I'm amazed that a teardrop bell replaced an e-bell. I also like that the old gatekeeper's house is in good shape. Hopefully, it can be turned into a small museum.
Great video and crossing! Glad someone decided to replace the e-bell there with a re-used Teardrop, I guess due to the historic status of the building next to the crossing.
Brilliant Michael!!!! I love the night shot but my favourite is the one at 8:06. Its crazy but good the teardrop is what replaced the WCH E Bell. Keep up the fantastic work mate!!!
Great video! I’m surprised they decided to replace the WCH-E bell with a McKenzie and Holland teardrop bell! That isn’t something that you would see often. Glad that at least the teardrop bells aren’t going “extinct” any time soon!
Great video Michael, the teardrop bell sounds awesome. It’s amazing that it replaced a Western Cullen Hayes electronic bell! RIP about the sun at 9:01 though.
Thanks Jack! I'm not too worried about the sun in that shot as it's on the boring side of the crossing, thankfully the footage of the teardrop side came out well as that was my main focus of doing the video.
I'm guessing the e-bell died and they had a spare teardrop sitting around so decided to use it. Over the last few years there have been a lot of e-bells getting replaced around the Tamworth and Armidale area, mostly Safetran Type 3 bells being replaced by WCH e-bells. I'm thinking the extreme cold weather could be playing a part in killing off those bells, so maybe that's why they were happy to install a teardrop here?
@@McKHAust Yeah, I guess that's what's been happening. Maybe the teardrop came from Coonabarabran, as I noticed the signals weren't there anymore in Google Maps. Did you film anything else while you were in the area?
@@TrickyMario7654 I noticed the signals were gone from Coonabarabran and it would be nice if that teardrop was reused, but really don't know where this bell came from. Only other crossing I filmed up there was Markham St at Armidale, plus an update video from Werris Creek where the remaining teardrop was replaced by a WCH m-bell. It's not the same teardrop used at Uralla though, sounds different.
@@McKHAust Damn, the other teardrop bell is gone from Werris Creek? Glad to hear another m-bell replaced it at least. Thanks for favouriting some of my pictures on Flickr, BTW. That was the only Comeng set I saw that day, the rest of the Metro trains were HCMTs. :(
Any mechanical bell, let alone a Teardrop bell being used to replace an electronic bell is amazing. I’m guessing that the signal maintainers didn’t have any spare electronic bells so they used a Teardrop bell instead. It would be interesting to know what crossing the Teardrop bell was originally installed at. As always, great video.
Thanks! Goes to show how mechanical bells are still reliable and worth keeping around. Don't know where the bell originally came from, it wasn't from this crossing as the original teardrop was cast iron.
@@TrickyMario7654 according to street view from 2010 the original signals had just 1 teardrop which was cast iron, so this replacement bell came from somewhere else.
Thanks! For this crossing it was pretty easy to know where the train was because it can be tracked through the Anytrip app. Perhaps the axle counters are close to the road to save on cable, and possibly they shared the same cable ducts as the signals?
@@McKHAust Very cool Info thanks! You got some awesome videos on wheat and freight trains passing by at the level crossing and got me thinking, What about freight/grain trains and How do you know when they gonna come? For example, old Junee, Parkes, temora, Wagga all those places. I did mange catch Pacific National number 8104, 8207, 8218 and 8135 passing by at a level crossing (been activated for almost 2 years now). He was stopped at the time before the crossing so I stopped at the crossing and watched it
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I'm amazed that a teardrop bell replaced an e-bell. I also like that the old gatekeeper's house is in good shape. Hopefully, it can be turned into a small museum.
Great video and crossing! Glad someone decided to replace the e-bell there with a re-used Teardrop, I guess due to the historic status of the building next to the crossing.
Excellent video Michael
That's something you don't see happened...EVER! . a Teardrop bell replacing a E-bell. How ironic.
Good video here Michael. :)
Great work there mate love your videos
Love that the gatekeeper's house is still in place. I'm surprised that of all bells a McK&H bell replaced a WCH E Bell.
Brilliant Michael!!!! I love the night shot but my favourite is the one at 8:06. Its crazy but good the teardrop is what replaced the WCH E Bell. Keep up the fantastic work mate!!!
Thanks :)
Very interesting and unique setup
Sure is, thanks :)
Great video! I’m surprised they decided to replace the WCH-E bell with a McKenzie and Holland teardrop bell! That isn’t something that you would see often. Glad that at least the teardrop bells aren’t going “extinct” any time soon!
Great video! I love how the teardrop replaced an e-bell fairly recently! The teardrop sounds awesome!
Thanks! Hopefully more teardrops are used to replace e-bells in the future :)
Great Video! It is great to finally start seeing a mechanical Teardrop Bell replacing an E-Bell these days! I really like the night shots too :)
Thanks :)
Great crossing! Very cool that one of the WCH E-Bells was replaced with a Teardrop bell!
Thanks :)
Great video Michael, the teardrop bell sounds awesome. It’s amazing that it replaced a Western Cullen Hayes electronic bell! RIP about the sun at 9:01 though.
Thanks Jack! I'm not too worried about the sun in that shot as it's on the boring side of the crossing, thankfully the footage of the teardrop side came out well as that was my main focus of doing the video.
Nice Teardrop Bell, Too bad there aren't any in SA besides on a display signal
Thanks!
What on earth made them replace the WCH e-bell with a McK&H Teardrop bell? It’s quite ironic, seeing that the original signals had two teardrop bells.
I'm guessing the e-bell died and they had a spare teardrop sitting around so decided to use it. Over the last few years there have been a lot of e-bells getting replaced around the Tamworth and Armidale area, mostly Safetran Type 3 bells being replaced by WCH e-bells. I'm thinking the extreme cold weather could be playing a part in killing off those bells, so maybe that's why they were happy to install a teardrop here?
@@McKHAust Yeah, I guess that's what's been happening. Maybe the teardrop came from Coonabarabran, as I noticed the signals weren't there anymore in Google Maps.
Did you film anything else while you were in the area?
@@TrickyMario7654 I noticed the signals were gone from Coonabarabran and it would be nice if that teardrop was reused, but really don't know where this bell came from. Only other crossing I filmed up there was Markham St at Armidale, plus an update video from Werris Creek where the remaining teardrop was replaced by a WCH m-bell. It's not the same teardrop used at Uralla though, sounds different.
@@McKHAust Damn, the other teardrop bell is gone from Werris Creek? Glad to hear another m-bell replaced it at least.
Thanks for favouriting some of my pictures on Flickr, BTW. That was the only Comeng set I saw that day, the rest of the Metro trains were HCMTs. :(
Any mechanical bell, let alone a Teardrop bell being used to replace an electronic bell is amazing. I’m guessing that the signal maintainers didn’t have any spare electronic bells so they used a Teardrop bell instead. It would be interesting to know what crossing the Teardrop bell was originally installed at. As always, great video.
Thanks! Goes to show how mechanical bells are still reliable and worth keeping around. Don't know where the bell originally came from, it wasn't from this crossing as the original teardrop was cast iron.
@@McKHAust It would have been hilarious if the replacement teardrop bell turned out to be one of the two from the original signals.
@@TrickyMario7654 according to street view from 2010 the original signals had just 1 teardrop which was cast iron, so this replacement bell came from somewhere else.
@@McKHAust Oh, I see. I guess my memory must have been bad as I haven’t look at the street view of the crossing in a long time.
Awesome video!! I never seen the axle counter so close to the road before. How do you know when a train is gonna be at the certain level crossing?
Thanks! For this crossing it was pretty easy to know where the train was because it can be tracked through the Anytrip app. Perhaps the axle counters are close to the road to save on cable, and possibly they shared the same cable ducts as the signals?
@@McKHAust Very cool Info thanks! You got some awesome videos on wheat and freight trains passing by at the level crossing and got me thinking, What about freight/grain trains and How do you know when they gonna come? For example, old Junee, Parkes, temora, Wagga all those places. I did mange catch Pacific National number 8104, 8207, 8218 and 8135 passing by at a level crossing (been activated for almost 2 years now). He was stopped at the time before the crossing so I stopped at the crossing and watched it