(14-02-2011, 01:40 PM)PJW Wrote:(13-02-2011, 10:53 PM)interesting_signal Wrote:(13-02-2011, 10:24 PM)Peter Wrote: You seem to have mixed up two types of crossing use.....
One aspect that I think you have omitted is anything to do with the fact that the crossing is regularly used by livestock. On this theme, you have said a warning time of 40s without any reasoning. Perhaps think about these two points together and consider what you might provide.
Peter
Ok, I haven't explained it well, but my thinking was that the MSL are good enough for people using the footpath, but the time taken to get livestock etc. across could exceed the 40s warning time, so the signaller should be contacted to ensure sufficient time between trains to get the livestock across.
Let us hope that there were whistle boards and that there would have been audible warning of the train's approach well before becoming visible, but it does beg the question about deaf people- nowdays perhaps there ought to be warning signs to ask users to stop talking on the mobile, turn off the ipod etc.
Also see the news last night about Elsenham - the inquiry has been reopened now that it has emerged that a risk assessment some years prior to those two teenagers deaths apparently recommended the wicket gate be locked during passage of trains and this hadn't been implemented.....
PJW