Long Pockitt Lane Level Crossing, Selby

This is the Long Pockitt Lane level crossing in Selby, on the Puffing Billy railway, with footage I took in June 2017, May and July 2018, November 2019, September and October 2022, and January, February, March, August and September 2023
This crossing has:
- Two Westinghouse Hybrid bells. The bell on the northern side is programmed to sound out after the boom gates have lowered. The bell on the southern side is programmed to sound continuously until the boom gates rise. This bell also sounds rather flat
- Westinghouse cross-arms
- Marked Westinghouse lights
- Safetran boom gate mechanisms, with unmarked bases
This crossing used to have a simple gate-less setup, which included incandescent Westinghouse lights and a McKenzie & Holland teardrop bell. However, due to a spate of near misses between cars and trains, boom gates were installed here in June 2013, alongside two other crossings at Belgrave-Gembrook Rd in Menzies Creek and Belgrave-Gembrook Rd in Emerald
I filmed both before, during, and after the ban on legs dangling out the sides of Puffing Billy was implemented in 2018 following a collision at one of the crossings, and then subsequently removed in 2021, so you'll see some occasions where passengers have their legs out, and other occasions where they don't. One bit of consistency you WILL see, however, is the waving passengers. It is customary at Puffing Billy that you wave to the passengers on the train as it travels past. It's a good little bit of fun and brightens up everyone's day!
And apologies if some of the footage seems to be of less quality and of a lower frame rate. My camera produces two types of videos files, the lower quality MP4 and the higher quality MTS. I used to always use the MP4 files for my videos, because the file size was heaps smaller, and if I made videos using the MTS files the high quality was lost when I rendered them for uploading. I've only recently figured out a way to render videos with MTS files that KEEPS the quality, which is why my most recent videos are of better quality. I didn't know this years ago though, so I unfortunately deleted a lot of the higher quality MTS video files because they took up so much room, not thinking that I'd need them. I have since adopted the practice of using the MTS files from now on for my videos, though there are some old bits of footage where I can only use lower quality MP4 files, as the MTS files have been deleted. Better than nothing I guess?

[@user-tt8fo9wn8z]

Nice Stu looks grate.

[@stuarthunt101]

Haha thanks Cam

[@MissStabby]

I have been watching your videos since 2016

[@stuarthunt101]

Thanks :)

[@sp00tnik26]

This is s pretty interesting crossing, the fact that one side of the bells are purposefully flat!

[@stuarthunt101]

Heh, it's a bit weird

[@jacktherailwayenthusiast3343]

Great video Stuart, it sucks that Puffing Billy deliberately modified the south western Westinghouse hybrid bell to sound flat for consideration of residents. It makes no difference still especially as they didn’t deliberately modify the north eastern Westinghouse hybrid bell to sound flat.

[@stuarthunt101]

Thanks Jack :) I didn't know it was deliberately muffled, a bit of an interesting decision. At least it appeased the residents

[@jacktherailwayenthusiast3343]

⁠The teardrop bells at Selby-Aura Road and Main Street, Gembrook have a piece of foam in them to muffle them for consideration of residents.

[@jezman8652]

Great video, out of curiosity which of their diesel locomotives was pulling the train at the end of the video?

[@stuarthunt101]

Thanks man :) That would've been loco DH5

[@tomhenry6440]

The hybrids are flat wth

[@stuarthunt101]

Lol