Onibury.

I've been concerned about Onibury for some time myself, too.

 

[subversplat]

What sort of madman runs a level crossing anyway? I'm not always the most careful of people at the best of times, but driving over a crossing when the barriers are up fills me with dread, let alone attempting to nip across while they're closing

 

[strung out]

I've been concerned about Onibury for some time myself, too.

I've been more concerned with Winchelsea tbh

 

[siarc]

fact of the day; olden times pop combo the levellers formed at the 17th aldermaston level crossing enthusiasts pageant in 1986, where two teenagers were seriously injured by an intercity service interrupting their picnic

that's not true actually

 

[Dhimmi]

This is probably more significant than the mention from Indymedia...

 

[siarc]

http://www.britishtransportfilms.co.uk/productions/films/BT0696/BT696.html

this is where i have to say that i was fascinated by level crossings as a young child

 

[Epico]

<awaits imminent registration of level crossing bods & eventual creation of the u75 level crossing forum>

 

[equationgirl]

We now get informercials, for want of a better word, on tv up here in Scotland telling people that if you try and run the lights at a level crossing you'll get squished flat by the approaching train.

I loved level crossings as a child, watching the trains going past. My dad would make my brothers cry by pretending the engine had failed as we went over one in the car. It used to make me giggle. He still does it now, and it still makes me laugh, even though he's been doing for 25 years and I'm now 33.

 

[editor]

<awaits imminent registration of level crossing bods & eventual creation of the u75 level crossing forum>

Funnily enough, during my travels through the delights of Silvertown and North Woolwich yesterday, I can across an old, overgrown level crossing which still had the big red spot on the gate.

Naturally, as a featured photographer for Level Crossing News, I simply had to grab a picture which I will be delighted to share with you all at my earliest convenience.

I hope you'll be able to cope with the excitement.

 

[laptop]

I can across an old, overgrown level crossing which still had the big red spot on the gate. ...I simply had to grab a picture which I will be delighted to share with you all at my earliest convenience.

I hope you'll be able to cope with the excitement.

* Holds breath *

Was it interlocked?

 

[editor]

* Holds breath *

Was it interlocked?

Hang on. This one's too good to wait any longer.

I'll just fire up Photoshop now and have the pics here in 5 mins.

 

[editor]

Here they come. Two beauties - with the rails still intact!

Looking west. look at the size of that red spot!

Looking east towards Silvertown and North Woolwich

 

[equationgirl]

Cor! That's pretty cool, editor. Nice one

 

[PacificOcean]

We have a very exciting level crossing here next to Enfield Lock station. It's handy when you are walking towards the station as you know to leg it when the barriers start to come down as there is a train comming!

 

[beeboo]

We have a very exciting level crossing here next to Enfield Lock station. It's handy when you are walking towards the station as you know to leg it when the barriers start to come down as there is a train comming!

I thought at first you meant to 'leg it out of the way of the on-coming train' - well, duh!


Actually, one of my most ingrained childhood memories was having to accompany my dad to visit the parents of a girl who worked for him at the office, to offer our condolences after she was killed on a level crossing.

(actually the main reason the memory is ingrained because her parents fed us on delicious goose-egg custard tarts - OK I was only young alright!)

 

[ICB]

Sweet.

Get onto Talkback Productions, HIGNFY guest publication classic.

 

[PacificOcean]

Sweet.

Get onto Talkback Productions, HIGNFY guest publication classic.

Level Crossings are ___________ for Asyulm seekers?

 

[Skim]

Here they come. Two beauties - with the rails still intact!

I feel strangely inspired to find out more about the wonderful world of level crossings

 

[Rollem]

i love the fact that level crossing news, has a link to urban75

 

[Dhimmi]

Hang on. This one's too good to wait any longer.
I'll just fire up Photoshop now and have the pics here in 5 mins.

Don't let this distract from the launch of the rubber highway.

http://www.rubberhighways.com/default.html

 

[laptop]

Don't let this distract from the launch of the rubber highway.

http://www.rubberhighways.com/default.html

That's an awful idea on so many levels.

For starters, the trains would need to be equipped with

and if I were driving one I'd probably want one of

or

too.

 

[Dhimmi]

That's an awful idea on so many levels.

Surely; "An awful idea on so many level-crossings"?
Ever heard the war myth about one of those wermacht train guns having been unaccounted for? It's still locked up in a bunkered tunnel somewhere.

 

[editor]

Oy! What the fuck's happened to my lovely level crossing thread?!!

Grrrrrrr.

 

[laptop]

Sorree. That rubber thing was just scary though.

Here's someone else's not-so-good Silvertown photo...



... with a tale that this was the site of the biggest ever bang in London.

 

[editor]

See big article on Silvertown here: http://www.urban75.org/railway/silvertown.html

 

[Dhimmi]

Met to investigate level crossing thread.

 

[laptop]

Found it!

Aerial view of ed's level crossing.