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Thanks for sharing these! The Hastings one has all sorts of interesting features - it's a railway line that just pushes through a town centre and everything about it looks a bit strange. But clearly it works, presumably because it's not a very busy line.
Indeed - the line is the Palmerston North-Gisborne Line, which has been freight only with just two trains per day since 2001 when passenger services ceased. Incidentally, this line is also the same one that crosses a runway at Gisborne's airport - another NZ (and world) railway oddity! (https://unusualplaces.org/gisborne-airp ... -crossing/)
Here's some videos of the line through the fountain in action if you are interested:
I understand it was actually brand new track put down as part of the A228 improvement works around 2003. At the time there were plans by Lafarge Cement to reopen the quarry. https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/Data/Plan ... nd.doc.pdf
This is correct. The roundabout was designed for the cement works and to support housing in the area. The railway was also designed for the cement works. I've kept up with many of the projects I've worked on, but hadn't realised until now that this roundabout had been built. I moved on from that role nearly 20 years ago and had heard that the cement works had been shelved and I'd assumed that the scheme had come to nothing.
Simon
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Place Meiser is roundabout-esque, has a tram line running through the middle of the circle, and in my recollection of living nearby in the mid-1990s, is a disconcerting maelstrom of traffic : https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.85493 ... a=!3m1!1e3
e17simon wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 17:14
not in the UK, but here goes.
In Alicante, the tram Line that goes upto Sant Vicent del Raspeig via the University, it cuts through at least 2 Roundabouts.
Oh go on then, if we can include foreign trams Vítězné náměstí in Prague has to be my favourite, with a triangular junction in the middle (although the W-N chord is only used for depot workings). The crossing of the roundabout at the S end normally carries somewhere over 50 trams per hour without so much as a warning sign or "Give Way" line to the road traffic!
FleetlinePhil wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 13:59
....The crossing of the roundabout at the S end normally carries somewhere over 50 trams per hour without so much as a warning sign or "Give Way" line to the road traffic!
Dont need to; the rule in Prague is "trams have priority" and every driver needs to know it.
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FleetlinePhil wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 13:59
....The crossing of the roundabout at the S end normally carries somewhere over 50 trams per hour without so much as a warning sign or "Give Way" line to the road traffic!
Dont need to; the rule in Prague is "trams have priority" and every driver needs to know it.
Oh yes, I'm well aware: I've been on enough trams in Prague making emergency stops to avoid those who aren't aware - mostly (foreign and/or drunk?) pedestrians .
To be confronted with a crossing at 90 degrees without warning still seems odd to British eyes. Approaching by three of the four roads, you would be aware there are tramlines alongside you, so are pre-warned. Driving in from the E side and approaching the N crossing, this does not apply - the first a stranger would know is when they see the tracks crossing the road in front of them. Presumably the sightlines are judged open enough to see a tram approaching from either direction?
Funnily enough, I'd passed over it by tram numerous times over the years and never really thought about it not being signal controlled. It was only on my last visit when I stayed in a hotel only a block away that I really took notice of how the traffic was behaving.