Скачать или смотреть Centre Rd Level Crossing, Clayton (Before & After Upgrade)

This is the Centre Rd level crossing in Clayton, on the Dandenong corridor, with footage I took in January 2017 (before) and December 2017 (after). This crossing has since been grade separated, with trains running over the new Centre road bridge on the 16th April 2018.

In the months after I first filmed it in January 2017, this crossing was modified and upgraded to accommodate sky-rail during its construction. The new crossing has:

Two Westinghouse Hybrid bells (which were original). Both bells were programmed to sound continuously until the boom gates rose. The bell on the western side was rotated to face west instead of south. This bell had also become noticeably jumpy since January.

Marked Westinghouse lights (some are new lights, some are original) and Westinghouse cross-arms on all the crossing. The individual signal on the eastern side facing Carinish Rd had a McKenzie & Holland base, while the individual signal on the eastern side facing east had an unmarked base (as it was a traffic light pole). The signals in the median strip had either Western Cullen Hayes bases (according to Google Maps of August 2017) or McKenzie & Holland or Westinghouse bases (in the footage I took, the bases look different to the Google Maps images, but unfortunately I could not get a closer look at them to confirm this). The individual signal on the western side facing Haughton Rd was removed, with lights facing Haughton Rd added to the boom gate mechanism.

Safetran boom gate mechanisms on both sides (which replaced a WRRS boom gate mechanism, with a McKenzie & Holland base, on the western side, and a Westinghouse/McKenzie & Holland boom gate mechanism, with a Westinghouse base, on the eastern side), and an additional Invensys boom gate mechanism in the median strip on the eastern side. All new boom gate mechanisms had unmarked bases. The boom gate arms on both eastern boom gate mechanisms had folding mechanisms at their tips, which extended when the boom gates lowered and retracted when the boom gates rose. This was to prevent the arm from contacting with the overhead sky-rail bridge being constructed.

I have already uploaded a video of this crossing before, with its old infrastructure, so if you want to see more footage of the crossing, see that video:

   • Centre Rd Level Crossing, Clayton, Before ...  

An interesting thing to find is that this crossing had a third track added during the removal works. This was to help realign the original two tracks so that works could be completed on the new sky-rail bridge. '3 tracks' signs were added to the crossing at the time I filmed it. In the new footage, the entire crossing had been shifted to the west of it's original location, with trains running along the new third track, with the original first track removed (although the tracks were still embedded in the road).

This crossing was a bit of a pain to film. The entire eastern side of the crossing was blocked of for construction work, so I couldn't get any good close ups of it, and I could barely film anywhere without a tradie telling me off. I hope you enjoy what I managed to get.