"thoss" wrote in message
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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!
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The mind boggles!
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Clive Coleman wrote to uk.transport.london on Thu, 16 Dec 2004:

In message , Mrs
Redboots writes
The mind boggles!
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"Mrs Redboots"
Would you be a fan of the "Perishers" ?

Not especially.
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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!
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Thoss

In ,
thoss typed:

I was really wondering what a birdge is!

What? For 11 whole minutes??




Bob

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!
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Thoss