Unusual three half-barriers set-up at Harlech Level Crossing, Gwynedd
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- Official name: Harlech Morfa Level Crossing
Date filmed: 27/06/2023
Videos filmed at: 12:24 | 12:27 | 18:21 | 18:29
Route: Cambrian Coast Line
- Harlech is the closest station
Crossing type: Automatic half Barrier Crossing Locally-monitored by traincrew (ABCL)
Location: A496 Fford Morfa, and Hwylfar Nant, Harlech
Intro shots - 0:00
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Lowering 1 (2:20):
158 831 (Transport for Wales) - 3:25
2J07 Machynlleth ➡ Pwllheli
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Lowering 2 (4:03):
158 834 (Transport for Wales) - 5:11
2I20 Pwllheli ➡ Machynlleth
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Lowering 3 (6:04):
158 826 (Transport for Wales) - 6:48
2J19 Birmingham International ➡ Pwllheli
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Lowering 4 (7:36):
158 831 (2) (Transport for Wales) - 8:53
2I75 Pwllheli ➡ Birmingham International
A large level crossing found near Harlech Station, and overshadowed by Harlech Castle, on the Cambrian Coast Line in Harlech, Gwynedd. It's by quite a margin the most interesting and abstract public highway level crossing on the main line in the area. It has a total of three half barriers, making it one of only three crossings in the UK to have this number of barriers, as there is a stand-alone additional pair of warning lights / wigwags and a half barrier provided for a side road which enters the crossing parallel to and almost right next to the running line, which itself crosses the main road at quite a considerable skew angle. Additional road markings have been painted down at the angled 'T' junction in the crossing itself so that drivers that missed the barrier can perfectly legitimately wait there until it's safe to proceed and no trains are due, unless turning left away from the crossing. It would still be ill-advised to weave around or pass that barrier with the crossing active regardless! The positioning of this third barrier at this entrance, and the fact that it has even been provided, is very peculiar, and it's probably (at least in part) due to a lack of anywhere else to put it that it's placed so far forward. I've provided plenty of cut-aways at the start to showcase the layout here.
There is a total of seven sets of LED warning lights / wigwags at this level crossing which are scattered about in quite an odd fashion. There's also a total of three alarms here, each is located closest to each of the three half barriers and is rather loud. Each alarm has the odd brackets that seem to be provided at the overwhelming majority of crossings in the region, and as can be heard one of the alarms skips quite a lot and has a fast tone. The level crossing is also protected by Red/white LED drivers' crossing indicators, with floodlights provided to help visibility after dark. The indicator flashing white as seen in the second video indicates the level crossing is working normally and it's safe for the train to proceed, whereas if it's flashing red, it means that either the level crossing has not activated or failed, telling the driver to stop, and if possible proceed with extreme caution. Due to the location of the station, the level crossing is activated manually by southbound trains heading towards Barmouth, Tywyn etc. Harlech Station is one of the main crossing points on this line with trains timetabled to meet here every two hours.
Two pairs of trains are featured, the first filmed around lunch time and the second filmed around six hours later, and the third train seen in this video was also seen by me just after at Tygwyn and then in Criccieth. Please excuse the wind noise in parts of the video, (no) thanks due to its sort-of coastal location. Up at the castle, the wind is far more intense and relentless!
Train details sourced from:
Real Time Trains: www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sear...
Open Train Times: www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Traksy: traksy.uk/live
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Now that is something unusual but looks quite interesting! Great Crossing, Intro shots and Videos!😁👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Definitely very unusual and quirky. Thank you very much!
Nice!
Thanks!
Excellent video and nice Crossing 👍
Thank you! 👍👍
Great video
Thanks! 👍
Nice, a Nice crossing
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Excellent video! The alarm skipped when the barrier raised!
Thank you! I noticed it did.
Nice one!
Thanks!
Nice one
Thanks!
@SouthEastLevelCrossings also the side you was on at Lowering 2 that alarm had gone very very faulty
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings and now it's been replaced
The strangest crossing I've ever seen is still in Germany where a railway track goes straight through a roundabout and a few junctions close to it.
Now I see (ignoring the barriers) some ways to safely hit the sideway without any danger to be caught by the train, yet I do have the feeling that still locking down the entire junction was the best way to go here.
Indeed. The angle at which the side road meets the main road and the position of the track would confuse drivers and potentially cause trouble if it weren't for that extra barrier, not to mention as sighting for that extra set of lights in the crossing across the track isn't brilliant when emerging. The crossing you mentioned definitely sounds like a very strange and complex set-up!
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings I tried to look that German crossing up, as there was a video of it here on TH-cam, but unfortunately I can't find it anymore.
There are also at least two crossings here in the US that are on roundabouts, one of which is in Florida and also is where two legs of a wye meet.
The other one I've filmed and is on the Sandersville Railroad in Sandersville, GA.
Nice video and crossing
Thank you!
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings np
Great video! Funnily enough, I'd just recently filmed one of the gated three-way crossings in my area myself, lol. There definitely ain't many crossings on intersections in the UK, I've noticed, and probably rightfully so.
Nice to see another video of this one though. Also, looks like the gate mechs there recently got replaced?
Thanks! Definitely doesn't seem too much a bad thing given how a lot of people drive over here lol. I believe one of the three barriers (at least looked to have) been replaced fairly-recently.
We've still got a manned crossing where we live which is surrounded by houses. Pretty sure there are Klaxons on the posts but they don't sound. This would drive me nuts if I lived there. It must surely be the only crossing with open fronted buildings within the barriered off space?
I think that's Strand Road level crossing in the Preston Docks area.
This is weird question to ask and this is not this crossing but when does chapel road lower
Is that Chapel Road LC in Southampton?
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings yes
@@greatbritainlevelcrossings8149 You can see trains heading into the docks from Northam Junction before the crossing activates, but you'll need to keep a close eye on 'Southampton Eastern Docks' on Realtime Trains for trains leaving the docks.
Did you see the nearby foot crossing? Its just hehinfld where you were in Lowering 4
Yes, I did. I think I featured it in one of the starting cut-aways too.
Urm no?
0:57
There's no way the alarms need to be screeching banshees to this extent, even with the wind. Spoils the ambiance of this town. If every lightpost had an alarm (even the one at 6:25 - which I believe you say does NOT have one), then surely they could be a reasonable volume while still ensuring anyone on the tracks gets the hint. Point being, no matter where on the tracks you stand, you could hear an activated alarm.
Another two or three alarms really wouldn't go amiss here. I agree. Then this three you here wouldn't have to be quite as loud at all!
What line is this on?
The Cambrian Coast Line.
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings thank you and where does that go from?
@@LCL2024 Machynlleth to Pwllheli. It branches off of the Cambrian Main Line from Shrewsbury
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings and so sorry but do you know what lines Tygwyn station and Barmouth south are on?
@@LCL2024 Both on the same line as this 👍
Nice work, do u play roblox?
Thanks! Unfortunately I don't.
my god did they ever choose the most annoying alarm ever, the North anerican one seems way better, and less intrusive, One of these crossings get put up in a neighbourhood and i bet housing prices drop the closer your house is to it
It isn’t annoying they are different in most countries, they need a loud and annoying alarm bc it is a public highway