Trackside Fencing in Goods Yard?

[dseagull]

Would there have been (50's/60's), generally, be trackside fencing or some kind of barrier in a yard, specifically on a road leading to a loading bank?

 

That possibly reads as quite vague, so attached is a photo (excuse the badly shopped in sky, but it's more interesting than cardboard/the kitchen wall )

 

 

There is a faint line from approx the level crossing gate post to the fence nearest the camera - on the camera side of this is a road, with a factory on the other side. The rest is the yard (which will eventually gain a gate!), running up to a loading bank. Specifically, would the part of this (yard) road from the level crossing gate post to approx the start of the loading bank (where you can see a feed to track which I haven't hidden yet), have a fence?

 

As you can see from above, I've dropped in a barrow crossing, which I'm thinking should probably be fenced and gated, but I'm not sure if a fence running much further would be 'right'.

 

Cheers in advance.

[Miss Prism]

Specifically, would the part of this (yard) road from the level crossing gate post to approx the start of the loading bank (where you can see a feed to track which I haven't hidden yet), have a fence?

 

That will depend whether it is 'public property' or 'railway property'. There would be fencing/gate at the interface between the two. If the public property extends to the bottom of the loading bank, there would be a fence between that property and the railway.

 

Barrow crossings accessible to non-railway pedestrians would be gated.

[The Stationmaster]

Very odd to have it fenced I would have thought - assuming it is part of the yard.  the only fences I ever came across in yards were at the boundary or around cattle pens.  Once you're inside the boundary that's it and it's all part of the railway.

[dseagull]

Many thanks both - makes sense to me now.