Level Crossings for things other than trains

[Skipsy]

I only know of 3 locations where there is a level crossing for airport runways:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@59.87954 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.33640 ... 312!8i6656 (although it seems to have been removed now)
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@36.14984 ... 912!8i3456
(Although Gibraltar is technically not considered part of the UK in some ways blah blah blah)

I was wondering basically of any interesting/odd uses of wig wags that guard something. There is also the odd case of the only level crossing for the London Underground which is located in Neasden Depot. I also find it funny when there is a level crossing for a narrow guage railway and when the train comes past it looks like a toy train.

[WHBM]

There is also the odd case of the only level crossing for the London Underground which is located in Neasden Depot.

There's one on the DLR as well. The Google car found it with the gates down

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5110868 ... 384!8i8192

[jervi]

If you are talking about crossings that have wigwags. Then what about a horse race course (although the barrier is more to keep the horses in rather than the cars out). https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.83432 ... 312!8i6656
Of course you find wig wags are quite common at fire stations, however for obvious reasons, there are no barriers

Also, there is already a similar thread to this: viewtopic.php?t=33452#p730816

From the other thread.

I always thought that there used to be wig-wags here for the hovercraft crossing (service long since stopped) but they appear to have been replaced with a speed camera...

[Big Nick]

Ballykelly is the one that comes to mind although I'm not sure an actual level crossing existed. The runway was extended in 1943 to cross the railway.
Nice photo of a train and a plane on the runway! https://forgottenairfields.com/airfield ... y-933.html

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.05793 ... a=!3m1!1e3


I point you at this thread for better answers - viewtopic.php?t=24227

Here's a runway crossing to make you sweat... https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@12.49958 ... 312!8i6656

[hoagy_ytfc]

I only know of 3 locations where there is a level crossing for airport runways:...

There used to be a famous crossing at LHR - it was still there I recall when I watched the final Concorde flights come in.

(Not a runway, but a route from taxiway to hanger area)

[Bryn666]

I only know of 3 locations where there is a level crossing for airport runways:...

There used to be a famous crossing at LHR - it was still there I recall when I watched the final Concorde flights come in.

(Not a runway, but a route from taxiway to hanger area)

The location still exists you just can't access it as a member of the public. The Eastern Perimeter Road takes you away from it.

[avtur]

I'm sure I've seen traffic lights used to control road traffic at cattle crossings on main roads.

[Al__S]

Cattle crossings have a different light- it's a pair of amber flashing lights, vertically, that flash alternately.

"Runway end" lights are not that uncommon, where a road is outside the airfield perimeter but close to the runway. Cambridge has them both ends, only used for operations involving Heavy or Super Heavy aircraft (they do servicing, have a hanger that fits a 747-400)

[Fenlander]

I almost had to stop at the runway end lights at RAF Conningsby the other day, they were on red as 2 Typhoons came in to land but they got there quicker than I did and unlike the railway ones they quickly went out as soon as the need for them had gone.

[AutomaticBeloved]

Cattle crossings have a different light- it's a pair of amber flashing lights, vertically, that flash alternately.

"Runway end" lights are not that uncommon, where a road is outside the airfield perimeter but close to the runway. Cambridge has them both ends, only used for operations involving Heavy or Super Heavy aircraft (they do servicing, have a hanger that fits a 747-400)

There used to be a set of cattle crossings on the A30 in Cornwall that used level crossing lights.

Also there is a set near the Airbus factory in Wales for when large aircraft parts need to be transported to barges on the River Dee (originally for A380 parts that were too big to be flown, but I suspect smaller parts destined for the US and China assembly lines will go out by ship)

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1895283 ... 312!8i6656

[AndyB]

Ballykelly is the one that comes to mind although I'm not sure an actual level crossing existed. The runway was extended in 1943 to cross the railway.
Nice photo of a train and a plane on the runway! https://forgottenairfields.com/airfield ... y-933.html

It wasn't a level crossing as such, but when trains were passing planes couldn't use the runway extension. The extension is still there, but long since fenced off.

The signalbox remained in place until three or four years ago, nearly 70 years after it closed.

[Ruperts Trooper]

During WW2, Austin's shadow factory at Castle Bromwich built Spitfires and Lancaster which were rolled across the road, now A452, to the adjacent airfield near the present Spitfire Island - the factory now builds Jaguars and the airfield is the Castle Vale housing estate.

There used to be an aircraft crossing, operated by wig-wags, at Bitteswell on the A428 (now A4303) near it's junction with the A5 - Armstrong-Siddeley/Bristol-Siddeley/Rolls-Royce used the airfield as a jet engine development site from 1956-1983 - it's now the Magna Park distribution centre.

[alice]

There used to be a set of cattle crossings on the A30 in Cornwall that used level crossing lights.

The ones on the A338 used level-crossing style ones too: https://goo.gl/maps/ZXgjd6uhRbC4okSh9

[Rob590]

This one is used when bits of boats and submarines are being moved around the dockyard in Barrow-in-Furness

[BeenEverywhere]

I almost had to stop at the runway end lights at RAF Conningsby the other day, they were on red as 2 Typhoons came in to land but they got there quicker than I did and unlike the railway ones they quickly went out as soon as the need for them had gone.

The one at Waddington is generally more interesting, you normally get a couple of minutes in a ringside seat as something big comes in to land.

[PhilC]

There's a level crossing at Colyford on the A3052 in Devon where the Seaton miniature tramway crosses the road. The tram driver stops just short of the crossing and uses a key to operate the wig-wags. Once clear of the crossing the driver switches them off again.

https://goo.gl/maps/mNH3hdzrjfsry6Ev9

[KeithW]

There are of course multiple level crossings on the Blackpool Tram system many of them unprotected.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.86571 ... authuser=0
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.79080 ... authuser=0
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.87048 ... authuser=0

There are also crossings on the Cambridge Guided Busway on which other vehicles get themselves stuck from time to time.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.22954 ... authuser=0
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... t-16556880
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... y-15801976

Also on Newmarket Road in Cambridge there are lights to halt traffic when something large and heavy is using Marshalls Airfield
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.21138 ... authuser=0

[Richard_Fairhurst]

Plenty of swing/lift-bridges over canals, such as this one at Wrenbury Mill on the Llangollen Canal:

https://goo.gl/maps/ZVAyt3UMHpPTGwAJ8

[Johnathan404]

I'm pretty sure the hovercraft crossing in Lee-on-the-Solent had wig-wags when it was in regular use.

[Chris Bertram]

There are of course multiple level crossings on the Blackpool Tram system many of them unprotected.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.86571 ... authuser=0
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.79080 ... authuser=0
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.87048 ... authuser=0

There are also crossings on the Cambridge Guided Busway on which other vehicles get themselves stuck from time to time.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.22954 ... authuser=0
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... t-16556880
https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/c ... y-15801976

Also on Newmarket Road in Cambridge there are lights to halt traffic when something large and heavy is using Marshalls Airfield
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.21138 ... authuser=0

There are quite a few crossings of the Midland Metro, and also of the T&W Metro. Although equipped with wig-wag signals, they do not have barriers, which seems to be standard for tram or light rail systems.