Eccles Road Station - opening of the crossing gates
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The photograph on this page of Eccles Road Station - opening of the crossing gates by Evelyn Simak as part of the Geograph project.
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Eccles Road Station - opening of the crossing gates
Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 13 Jul 2009
A train has just passed and the signalman has come out of the signal box in order to open the crossing gates on Station Road where the first of the waiting cars can be seen crossing the railway tracks. Eccles Road railway station is served by local services operated by East Midlands Trains and National Express East Anglia running from Norwich to Peterborough and Cambridge. The station is unstaffed and has two platforms adjacent to a level crossing which is manually controlled. The staffed ex-GER (Great Eastern Railway) signal box > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1399004 is located across the road from the west-bound platform. The old village of Eccles was abandoned and only St Mary's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1399018 still stands on the site. The new village was built by the railway station.
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