Farewell to Brock Foot Crossing (West Coast Main Line), Near Preston, Lancashire
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2014
- A more personal look at my (and my brother's) favourite childhood gricing spot, as it underwent significant changes earlier this year. Our parents were often asked on Saturdays, "can we go to Brock this afternoon please"?
Perhaps not the most interesting of uploads for people who don't know the place, but I invite you to share memories of your own favourite places.
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A very imaginative record of this location which obviously meat a great deal to your family David...well done...Bob
Thanks very much Bob. It's a shame when old haunts change, and it's funny how you can become attached to a place. At least most of the places on the S&C are largely as they were, for now!
One thing I noticed is that the siren sounds differently everyday when a train is coming
It appears in this vid that the crossing has two different but equally loud yodalarms. Though in that last scene where the lights are covered the alarms sound as though they're in ATC mode.
To be precise at the 5:48 point of vid the alarms definitely sound as though they're in the Another Train Coming mode, just to clarify.
Used to sit on the concrete box as a child here for hours on end, not a worry in the world.
A few years ago I came across this video
And more recently when I tried to find it again, nothing
I gave up hope... And then I found a link to it in the comments section of a video on another channel
same lol
That’s goodbye to brock crossing after a long time in operation
5:47 I can see the level crossing lights been covered in tape
5:43 that’s where brock station once was
3:45 there goes les ross in his train flying pass
It was good to see an 86 there, like days of old!
@@Linesider1 yeah David
Am I seeing things or did the crossing switch itself off at 5:07?
It did
@@WelshTrainspottingYT thought as much
What about Norton crossing in Daresbury by preston brook?
Conor Evans Yes I’m aware of it, what do you mean?
7:00 you say it’s the last place you can legally cross 125mph tracks, is norton slower than that?
Conor Evans Ahh right got you, thanks. That caption talks about a sense of loss - that a 125mph crossing local to me has closed. I’m not saying that there are no other such crossings, just that this one has gone and it’s a loss to me.
@@Linesider1 ohhh ok i get you, have you been to Norton before, if so is it worth taking a 50 min drive to?
Conor Evans 👍🏻 I’ve only been through on the train I’m afraid. Think it’s on a curve, not sure what the views are like either side. Maybe worth a look at photos on Flickr?
0:22 sliping
in sicily,
there was this old,old crossing that had a bell and one light. That's it.
when I was little I used to watch freight trains zoom past.
until they closed it, it was very emotional for me.
I absolutely LOVE how Britain keeps using steam locomotives. I really wish our railway system here, in Argentina, was like yours. Greetings from down south!
considering I am the worst person for crossing railway lines,i found this a very touching and interesting video and the final shot with the lamp sums up that sometimes the old way is better than the modern
Thanks for shearing this sad time in your area.
Many thanks - nothing much stays the same, and with HD video, at least something remains of it.
I went back recently to my old vantage point of the 50's and early 60's on the Midland near Harpenden at the East Hyde viaduct and it is still the same barring the overhead telephone wires which we used to shy at with ballast stones to hear the "twang". Happy days.
This crossing sounds the same as wadbrough north crossoing
This crossing ended the career of a friend of mine, a long standing driver who started on steam. As a driver myself I'm glad to see it go!
Which is precisely why I make the point in the video that the reasons for the footbridge are sound. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did.
At least you dont have sirens in your videos anymore :)
brackers5 Haha - quite :) The new bridge has created a new angle as well.
Yeah, I remember that when I was a child, I was driving to my aunt and we was driving near PKP train line Warsaw-Żyrardów, and on this way there was a lot of railroad crossing, but we was driving parallel to this line, so we wasn't driving trough any of them. But now I'm old enough and I decided to drive all the way to my aunt near PKP line to see these all railroad crossings. And then I got suprised, because they removed ALL railroad crossing and replaced them with viaducts and underground tunnels
Rest In Peace Brock Level Crossing & Station
6:40 u could get some awesome night shots of the trains with their window light glow zooming past!
An interesting and thoughtful video with a well balanced commentary. Thanks.
Noel
Many thanks Noel - I became rather preoccupied with recording the crossing's dying days, so it was almost a relief when it finally closed! David.
I remember seeing when I was driving past that the lamp and swan neck of the last surviving lamp post has been removed
Close to where I visited a couple of times in the 40’s and 50’s in order to see trains on the water troughs.
Lovely footage. I would welcome the footbridge as affording several more viewing points, from the steps particularly and, of course, much safer.
the parapets are in excess of 6 foot high, which means no-one would be able to see the trains.
4:42 Brock's final train.
I don't know how many there are, but what about people in wheelchairs? And the elderly who have great difficulty using stairs? What alternatives are there for them?
70humdinger Pretty surprising new non-handicapped public access construction would be permitted in *very* recent years.
My favorite haunt was Bent Bridge south of Leyland station. You an see it from the M6 where it crosses the railway. My friend and I would cycle there from Blackburn, nearly everyday during the holidays. Happy days indeed.
Many thanks for sharing that Steven. Is it still a good spot or has it changed much? David.
Linesider1
I live in Bristol now so I don't know what it is like any more. Not too good I should think now that the double semaphores are long gone. I used to love to watch them going up all the way back to Leyland station. There was also a very unusual semaphore heading south. It was for the Euxton juntion but had an arm with a home and distant and another shorter arm with a distant only for the diverging line.
+steven dawson A splitting distant, probably for going on to the up central (Chorley) line.
I seem to remember that the Signal Boxes going out of Preston southwards were.....
Ribble Sidings, Skew Bridge, Farrington Curve Jct, Farrington Junction, Bashalls Sidings, Leyland Station, Euxton Coal Sidings, Euxton Junction, Euxton Balshaw Lane Station, Darlingtons Sidings, Blainscough Sidings, Coppull Hall Sidings, Standish Jct, Victoria Colliery Sidings, Boars Head Junction, Rylands Sidings, Wigan North Western No2, Wigan North Western No1 Springs Branch No2, Springs Branch No1, Bamfurlong, Crosstetley Sidings, Long Lane, Golborne Stn No2, Golborne Stn No1, Golborne Jct, Winwick Jct, Winwick Quay, Dallam Branch Sidings, & Warrington Nos 5-4-3-2-1 boxes.
At one point back in the 50s-60s all the regular signalmen who staffed Euxton Junction box were all from the same family (I think it was a father & two of his sons) who were all named Pincock & for a while the box was nicknamed Pincocks Junction.
I had a model of the semaphore made for me a few years back. It takes pride of place on a shelf in my railway room( or the loft as it is known).
BECAUSE I'M A LEVEL CROSSING AND TRAIN FAN, i would hate it if that happened. This video kinda made me sad. I mean, It could of operated as well as the bridge
And some people would struggle to climb all those stairs
I think I know why they took it out because it is on the WCML and when you cross it you wood knot know if there is a train comeing when the sirent goes out
Would not
Coming
Those LEDs level crossing Red and Green Lights with white boards are Doorman Signals
This crossing sounds the same as wadbrough north crossoing
Thanks Adam - probably the same type of siren.
+Linesider Video I think it's called a Yodelalarm, if that helps
I know they’re Clifford and Snell yodalarms
What happened to the lights.
Did they scrap them, They were LED, and scrapping LEDS are a waste of money.
Also, What Jaguar Land Rover plant is that?
shit man the first one the waiting time was like 5 seconds! imaging Being disabled...
**Red lights show**
5 sec later
Smash
dead old grandma splitted in 10000 pieces
Ummm...
Video cuts: Exist
i feel sorry for you.
Y' know what? #bringbackbrocklevelcrossing
That would be stupid unless the warning gave you more time the pendolinos are just too quick
Sorry u had to lose ur favourite place
Why not just do what the US does and stick some pedestrian signals there. Cross illegally, well you know what happens.
They've put a bridge in instead.