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[NathanFromEngland]

Wheel operated crossing with lights!
AOCL on a narrow road, these are very rare to find, as most are being replaced by AOCL+B's.
This is cool! Active AOCR in Yorkshire on a steam railway! Only two of these types of crossing remain! They became popular in the early 1980's but demised after the 1986 Lockington rail accident.

[NathanFromEngland]

Strange crossing
Active crossing, Notice anything different?

[ToledoRailfan]

[url=linkhttps://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.4363126,0.43 ... 312!8i6656]Strange crossing[/url]
[url=linkhttps://www.google.com.au/maps/@50.7177265,-1.9 ... 312!8i6656]Active crossing, Notice anything different?[/url]

Your links don't work because they shouldn't contain the word "link".

Strange crossing

It looks like a private crossing.

Active crossing, Notice anything different?

That is a pretty cool crossing but what is different about it?

[NathanFromEngland]

[urlhttps://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.4363126,0.43 ... 312!8i6656]Strange crossing[/url]
[url=linkhttps://www.google.com.au/maps/@50.7177265,-1.9 ... 312!8i6656]Active crossing, Notice anything different?[/url]

Your links don't work because they shouldn't contain the word "link".

Strange crossing

It looks like a private crossing.

Active crossing, Notice anything different?

That is a pretty cool crossing but what is different about it?

What do you mean my links don't work?

EDIT: but if i remove link then the link with text falls apart!

[ToledoRailfan]

Your links should look like this:

[url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.4363 ... 312!8i6656]Strange crossing[/url]
[url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/@50.7177 ... 312!8i6656]Active crossing, Notice anything different?[/url]

Not like this:

[url=linkhttps://www.google.com.au/maps/@51.4363126,0.43 ... 312!8i6656]Strange crossing[/url]
[url=linkhttps://www.google.com.au/maps/@50.7177265,-1.9 ... 312!8i6656]Active crossing, Notice anything different?[/url]

[ToledoRailfan]

You had it right the first time.

[ToledoRailfan]

Here is an interesting crossing. The crossing is activated manually a worker. This crossing is on the Seaton Tramway.
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7292117 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7290886 ... 6656?hl=en

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.729169, ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.7291271 ... 6656?hl=en

Here is a video of the crossing.

[NathanFromEngland]

Foot crossing with former old gates
Foot crossing with a pushbutton to cross! The signals were installed in the mid 90's until they were pedestrianized between 2004-2005. These types of crossings are called "Manually Controlled Barrier crossing On Call" or otherwise known as a MCB-OC

[ToledoRailfan]

These types of crossings are called "Manually Controlled Barrier crossing On Call" or otherwise known as a MCB-OC[/url]

Is that a new type of crossing? Someone from Lincolnshire filmed a crossing that had been upgraded to an MCB-OC, before it was upgraded I think a worker would open the barriers for cars. What is interesting about MCB-OCs is that the signals activate just to warn motorists of the barriers closing and not for an oncoming train.

[ToledoRailfan]

I found a crossing with a buckeye crossbuck setup in Heath, Ohio that was still in service in October of 2016. I wonder if they're still there? Interesting how the one crossbuck is not a buckeye crossbuck, I wonder if the other one is a buckeye crossbuck? This crossing also has 1 track signs!
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0220528 ... 6656?hl=en

Interestingly enough this is new! Probably not the signage itself though.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.022235, ... 1664?hl=en

It isn't the first time that I've heard of a crossing recently getting a buckeye crossbuck setup. This crossing on an alley here in Toledo had buckeye crossbuck setups added to it sometime between 2008 and 2011.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6623691 ... 6656?hl=en
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.6623514 ... 1664?hl=en

If I remember correctly, I think that one crossing that I found in Indiana with buckeye crossbuck setups was also a recent install as street view had been to the crossing before the buckeye crossbuck signage was added.