A gated crossing at Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire (now MCB-OD), that is manually operated by a signalman. These crossings are slowly becoming rarer as they are being replaced by modern automated crossings.
Level crossing warning signs/plates
With barriers or gates
Open crossing
With warning lights (note the post-Hixon amber light)
There are around 6,000 level crossings in the United Kingdom, of which about 1,500 are public highway crossings.[1] This number is gradually being reduced as the risk of accidents at level crossings is considered high. The director of the UK Railway Inspectorate commented in 2004 that "the use of level crossings contributes the greatest potential for catastrophic risk on the railways."[2] The creation of new level crossings on the national network is banned (the exception being reopening unavoidable crossings on new/reopening railway lines, and on heritage railways), with bridges and tunnels being the more favoured options. The cost of making significant reductions, other than by simply closing the crossings, is substantial; some commentators argue that the money could be better spent. Some 5,000 crossings are user-worked crossings or footpaths with very low usage. The removal of crossings can improve train performance and lower accident rates, as some crossings have low rail speed limits enforced on them to protect road users (e.g. AOCLs). In fact, between 1845 and 1933,[3] there was a 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h) speed limit on level crossings of turnpike roads adjacent to stations for lines whose authorising act of Parliament had been consolidated in the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 although this limit was at least sometimes (and possibly often) disregarded.[4][a][5]
^"Level crossing safety". Network Rail. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
^"Rail level crossings discouraged". BBC. 7 November 2004.
^Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845, s. 48
^"Attorney General v London and North Western Railway [1900] 1 QB 78". The Law Reports (Queen's Bench Division). 13 November 1899.
^Goodman, Michael (1977). "Railways in the Law Reports" (PDF). Trent Law Journal. 1 (1): 47. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
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