Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

chris96 wrote:Fast forward to 2010 and the crossing now has new LED rectangular backgrounds, but also has a teardrop bell! :
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.704 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.704 ... 312!8i6656

Also, check out how tall the signal is on the other side of the road!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.704 ... 312!8i6656

Some more old interesting pictures of Australian crossings...

An old picture of Puffing Billy going through a crossing with an old-style crossbuck at Upper Ferntree Gully back in the very early days of the tourist railway in which they ran on the line between Upper Ferntree Gully and Belgrave. This section has since been converted to board gauge and electrified.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/133410.jpg

A picture of a blue 'Harris' train about to go through the old Glenhuntly Road tramsquare crossing in Elsternwick. This crossing was grade separated in 1960 and is obviously long gone.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/133618.jpg

Classic Wig-Wag at Tylden (I assume this signal is long gone).
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/105834.jpg

Australian flashing lights signal with a 90 degree crossbuck.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/109303.jpg

Old picture of the Riversdale Road tramsquare crossing (This must of been the first tramsquare crossing in Melbourne to have boom barriers and is also the only crossing in Melbourne AFAIK to have quad gates).
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/133800.jpg

Nice picture shot in 1989 showing off one of the many handgate crossings that used to exist on the Upfield line (they were still in service until 1998!) Also shows off the last Hitachi set (65M-965T-88M) to still be in the original plain sliver condition and not have MET/PTC stickers! This same 3-car set was also one of the last Hitachi sets to still be in revenue service (Though with 1982T instead of 965T/1965T, which was moved to a different set and later cut up for scarp in 2005). It was withdrawn along with another 3-car following a derailment in January 2013.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/117115.jpg

Odd gate lights at this Western Australian crossing.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/121630.jpg

Picture of the now gone crossing at the intersection of Boronia and Dorset Roads.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/122628.jpg

Turns out that the crossbuck on a red background sign existed in the late 90's outside of Queensland. (This one is in SA)
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/122798.jpg

All of these were taken by Weston Langford.

TrickyMario7654 wrote: Turns out that the crossbuck on a red background sign existed in the late 90's outside of Queensland. (This one is in SA)
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/122798.jpg
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I've wanted to know this for a while, what is the story behind those crossbucks with the red backgrounds? When do they decide to use them instead of using normal crossbucks?

ToledoRailfan wrote:

TrickyMario7654 wrote: Turns out that the crossbuck on a red background sign existed in the late 90's outside of Queensland. (This one is in SA)
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/122798.jpg
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I've wanted to know this for a while, what is the story behind those crossbucks with the red backgrounds? When do they decide to use them instead of using normal crossbucks?

McK&H Aust wrote:I believe the Australian Standards for crossings have been updated and those red cross-bucks are meant to be used because they are more visible to road users.

There's your answer...

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Australian flashing lights signal with a 90 degree crossbuck.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/109303.jpg

GRS XB/XD lights! Nice find!

freebrickproductions wrote:

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Australian flashing lights signal with a 90 degree crossbuck.
http://www.westonlangford.com/media/photos/109303.jpg

GRS XB/XD lights! Nice find!

That's the second time I've found a crossing with GRS XB/XD lights without realizing...

I've posted this in the Google Maps Scavenger Hunt thread already, but I thought I'll reshare this find. For some reason, the crossing at Poath Road in Hughesdale had the lantern lights on top of the gate rather than below the gate like most other crossings with A-gates in Australia.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.894 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.894 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.894 ... 328!8i1664

Sometime between 2012 & 2013, the lights were moved to the typical below the gate position.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.894 ... 312!8i6656

freebrickproductions wrote:

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Australian flashing lights signal with a 90 degree crossbuck!

Kind of looks Canadian before the switch to the red outline crossbuck.

Look how weird this crossing barrier looks at this South Australia crossing! GSV also managed to get the crossing active too! (Not to mention, they totally ignored the fact that the signals were active and a train was coming)
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.649 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.649 ... 312!8i6656

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Look how weird this crossing barrier looks at this South Australia crossing! GSV also managed to get the crossing active too! (Not to mention, they totally ignored the fact that the signals were active and a train was coming)
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.649 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.649 ... 312!8i6656

The other signal appears to have standard American gate lights as well.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.649 ... 312!8i6656