Stowmarket (Regent Street) Level Crossing, Suffolk

Date filmed: 13/03/2023
Videos filmed between 13:50 and 14:21
Route: Great Eastern Main Line (GEML)
- Stowmarket is the closest station
Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barriers crossing with CCTV (MCB-CCTV)
Location: Crown Street / Cardinalls Road, Stowmarket
Trains featured:
Class 745 006 (Greater Anglia) - 0:00
1P28 London Liverpool Street ➡ Norwich
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Lowering 1 (0:36):
1) Class 745 008 (Greater Anglia) - 1:55
1P41 Norwich ➡ London Liverpool Street
2) Class 66 735 "Peterborough United" (GBRf) - 2:20
4M33 Felixstowe North GBRf ➡ Hams Hall GBRf
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Lowering 2 (3:04):
Class 755 329 (Greater Anglia) - 4:15
2W17 Cambridge ➡ Ipswich
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Lowering 3 (4:40)
Class 755 332 (Greater Anglia) - 5:12
2E78 Ipswich ➡ Peterborough
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Lowering 4 (5:35):
Class 745 004 (Greater Anglia) - 6:26
1P30 London Liverpool Street ➡ Norwich
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Lowering 5 (6:51):
Class 66 086 (DB Cargo UK) - 7:28
6L42 Mountsorrel Sidings ➡ Barham
A mixture of freight and passenger services filmed within the space of around half an hour or so are seen passing by this level crossing, at various speeds, located in a residential part of the market town of Stowmarket in Suffolk. The alarms at this level crossing are fairly new, and are very loud given the fact that there is a number of houses close to this level crossing in a fairly quiet area, their newness much to the contrast of the barriers here which are in quite a tired state and have seen better days. All four barriers at this crossing are actually right-hand (exit-side) barriers, as two are on back to front. A highlight catch, in my opinion, was that in lowering number four, filmed from the small road bridge over the River Gipping, of a 100mph Class 745 intercity service flying through Stowmarket and sounding really quite cool (for a newer train) at speed, its strange horn heard in the distance beforehand. Various different shots can be had around this level crossing around 0.2 miles from the railway station. The pub over the small bridge from the crossing has had its name long before the popular series came about.
Once more on behalf of a number the videos I filmed on this date, apologies about the wind that was ever present at the time of my visit. Due to a rather unfortunate co-incidence it was quite a bit too windy for the ideal weather for filming on this day.
Train details sourced from:
Real Time Trains: www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sear...
Open Train Times: www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Traksy: traksy.uk/live
Thanks for watching!

[@among_usfan_oh_lol]

Nice!

[@NWLevelCrossings]

Excellent Videos!👍🏻👍🏻

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you! 👍

[@NorthWestLevelCrossingsChannel]

Excellent video and Crossing 👍

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you very much!

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

Yet ANOTHER new alarm! Plus, that blue bag freaked me out for a second as I thought it was a person! Me and my silly mind...

[@JPLCUK]

Nice video👍 look at the state of them barriers there all taped up and everything

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks! Yeah I know. It's the same at the other one in Stowmarket.

[@SouthWestCrossingsUK]

Strange how the top of the skirt doesn't fold in completely, it kind of just sticks out.

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

It is a bit odd tbh

[@freebrickproductions]

Great video! Wonder what those things on the left in the first shot are?

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks! I believe they might be telephones or something for the aid of trackside workers ready to be comissioned.

[@WelshTrainspottingYT]

Looks like one of the barriers have been installed the wrong way lol

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

They've been like that for years. The barrier arms were installed around 2009, but the barrier boxes date back to the 80's.

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Two are on the wrong way around. They've used four right-hand barriers here (barriers that go on the exit-side of the crossing)

[@TrainspottingTrini]

What was that thing in a blue bag at the start?

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

I believe it might be something new for trackside workers (maybe telephones to contact the signal boxes)