The full town name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch BTW.
Pronunciation guide!
Gotta love those Welsh names! The name in English is Mary's house in the hollow of the white hazel rapid whirlpool at the church of the red cave. The majority of the people in this village speak Welsh.
This Sim Metal siding is also the same place where they scarped various Hitachi EMU carriages between 2003-2005. This video shows off one of those transfers as well as this crossing in action (See 5:58). At the time, the crossing had Westinghouse Hybrid bells instead of the GS E-Bells currently seen on the crossing. The six-car set Hitachi seen in the video is 92M-1976T-18M-150M-1967T-182M (M meaning Motor car & T meaning Trailer car). Ian Green from Vicsig has a picture of 92M (one of the cars in the set) about be cut up.
If you ask me about this, I'll tell you that this is a total waste of a train as each of these carriages weren't really that old...
92M: Entered service 1976
1976T: Entered service as 362D (D meaning Driving trailer) in 1977, converted to 1976T in 1980
18M: Entered service 1974
150M: Entered service 1978
1967T: Entered service as 363D in 1977, converted to 1967T in c.1979/80
182M: Entered service 1979
In the end, Melbourne's rail network suffered from a train shortage several years later all because of the stupid decision to scarp all but seven six-car Hitachi sets just because they ordered newer trains that have air-conditioning (which the Hitachi's lack, even then, the Hitachi trains were still very reliable).
The preemption lights are used to stop cars from banking up over the tracks. If the lights were only positioned over the other side of the tracks, cars would have to stop in the middle of the tracks and would surely lead to confusion.
The name in English is Mary's house in the hollow of the white hazel rapid whirlpool at the church of the red cave. The majority of the people in this village speak Welsh.
