Скачать или смотреть Stokeford Level Crossing, Dorset

Official name: Stoke No.32 Level Crossing

Date filmed: 25/09/2023
Videos filmed at: 14:47 | 15:11 | 15:21

Route: South West Main Line
Wool is the closest station

Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barriers crossing with CCTV (MCB-CCTV)

Location: Church Lane, Stokeford
Trains featured:
Lowering 1 (0:00):
444 025 (South Western Railway) - 1:33
1W26 Weymouth ➡ London Waterloo | 3 minutes late
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Lowering 2 (2:01):
444 009 (South Western Railway) - 3:14
1W25 London Waterloo ➡ Weymouth | 21 minutes late
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Lowering 3 (3:40):
444 041 (South Western Railway) - 4:35
1W24 Weymouth ➡ London Waterloo | On-time

A full-barrier level crossing located on a quiet road in a pleasant spot in the tiny settlement of Stokeford, part of the larger East Stoke area between Wareham and Wool in quite a rural part of Dorset. Until the 2013 Poole to Wool re-signalling, this level crossing had manually-operated gates which were opened by a crossing keeper when a vehicle wished to cross. Since then, there are four full barriers as well as LED road traffic lights and audible alarms, and the level crossing is open for the whole time until a train is due now. This road seems barely busy enough to justify this sort of operation over an 'On-call' set-up where the lights would be extinguished most of the time and the barriers not raised until a user wished to cross with no trains due. None of these level crossings renewed as part of the re-signalling are controlled anywhere near locally, but rather from around 70 miles away in Basingstoke! Long distances between the level crossings and their controlling panels are bound to become the norm in the future, however, as control of lines is gradually moved to larger Railway Operations Centres, though a complete transfer of everything is likely still multiple decades away at least.

A trio of Class 444's can be seen passing this level crossing in this video, one as much as 21 minutes late, all first announced by the rather strange-sounding low-pitched alarms when the barriers were lowered.

Train details sourced from:
Real Time Trains: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sear...
Open Train Times: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Traksy: https://traksy.uk/live

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