Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

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

Those are actually really common here nowadays. Most new installations use them.

chris96 wrote:

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

Those are actually really common here nowadays. Most new installations use them.

Here's some more examples...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.902 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.011 ... 312!8i6656

TrickyMario7654 wrote:

chris96 wrote:

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

Those are actually really common here nowadays. Most new installations use them.

Here's some more examples...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.902 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.011 ... 312!8i6656

Ah. Look to be WCH ones.

Found some writing on this hybrid bell. (Anyone have any idea why it's on there?)
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.924 ... 312!8i6656

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Found some writing on this hybrid bell. (Anyone have any idea why it's on there?)
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.924 ... 312!8i6656

Maybe it was one of the ones checked by the quality control people before the batch got shipped out?

freebrickproductions wrote:

TrickyMario7654 wrote:Found some writing on this hybrid bell. (Anyone have any idea why it's on there?)
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.924 ... 312!8i6656

Maybe it was one of the ones checked by the quality control people before the batch got shipped out?

That's possible, the writing is gone when they went through in October of last year...
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.924 ... 312!8i6656

Found this picture of a "Road & Cycle Safety Centre" in Australia, which has a pair of gateless signals in use at it.

Tea Tree Gully Road & Cycle Safety Centre by RS 1990, on Flickr
Check out the bell though! I ain't never seen one like that before.

There's a railway that runs around the Caribbean Market & Gardens and there's a few signals in there. This one's at the entrance and has Safetran Mechanical bell and a WABCO bell! Guess their not dead in Melbourne!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.905 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.905 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.905 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.905 ... 312!8i6656

Found this unusual setup for a one-way crossing at Dunmore NSW, on a siding that goes to the quarry there. Looks a lot like an American crossing.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.608 ... 328!8i1664
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.608 ... 328!8i1664
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.608 ... 328!8i1664
there also used to be a second crossing here that had teardrop bells, but it was closed not long after these images were taken.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.608 ... 328!8i1664
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.608 ... 328!8i1664

A little further to the south is Bombo Quarry, also with it's own siding and unusual crossing.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.653 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.653 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.654 ... 312!8i6656
It also has a pedestrian crossing. Not sure what the red things are that are fixed on top of the masts, they look like Roshni sounders but it would be very strange to have them mounted facing up!
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.654 ... 312!8i6656

Found a signal maintainer doing maintenance at Bonbeach.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-38.063 ... 312!8i6656

Mix of WRRS & Westinghouse gate mechanisms.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.744 ... 312!8i6656
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.744 ... 312!8i6656

Really out of sync gate mechanisms.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-37.730 ... 312!8i6656

This picture taken by PJV in 1976 shows this crossing in Watsonia with no crossbucks what so ever! Sadly, this crossing is long gone as they grade separated it (along with three other nearby crossings) when they duplicated the line between Macleod and Greensborough.

PJV's site also has loads of pictures showing off the project.
http://www.pjv101.net/film_bw/pjv00674.htm
http://www.pjv101.net/film_bw/pjv00675.htm
http://www.pjv101.net/film_bw/pjv00676.htm