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A late-afternoon at the longest level crossing in the UK - Helpston Level Crossing, Cambridgeshire
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Date filmed: 24/02/2023
Video filmed between 16:28 and 17:21
Route(s): East Coast Main Line (ECML) / Birmingham to Peterborough Line
- Between Peterborough and Grantham / Stamford Stations
Things to look out for:
Full LNER "Oxblood" Intercity 225 set (9:59)
How NOT to use a level crossing (14:27)
Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barriers crossing (MCB)
Here's a selection of footage filmed within about fifty minutes or so at this very busy level crossing on the East Coast Main Line. Measuring in at approximately 230ft (70 metres) in length, it is the longest level crossing in the UK from end to end, and it has a total of six tracks. It's one of only four public highway level crossings in the country to have this many tracks, three of which are within a few miles on this stretch of the East Coast Main Line! It takes a considerable amount of time to cross it on foot, and here you've also got the unusual sight of the operating signal box being within the level crossing itself. Originally, it was two separate manually-gated level crossings before being merged into one long crossing at some point. There are four loud alarms here, and there is a time gap of a few seconds separating each pair of barriers lowering (this is now longer than it previously was), though the operator is on hand to delay the lowering if someone needs to finish crossing.
Eight separate lowerings and seventeen different trains are featured throughout this video taken during the late afternoon at around sunset, so as the video goes on, you can see trains shooting past in all the pretty ambient colours that come with it. An "Intercity 225" set, a light locomotive, and a freight train from Ely are seen mixed in with the usual traffic on the East Coast Main Line, as well as the hourly services towards Stamford and Leicester for Birmingham. In the final lowering, quite a questionable bit of driving is seen, as a black Range Rover can be seen overtaking a waiting vehicle (over double solid white lines which prohibit overtaking) and impatiently speeding off. This thankfully didn't delay any barriers lowering or trains being cleared through, but it still crossed the double solid white lines...
Location: B1443 Glinton Road, Helpston
Trains featured:
Lowering 1 (0:00):
1) Class 801 (LNER Azuma) - 1:15
Leeds ➡ London Kings Cross
2) Class 66 light locomotive (GBRf) - 1:38
Ketton Ward Siding GBRf ➡ Peterborough Maintenance Shed GBRf
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Lowering 2 (2:05):
1) Class 802 (Hull Trains 'Paragon') - 3:25
London Kings Cross ➡ Beverley
2) Class 158 (East Midlands Railway - Regional) - 3:48
Norwich ➡ Liverpool Lime Street
3) Class 801 (LNER Azuma) - 4:08
Edinburgh Waverley ➡ London Kings Cross
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Lowering 3 (4:34):
1) Class 800 (LNER Azuma) - 5:35
London Kings Cross ➡ Aberdeen
2) 2 Class 802s (Hull Trains 'Paragon') - 5:58
Hull Paragon Interchange ➡ London Kings Cross
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Lowering 4 (6:21):
Class 801 (LNER Azuma) - 7:25
Edinburgh Waverley ➡ London Kings Cross
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Lowering 5 (8:01):
1) 2 Class 801s (LNER Azuma) - 8:55
Leeds ➡ London Kings Cross
2) Class 170 (Cross Country) - 9:22
Cambridge ➡ Birmingham New Street
3) Class 180 (Grand Central) - 9:45
Bradford Interchange ➡ London Kings Cross
4) Class 91 & Mk.4 Driving Van Trailer "Intercity 225" set (LNER) - 9:59
London Kings Cross ➡ Leeds
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Lowering 6 (10:24):
1) Class 800 (LNER Azuma) - 11:28
London Kings Cross ➡ Lincoln Central
2) Class 170 (Cross Country) - 11:50
Birmingham New Street ➡ Cambridge
3) Class 66 (DB Cargo UK) - 12:20
Ely MLF Papworth Sidings ➡ Toton North Yard
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Lowering 7 (12:52):
Class 800 (LNER Azuma) - 14:05
London Kings Cross ➡ Middlesbrough
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Lowering 8 (14:27):
Class 801 (LNER Azuma) - 15:23
York ➡ London Kings Cross
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Excellent video and Crossing 👍
Thank you!
Oh there are 4 6 track crossings in the UK. Helpston, Maxey, Exeter Redcow. I thought Woodcroft had 5 tracks tbh
Great video as always
Thanks again!
Great video!
Thanks!
Nice video!
Thanks! 👍😁
That alarm only got fixed like a year ago, and it's already on its way out again...
Excellent Videos of this really nice long crossing!👍🏻👍🏻 Love coming here! Looks like 1 of the barriers is missing it’s cable!
Thank you very much! It's definitely one of my top favourites. Yes that barrier chord is missing. Ironically the second time in two visits here that there was one snapped off...
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings Ok👍🏻
It's weird seeing the extra-long time between the first and second sets of gates lowering.
Is it possible to be stuck in that "island" in the middle? There's crossings in Japan that have this sort of arrangement, and they have pavement markings, etc., to show "safe zone if gates are down".
That's an interesting concept, though it's not the practice here. The whole crossing needs to be clear.
@@SouthEastLevelCrossings I went and looked at the video (look up "the worst railway crossing in Japan") and I'm misremembering. The large areas that would be safe from trains actually have orange and white hazard markings and massive "DO NOT STOP" text. It might be like that on foot crossings (certainly there's one on the Tyne & Wear Metro/Blythe line where it's two separate foot crossings with a perpendicular section that's fenced from the tracks on both sides in between). I'm surprised this whole crossing isn't yellow-hatched actually.
Amazing Video 🤩
Thanks 😁
Ever since Not Just Bikes on RUclips dropped a recent video about them, the dangerous entitlement of SUV drivers like in Lowering 8 is getting a bigger spotlight.
This is my personal opinion, but the only reason I think most people need a vehicle that big is to haul their overinflated ego around.
100% agree there.
Great video! Looks like the gate mechs were recently replaced, I remember the previous ones were looking very worn-out. Kinda surprised one's already missing the tension cable despite how new they appear to be.
Also seen some people driving around people waiting (and usually the lowered gate arms) at crossings, even though they're usually no passing zones with double yellow lines, in order to beat the train a couple times before.
Thank you!
The barriers were replaced throughout 2020. This was the second time a tension chord has gone missing from one of them that I know of.
I have seen impatience like that before (overtaking on double solid white lines - overtaking prohibited), and ironically caught something similar more recently too.
They were replaced during lockdown.
Newer alarm sounds a bit skippy
Sounds like it's on its way out again...
Nice and wow! I see misuse?
Numbers on the LNER trains: 1.class 801 train: 108 (Same on the back of the train) 2. Numbers on the class 802 train: 204 (same on the back of the train 3:33) 3. Numbers on the class 801 train: 104 (same on the back of the train) 4.class 800 train: 102 (same on the back of the train) 5. Class 801 train: 201 (same on the back of the train) 6. 2 Class 801: 116 + 117 (same on the back of the train 9:13) 7. Class 91 and DVT class 82 train: 109 + 221 (same on the back of the train 10:09) 8. Class 800 train: 128 (same on the back of the train) 9. Class 800 train: 027 (same on the back of the train 14:12) 10. Class 801 train: 105 (same on the back of the train)
Numbers on the GBRF and DB train: 1.class 66 train: 767 2. Numbers on the class 66: 170
Numbers on the class 158 train: 799 (Same on the back of the train 4:13)
Numbers on the class 802s train: 304+ 01(Same on the back of the train)
Numbers on the class 170 train: 398
Is Helpston or Maxey longer?
Quite close but I think Helpston is a little longer.