Long Lane CCTV Level Crossing
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Long Lane CCTV Level Crossing by Nick W as part of the Geograph project.
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Long Lane CCTV Level Crossing
Image: © Nick W Taken: 29 Oct 2007
This is on the railway from Northallerton to Eaglescliffe - known on the railways as the Leeds Northern because when it was originally built it started in Leeds and came through Ripon then Northallerton. This crossing took many years to modernise due to the very close proximity of the road junction. When the Signal Box at Low Gates - See Bob Embleton's photo Image - was converted from mechanical in the 1970's there was provision for this crossing to be made into Automatic Half Barriers but the HMRI & MOT as they were then would not allow it to be converted. It was eventually converted in the late 1990's and is now totally controlled by Low Gates via the green building in the middle of the photo.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.380548
Longitude
-1.408759