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L.J.D wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 23:24 Check out these oddballs!!

Mellors before

Elites after

Never seen anything like that before where the main lights are off and arrow left on :o
I wonder if that green arrow is being fed from an auxiliary supply (such as the box sign supply), hence it not going off with the signals.

What's more confusing is the signals being part time. Does anyone know why they're there? It might be glaringly obvious, but I can't see anything special while quickly looking at the map!
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Ah yes, everyone's favourite arrangement. Just providing everyone else is seeing an entirely red version :lol:
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If we are mentioning unique signals, then I think the llanwrst bridge wig wag's deserve a mention.

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Tom Williams wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 19:45 If we are mentioning unique signals, then I think the Llanrwst bridge wig wag's deserve a mention.

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? before: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1366773 ... 6?hl=en-GB
Microsense After: https://www.google.com/maps/@53.1366085 ... 6?hl=en-GB
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Tom Williams wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 19:45 If we are mentioning unique signals, then I think the llanwrst bridge wig wag's deserve a mention.

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I'd forgotten about those, are they still there? Although the strange arrangement serves a purpose, I'd have expected it to have just become a signalised junction with shuttle working on one arm by now.
The before are GEC Mellors, the after being Microsense WWSH.
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A signal post with a bin attached to it: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.82338 ... authuser=0
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Are horse crossings particularly common?
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This has been featured before. Perhaps not unique but there is a cycle only right turn filter here https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4143509 ... 312!8i6656 which can't be very common.
Also since GSV has recorded, the signals have recently been upgraded to show the bicycle symbol inside the colour spectacles.
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Jonathan24 wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 10:16 Are horse crossings particularly common?
The only two I know of in the area around me were built a few years ago on the same road here and here. One is strangely only a pegasus crossing - there is no parallel toucan.
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Nathan_A_RF wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 12:20
Jonathan24 wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 10:16 Are horse crossings particularly common?
The only two I know of in the area around me were built a few years ago on the same road here and here. One is strangely only a pegasus crossing - there is no parallel toucan.
Here is one near Ripley
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Jonathan24 wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 10:16 Are horse crossings particularly common?
One locally on the A6033 in Greater Manchester where the Pennine Bridleway crosses at Summit. Horses are clearly expected to use the pavement, judging by the position of the high-level call button (and pile of dung!).

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Jonathan24 wrote: Sat May 29, 2021 10:16 Are horse crossings particularly common?
I was going to say that I could think of two off the top of my head - and then I found you'd linked to one of them!

The other's on the A435 here.
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I believe there are one or two in the Newmarket area.
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These are certainly unique :o
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L.J.D wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 05:34 These are certainly unique :o
There is no stop line for the second set beyond The Queens.
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L.J.D wrote: Sun Jun 06, 2021 05:34 These are certainly unique :o
I'm sure I've seen something very similar from the same manufacturer at a few sites in a bus station in London.

This must be a private road, surely?

Edit: This appears to be the supplier of the Leeds installations.

They've really gone out their way to over-sell CLS aspects too, and in doing so, have written "this also reduces the chance of breakages, as there is just one light instead of many", when of course the opposite is actually true.
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Pegasus crossings are not that uncommon, just find where a popular bridleway crosses over a somewhat busy road.
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0973669 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0635975 ... 384!8i8192
https://www.google.com/maps/@52.5290025 ... 312!8i6656 - this one is set back behind the pavement, and is odd since it now takes a weird route around the junction, go back in time and the crossing was further up the road.
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.2343282 ... 384!8i8192
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Can't get a link on my phone to street view, but in Selby on Recreation Road there are a set of what look like very old signals for the passage under the former ECML. Not many of these about I'm sure.
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