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Great video SB, This was a great video and very enjoyable to watch

I rekon Metronet Should not of touched the armadale line like leave it alone cause it's history

Nice noise

how to get the mechanical bells

Thank you for this brilliant video

Very nicely done SB, well put together man. Enjoying these long informative videos especially with all the Portland line crossings as well!

Great work SB! I love the editing!

Great idea to make this vid... pretty soon a lot of them will be gone. You're documenting a slice of history.

Fun fact. When Alice Springs received its first set of traffic lights in late 1984 every junction from then were all Aldridge 12 inch lights up until sometime in 2009. I could speculate that the reason all junctions had 12 inch lights was probably the supply since the town council can just buy 1 type of signal and not worry about size differences. Even the last incandescent signals in Alice Springs and the whole of the Northern Territory were 12 inches. Why they choose 12 inch as the only signal they bought is still a mystery

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I have never actually heard a Mechanical bell in person. I live in Sydney and every crossing I've been to able to see in person have had Electronic Bells. It's a shame that these bells are going extinct. Besides, I'd think that an electronic bell would malfunction a lot more than a mechanical bell. Wouldn't it be easier to just have mechanical ones? Either way it's still a shame to see all these boring 'upgrades' happen to Australia's level crossings. They become so boring and all look the same.

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There is still quite a lot of mechanical bells in WA, espally on all level crossings of metropolitan train lines!

Amazing Work

I've always liked the Westinghouse hybrid bells but most have gone now with only a few on the north east line in Victoria

Sadly the old school mechanical “clang” bells will be a thing of the past. I like the old sound.

5:23 Train in that video would’ve been NP23 from CEN to ARM

I believe Darling St in Tamworth NSW still has mechanical bells as well as Denison St in Tamworth NSW

Excellent video. Enjoyed it immensely. Just a point - Glen Eira Road is pronounced ‘Glen Eye-ra Road’ Not Ear-ra

Terrific video with informative, easy to understand narration. Extra points for the Leslie horns in the compilations.

Incredibly informative.

Metal bell go Ding Ding Ding

Theres a lot mechanical bells in Australia 🇦🇺

Ik what a mechanical bells from werribee and nice video SB perfect

The Intermodal Way crossing has WCH Ebells

15:34 I recorded that level crossing go to my channel and find a video that called: Dandenong level crossing

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_Utterly_ amused that your examples of Americans getting this wrong are places I recognised instantly and go to regularly. Amazingly, the multilane all-way stop at the end of Calaveras in Milpitas works surprisingly well. Drivers tend to be patient and cooperative there-perhaps out of desperation?-unlike everywhere else, and somehow agree on priority. Really, the only issue with railways crossing roundabouts is that it's not amusing _enough._ Could we also, I dunno, ford a canal? Or involve a runway, like in Gibraltar.

I love that the Leader Street railway crossing in South Australia also has a flashing sign that says “Caution more than one train”.

I definitely see what you mean with the roundabouts because they are allways one direction and force traffic to slow down which is good when trains involved

Great camera work, lovely graphics! I'm impressed

You kinda forget another disused roundabout crossing, the Eramosa road/Mooroduc highway roundabout with a disused rail line cutting across it (its on the mornington peninsula, occasionally drive by it every now and again)

They’re purposely building them like this but with trams here in the US.

Nicely researched and presented! Something unusual for a model-railway person to recreate!

3:31 Bright Yellow Traffic Lights Are More Common In The United States (Some Jurisdiction And Most Of Canada Compared To Australia New Zealand And Rest Of The World Uses Black Traffic Lights Like In New York Stat Also The UK And Argentina Has Very Weird Traffic Light Phases. Plus Countries That Drive On The Right Side Of The Road Has Left Turn Protected Signals And Right Turn Protected Signals In Left Side Driving Countries To Prevent Major Car Accidents. But Left Turn Arrow Signals In Left Side Driving Countries And Right Turn Arrow Signals In Right Side Driving Countries Is A Stupid Idea. And Most Traffic Lights In the US Use Span Wire And Some Mast Arm And New Left Turn Signals Have The Flashing Yellow Arrow. Which Means Give Way Or Yield To Oncoming Traffic And Pedestrians And Go When Safe Even Though I Wait For Green Arrow

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Level Crossing Removals Are Also Known As Grade Crossing Eliminations Some Parts Of The World Most Particularly In Argentina United States Australia For Example Most Of Argentina Province Of Buenos Aires State Of Victoria And The Main Line Of The LIRR In The United States In Long Island Had Recently A Level Crossing Removals Throughout This Decade De To High Accidents In Mineola New Hyde Park And Westbury NY To Be Honest Level Crossing Removals Have Been Increasing Around The World And It's Much Safer. I Also Think That Roundabouts She BE Eliminated And Replace Them With Intersections.

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I think I’ve seen only one level crossing go through a roundabout here in the U.S. It was in Florida I believe. I could be remembering completely wrong, though. Another thing is that the U.S. has a lot of crossings that just have the crossbuck and a yield (give way) or stop sign and nothing else.

do the trains clog traffic at the roundabouts? not sure how long the freight trains are in australia, but in my town in america they can take 5+ minutes to pass. there’s a nearby intersection that i think would be a good candidate for a roundabout, except it’s near a track with frequent long freight trains and i think they would block the whole roundabout, even for traffic not crossing the tracks

The Geelong VicRoads was right next to the Fyans St roundabout. Really throwing learners into the deep end

At least three people have been killed at the level crossing at the Lindum Road/Kianawa Road/Sandy Camp Road/ Sibley Road crossing in Queensland you mentioned briefly. I have suggested traffic lights there as the water table is too high for an underpass and it's too built up for an overpass.

Why don’t we talk about why the dot want to get rid of roundabouts in general there the safest, effective and cheapest intersection to make,

1:00 hey that's not Australia... that's in Auckland New Zealand.

the reason why they are adding gates to the passive bells and lights is it allows vlos to run at 160km, thats why its not done on the mildura line and not places that dont see much service like ararat another road that has the slewed road is neerim road and murrmbeena road

Fascinating - I've never considered that there would be roundabout railway crossings. Seems like asking for trouble! Nice to see you are well over 1k subs.

That crossing in Echuca carried the stub branch to the Port of Echuca, this line was disconnected about 10 years ago & most of the line through the roundabout has been lifted, although some rail remains, I can't see it ever seeing a train again.