Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum

Found this on youtube and thought it was interesting, not very often do you see mechanical bell failures on video. The crossing is in Sydney, Australia and used to have 2 WCH m-bells. The same guy went back a couple of weeks later and filmed the crossing again, both bells had been replaced (not just the dying one) by WCH e-bells.

The crossing on GSV. Pine Rd, Fairfield https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-33.868 ... 312!8i6656

The first video with the m-bells. The healthy bell only rings until the gates have lowered and the dying one is meant to ring until the gates begin to rise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yo6N9iXD5o

The second video. The bell operation is the same just with WCH e-bells now, for some reason they slowed the ring rate. It seems a waste to replace the healthy m-bell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DS39bePEwQ

It's a lot like that crossing in Little River with one WCH Mechanical Bell and one Safetran E-Bell. For some reason, one of the WCH bells were replaced with the Safetran E-Bell, but not the other one for some reason.

What perfect timing!

There's a Westinghouse Hybrid Bell at the level crossing next to Royal Park station that is a little hit and miss:

TrickyMario7654 wrote:It's a lot like that crossing in Little River with one WCH Mechanical Bell and one Safetran E-Bell. For some reason, one of the WCH bells were replaced with the Safetran E-Bell, but not the other one for some reason.

Sadly, the WCH Mechanical Bell was replaced about a month ago. In fact, the whole Geelong line is now all Safetran (Siemens) Type 3 E-Bells

chris96 wrote:Sadly, the WCH Mechanical Bell was replaced about a month ago. In fact, the whole Geelong line is now all Safetran (Siemens) Type 3 E-Bells

Honestly, why would someone replace bells that work perfectly fine? They've already replaced the Safetran bell at Ripponlea. As far as I know, the teardrop is still at Ivanhoe as the crossing made the news a few nights ago when someone's car got hit by a train. I saw the teardrop bell onscreen when they were interviewing someone.

TrickyMario7654 wrote: As far as I know, the teardrop is still at Ivanhoe as the crossing made the news a few nights ago when someone's car got hit by a train. I saw the teardrop bell onscreen when they were interviewing someone.

Well now that that's happened, you can bet it'll be gone soon (when they do a "safety upgrade" of the crossing). Maybe one of us should call Metro and get dibs on it for when it's removed!

chris96 wrote:

TrickyMario7654 wrote: As far as I know, the teardrop is still at Ivanhoe as the crossing made the news a few nights ago when someone's car got hit by a train. I saw the teardrop bell onscreen when they were interviewing someone.

Well now that that's happened, you can be it'll be gone soon (when they do a "safety upgrade" of the crossing). Maybe one of us should call Metro and get dibs on it for when it's removed!

I wouldn't be surprised if you did a R.I.P Teardrop bell video (much like the one you did on the Safetran bell).

chris96 wrote:Sadly, the WCH Mechanical Bell was replaced about a month ago. In fact, the whole Geelong line is now all Safetran (Siemens) Type 3 E-Bells

I found this video of the Little River crossing when it had two WCH bells.