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Post by blackhorsesteve on Nov 4, 2015 17:27:40 GMT
Sorry to go slightly off-topic but aren't there pedestrian crossings on the Epping-Ongar railway? Or have they been got rid of (or did I imagine it)?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Nov 4, 2015 18:13:53 GMT
Looking at the large scale Ordnance survey maps, there appear to be three public footpaths crossing the line between Ongar and Blake Hall without benefit of a bridge. There are two more between Amersham and the LT/NR boundary (which, as we are told on another thread, is not at Mantles Wood, but at High Spring). EDIT - re-reading that post, the second crossing on the Chiltern Line appears to be just on the NR side of the boundary, by a matter of yards! |
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Post by miff on Nov 4, 2015 20:19:44 GMT
I guess DfT or Network Snail would provide them on request. I might have a copy of one for Highams Park I didn't find my copy but I have found the 2002 Highams Park LC Order on line as part of somebody's FOI request response. I don't know whether this version is still current. Page 6 includes the requirement that the road is normally open except when a train needs to cross. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/270036/response/666557/attach/8/HIGHAMS%20PARK%202002.pdf |
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Post by Dstock7080 on Nov 4, 2015 21:31:11 GMT
Dstock, sorry for my ignorance; where is that? Possibly Neasden depot, as there is a level crossing across the southern entrance road. Ealing Common depot. |
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Post by howda62 on Nov 4, 2015 21:31:28 GMT
Looking at the large scale Ordnance survey maps, there appear to be three public footpaths crossing the line between Ongar and Blake Hall without benefit of a bridge. There are two more between Amersham and the LT/NR boundary (which, as we are told on another thread, is not at Mantles Wood, but at High Spring). EDIT - re-reading that post, the second crossing on the Chiltern Line appears to be just on the NR side of the boundary, by a matter of yards!
Yes indeed, the crossing is a short distance north of the NR/LT boundary. The photo at the top of that LT/NR boundary article is obviously looking northbound, and if you look at the middle of the picture near the right hand edge you will see a shiny object in the middle of the left hand (northbound) track. That is a ramp leading onto the edge of the pedestrian crossing which has a raised platform to track height between the tracks.
The metal post and signs you can see immediately to the right of the foreground sign (and left of the northbound track) includes a quite old rectangular sign that is also declaring the track boundary between BR and LUL. There is a changeover in style of sleepers and track clips at this point.
Considering the point where the track type changes, it is about 20 yards south of this pedestrian crossing. At a guess the more southerly sign in the linked article is about another 30-40 yards away from the crossing. I wonder where between the two sets of signs the actual boundary is, but wherever it is, the crossing is north of it.
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Post by stapler on Nov 4, 2015 23:36:33 GMT
I guess DfT or Network Snail would provide them on request. I might have a copy of one for Highams Park I didn't find my copy but I have found the 2002 Highams Park LC Order on line as part of somebody's FOI request response. I don't know whether this version is still current. Page 6 includes the requirement that the road is normally open except when a train needs to cross. www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/270036/response/666557/attach/8/HIGHAMS%20PARK%202002.pdfmany thanks, Miff. Wonder if raising them by hand involves some windlass type arrangement, or just brute force? If the latter, don't tell the Chingford skinheads... |
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