Level crossing at/near tunnel mouth

[Bucoops]

4 hours ago, TheQ said:

How about a level crossing under a tunnel wide bridge.

 

Mid Norfolk?

[Southernman46]

ISTR New Hythe in Kent ended up under a wide bridge and that included the semaphores & signal box too.

[Forward!]

22 hours ago, TheQ said:

How about a level crossing under a tunnel wide bridge.

 

Well, if we're talking about implausible bridge/crossing combinations, there's always this...

 

 

[Fat Controller]

In the Jura region of S E France, I encountered a line leaving a tunnel, crossing a road, then going across a valley on a viaduct. Sadly, I can' remember the name of the nearest settlement.

[Siberian Snooper]

The Brentford branch had a similar arrangement, road bridge over the  Brentford branch of the Grand Union Canal, which in turn crossed the railway.

Of which that may be a sketch of!

 

 

Edited December 21, 2023 by Siberian Snooper

[62613]

On 19/12/2023 at 15:47, Dunalastair said:

https://charltonchampion.co.uk/2017/11/28/charlton-lane-level-crossing-whats-happened-to-the-footbridge/

 

Was going to say!

[Dunalastair]

3 hours ago, Forward! said:

 

Well, if we're talking about implausible bridge/crossing combinations, there's always this...

 

 

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/flash_homer/8619468329

 

River Garry near Struan

[SteveM666]

Not UK but this is in Ripol, Spain.

[Michael Hodgson]

On 20/12/2023 at 21:34, Bucoops said:

 

Mid Norfolk?

Yes.  It's one of a pair of Automated Open (ie ungated) Crossings very close together, this one over Yaxham Road, the other about 100 yards away over Greens Road in Dereham.  Because they've so close together the crossing controls overlap.  I believe the building between the two was once a crossing keeper's cottage as historically the crossings would have had wooden gates.  The one shown is on quite a sharp skew to the railway, note the length of the yellow box markings in the road.   Preserved railways can use heritage equipment, but level crossings still have to comply with current highways regulations, and the line speed restriction there is extremely low.

 

It's not really a tunnel of course, the flyover is the dual carriageway A47.

[pH]

10 hours ago, Forward! said:

 

Well, if we're talking about implausible bridge/crossing combinations, there's always this...

 

 

Staged, but still:

 

https://www.railpictures.net/photo/734478/#remarks

 

(with a road over the top.)

Edited December 22, 2023 by pH

[The Stationmaster]

19 hours ago, Siberian Snooper said:

The Brentford branch HAS a similar arrangement, road bridge over the  Brentford branch of the Grand Union Canal, which in turn crossed the railway.

Of which that may be a sketch of!

 

 

I've corrected the tense for you

[Siberian Snooper]

I didn't know that the Brentford branch was still extant. Freight only?

 

[Wickham Green too]

Closed to passengers in 1942 - though a few railtours have visited including, I think, a shuttle when Southall had an open day.

[Edwin_m]

On 19/12/2023 at 17:48, Limpley Stoker said:

Bradford on Avon crossing is ungated but as it is close to the station the train movements are slow !

I think all scheduled passenger trains now stop (they didn't a few years back) but there are some freight and it is often used for diversions of GWR London-Bristol trains.  

[Grovenor]

5 hours ago, Edwin_m said:

I think all scheduled passenger trains now stop (they didn't a few years back) but there are some freight and it is often used for diversions of GWR London-Bristol trains.  

But see

and several other posts, the post from Limpley Stoker that you quoted is far from correct.

[Hal Nail]

On 21/12/2023 at 15:42, Forward! said:

 

Well, if we're talking about implausible bridge/crossing combinations, there's always this...

 

 

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/features/windmill_lane_bridge/

 

Several more photos here. I'm not sure what the arches did but I think are just buttresses?

Edited December 23, 2023 by Hal Nail

[Edwin_m]

11 hours ago, Grovenor said:

But see

and several other posts, the post from Limpley Stoker that you quoted is far from correct.

I agree it is a barriered crossing, as others have already pointed out. I was querying the part about train speed.  

[Wickham Green too]

3 hours ago, Hal Nail said:

... I'm not sure what the arches did but I think are just buttresses?

They're not shown on that early drawing so might have been added to counteract movement of the side walls ??!?

[Hal Nail]

2 hours ago, Wickham Green too said:

They're not shown on that early drawing so might have been added to counteract movement of the side walls ??!?

I think they are on the more northerly side and the drawing is from the south. Some photos show them, some don't - took me a while to twig!

 

But yes I think that's all they are for.

 

edit. actually you'd still see them in the drawing so probably were added later. The whole thing is functional rather than pleasing!

Edited December 23, 2023 by Hal Nail

[Mike_Walker]

No, they are on the southern side as shown here looking from the cab of the Railmotor when it was operating on the branch.  It is looking towards Brentford.

 

[The Stationmaster]

On 22/12/2023 at 14:25, Wickham Green too said:

Closed to passengers in 1942 - though a few railtours have visited including, I think, a shuttle when Southall had an open day.

Regular freight use with a bin liner although I don;t know if there is still a regular stone trains to Days,   And of course it had a special steam railmotor shuttle one weekend not too many years back.