Abandoned Level Crossings

[Unbreakify]

Im curious about some of the abandoned level crossings around Britain.

Some can be fully removed from history, but still have photo evidence.
Some can some equipment left.
Some can have all their equipment left.
And strangely, some can have their equipment renewed, For example, Moody Ln.

If anyone has photos, information, or anything related to Abandoned Level Crossings, feel free to post it here.

For anyone curious, Moody Ln looks like this:
https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5781388 ... 384!8i8192

[jervi]

I know of quite alot of abandoned level crossings, however I don't have photos of them, nor are a lot of them accessible to the public in general.

I guess there are different types of abandoned level crossings too, there are those where the line is closed, there are those where the road is closed, either to all traffic or just motor traffic.

One you can see, although there isn't much left of it, is the old A27 level crossing at Beddingham. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.85626 ... a=!3m1!1e3 I've peeped over the edge of the bridge a few times when cycling along here to take a look. Pretty much just the old surface of the level crossing with the no stopping markings and then the barriers have been replaced with mesh fencing.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.83580 ... 384!8i8192 This level crossing became pedestrian only in the 80s I think, but then was replaced by a bridge about 7 years ago, but you can clearly see where the crossing was as there is a gate and signage (covered).

I often go to running competitions in military training areas, and quite a few of those have old railway lines with levels crossings which haven't seen trains in decades. Bramley Training area near Basingstoke comes to mind first, also Caerwent in Wales has alot of old railway lines running though it, although most tracks have been lifted there.

[Isleworth1961]

Remains in Avonmouth:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5211235 ... 384!8i8192

[orudge]

The crossings on the A5 and A483 at Oswestry are disused.

[gepree68]

Remains in Avonmouth:
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5211235 ... 384!8i8192

The same Avonmouth A403 location, but this time from 2012, showing exactly where the railway used to go:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.5212312 ... 312!8i6656

[Scratchwood]

I was staying in the hotel next door on the night this level crossing in Ipswich was dug up!

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0517554 ... 312!8i6656

[Kinitawowi]

This one in Kings Lynn has been in various stages of dismantlement over the years. (The line hasn't been used since 1994.)

[doebag]

https://goo.gl/maps/aFpJLWp4P4WzBJY97

This one on the B1101 north of March. Not used in 20 odd years.

[Brenley Corner]

Although I think this line & crossing is still "technically" open across the A259 Trunk Road for rail access to Dungeness Power Station, you'd be extremely unlucky to ever find a train here.

[Bfivethousand]

Wheelwright Lane, Coventry - unusual in that it lies within a signalised junction.

[Helvellyn]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.85178 ... en&ucbcb=1
About the only sign around left that there was ever any railway here, on a branch to Cocklakes Mine off the Settle-Carlisle.

[Big L]

One just outside Penkridge on the line to the closed Littleton Colliery.

[Nogger]

This is a before and after on the A249 on the Isle of Sheppey.

2015 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.43952 ... 312!8i6656

2022 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.43954 ... 384!8i8192

Google Earth image from 2003 showing the crossing in use.

[Helvellyn]

Wheelwright Lane, Coventry - unusual in that it lies within a signalised junction.

What's the story with that one? Looking at the track condition it can't have been disused for very long, and following it on the aerial views it only seems to have got overgrown near the (still intact-looking, complete with lit signal) junction.

[Lockwood]

A4 Bath Road, near Heathrow?

Track lifted, lights mostly remaining. Looking quite sad for itself.

One in Gosport - not sure if it is still there. Tracks across road, nothing ever running there again

[AndyB]

Closed since 1950!

[RichardA35]

Although I think this line & crossing is still "technically" open across the A259 Trunk Road for rail access to Dungeness Power Station, you'd be extremely unlucky to ever find a train here.

Path in for 3/1/2023 https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/servic ... /detailed

[Helvellyn]

Closed since 1950!

Not too many houses have a railway pointing straight through their gate directly at their house! Nice one.

[AndyB]

Yes, like many keepers' cottages, it's obviously been extended across the trackbed. The level crossing even survived the widening of the main road to Ards when you might have thought they would have ripped up the rails at that time.

[SouthWest Philip]

Although I think this line & crossing is still "technically" open across the A259 Trunk Road for rail access to Dungeness Power Station, you'd be extremely unlucky to ever find a train here.

Path in for 3/1/2023 https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/servic ... /detailed

Opportunity for a late night Sabre trip to see a string of rarely used level crossings in use?!

Seems like a convoluted routing, especially heading to Ashford and back twice. What type of train would this be? And what would it carry. Looking at the OS map, it seems the actual railway line stops about 2 miles short of the power station at Dungeness.