Australian Railroad Crossing Signals

[chris96]

Just stumbled upon this as well. Seems like a pedestrian crossing with a fire alarm bell:
http://www.oocities.org/loco_b67/taspedbell0084.JPG

[TrickyMario7654]

Someone forgot to realign the signals after they duplicated this road.
http://www.oocities.org/loco_b67/TrafeastX0437.JPG

The traffic lights at this crossing are still green even though the red lights on the crossing signal are flashing.
http://www.oocities.org/loco_b67/Trafstopgo0035.JPG

When the Barinsdale was out of service, they used a speed hump sign to warn motorists of the disused crossing ahead.
http://www.oocities.org/loco_b67/Bairns ... pX0409.JPG

[TrickyMario7654]

http://www.trainweb.org/dansrailpix/WIG ... ralia2.htm

Came across this website listing all the Wig Wags that operated in Victoria. I'll make this updated list showing off the current state of each crossing

Suburban and Outer Suburban Wig Wags

• Anderson Road, Sunshine - Albion (Installed 1927, replaced with flashing lights 1936, replaced with boom barriers 1961, grade separated 2014)
• Bakers Road, Batman - Merlynston (Installed 1926, replaced with flashing lights 1959, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Amess Street, Nth Carlton - Nth Fitzroy (installed 1923, replaced with flashing lights 1944, line officially closed 1981 to freight traffic)
• Lower Plenty Rd, Rosanna (Installed 1925/1926, replaced with flashing lights 1958, replaced with boom barriers 1972, crossing to be grade separated)
• Grimshaw Road, Watsonia - Greensborough (installed 1926, replaced with flashing lights 1959, grade separated 1978/79)
• William Street, Watsonia - Greensborough (installed 1925, replaced with flashing lights 1959, grade separated 1978/79)
• Rooks Road, Nunawading - Mitcham (installed 1927, replaced with flashing lights 1956, replaced with boom barriers 1979, grade separated 2014)
• Mitcham Road, Mitcham (installed 1925, replaced with flashing lights 1953, replaced with boom barriers 1979, grade separated 2014)
• Bedford Road, Ringwood - Heathmont (installed 1925, replaced with flashing lights 1962, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Dublin Road, Ringwood East (installed 1929, replaced with flashing lights 1962, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Main Street/Cool Store Road, Croydon (installed 1928, replaced with flashing lights 1957, replaced with boom barriers sometime between the mid 70's to early 80's)
• Warburton Road, Launching Place (U) (installed 1926, line closed 1965)
• Warburton Road, Launching Place (D) (installed 1924, line closed 1965)
• Yarra Glen Road, Yarra Glen (installed 1927, replaced with flashing lights 1970, line closed 1981)
• Exley Road, Moorabbin - Highett (installed 1927, crossing closed 1952)
• Station Street, Mordialloc - Aspendale (installed 1926, replaced with flashing lights 1965, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Nepean Highway, Moorooduc - Mornington (installed 1924, replaced with flashing lights 1943, line closed 1981)
• Hastings Road, Baxter - Somerville (installed 1924, replaced with flashing lights 1962, replaced with boom barriers years later)

[chris96]

Here's the last wig wag signal in Victoria being taken down from Chanters Lane on the Daylesford line in 1974:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58476760@N05/5810873702

There's a preserved example at the Newport Railway Museum that still works! Here it is in action:

[TrickyMario7654]

Here's the last wig wag signal in Victoria being taken down from Chanters Lane on the Daylesford line in 1974:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58476760@N05/5810873702

There's a preserved example at the Newport Railway Museum that still works! Here it is in action:

More neat finds! It's a shame when they replace older equipment

After seeing this video below, I thought I better photograph the crossings that our government is gonna remove... (I'm hoping to the ones on the Dandenong corridor, especially the two Clayton crossings, the Murrumbeena crossing, and Corrigan Road, Noble Park)

[cabman701]

http://www.trainweb.org/dansrailpix/WIG ... ralia2.htm

Came across this website listing all the Wig Wags that operated in Victoria. I'll make this updated list showing off the current state of each crossing

Suburban and Outer Suburban Wig Wags

• Anderson Road, Sunshine - Albion (Installed 1927, replaced with flashing lights 1936, replaced with boom barriers 1961, grade separated 2014)
• Bakers Road, Batman - Merlynston (Installed 1926, replaced with flashing lights 1959, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Amess Street, Nth Carlton - Nth Fitzroy (installed 1923, replaced with flashing lights 1944, line officially closed 1981 to freight traffic)
• Lower Plenty Rd, Rosanna (Installed 1925/1926, replaced with flashing lights 1958, replaced with boom barriers 1972, crossing to be grade separated)
• Grimshaw Road, Watsonia - Greensborough (installed 1926, replaced with flashing lights 1959, grade separated 1978/79)
• William Street, Watsonia - Greensborough (installed 1925, replaced with flashing lights 1959, grade separated 1978/79)
• Rooks Road, Nunawading - Mitcham (installed 1927, replaced with flashing lights 1956, replaced with boom barriers 1979, grade separated 2014)
• Mitcham Road, Mitcham (installed 1925, replaced with flashing lights 1953, replaced with boom barriers 1979, grade separated 2014)
• Bedford Road, Ringwood - Heathmont (installed 1925, replaced with flashing lights 1962, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Dublin Road, Ringwood East (installed 1929, replaced with flashing lights 1962, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Main Street/Cool Store Road, Croydon (installed 1928, replaced with flashing lights 1957, replaced with boom barriers sometime between the mid 70's to early 80's)
• Warburton Road, Launching Place (U) (installed 1926, line closed 1965)
• Warburton Road, Launching Place (D) (installed 1924, line closed 1965)
• Yarra Glen Road, Yarra Glen (installed 1927, replaced with flashing lights 1970, line closed 1981)
• Exley Road, Moorabbin - Highett (installed 1927, crossing closed 1952)
• Station Street, Mordialloc - Aspendale (installed 1926, replaced with flashing lights 1965, replaced with boom barriers years later)
• Nepean Highway, Moorooduc - Mornington (installed 1924, replaced with flashing lights 1943, line closed 1981)
• Hastings Road, Baxter - Somerville (installed 1924, replaced with flashing lights 1962, replaced with boom barriers years later)

Dan's wig wag site is one of the first railroad websites I found many years ago. Lot's of neat stuff on there. Unfortunately it is no longer updated... it is coming up on 3 years since it last was.

[McK&H.Aust]

Found some more industrial crossings around Newcastle.

This one is at Kooragang and has Westinghouse hybrid bells
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.886 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.886 ... 312!8i6656

This one is also at Kooragang, not far from the first crossing. It has two cantilever signals which is rare in NSW. Check out the bell placement, this signal has none https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.884 ... 312!8i6656
while this signal has 2 Safetran type 3's, notice where the rear facing lights are mounted and how they ran the wires to them!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.883 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.883 ... 312!8i6656
back in 2010 it had 2 Westinghouse hybrid bells https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.883 ... 312!8i6656

This crossing at Carrington is a very long one that runs through an intersection
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.911 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.911 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.910 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.911 ... 312!8i6656
Although it has more boring Safetran type 3 e-bells now, check out what it had back in 2010
A teardrop bell which looks like a Westinghouse https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.911 ... 312!8i6656
and a WCH mechanical bell https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.910 ... 312!8i6656
one of the signal maintainers is waving to the google car https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.910 ... 312!8i6656

These crossings are on a private spur line which runs into the Goninan facility, they manufacture locomotives and rolling stock.
This one has the old triangles below the crossbucks, Give Way sings are now used instead. It looks like there are workers waiting to flag the crossing, they must be expecting a train as the gates are open.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.911 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.911 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.911 ... 312!8i6656

The next crossing https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.913 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.913 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.913 ... 312!8i6656

[TrickyMario7654]

Found some more industrial crossings around Newcastle.

Hold on, didn't they closed the line to Newcastle in 2014?

[McK&H.Aust]

Found some more industrial crossings around Newcastle.

Hold on, didn't they closed the line to Newcastle in 2014?

Only a small part of the line (about 3km I think) in the middle of the city, it was on a dead end and was between Wickham and Newcastle passenger stations. The rest of the rail network is still operational.

[TrickyMario7654]

Found some more industrial crossings around Newcastle.

Hold on, didn't they closed the line to Newcastle in 2014?

Only a small part of the line (about 3km I think) in the middle of the city, it was on a dead end and was between Wickham and Newcastle passenger stations. The rest of the rail network is still operational.

Oh, I see.