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Is there any other information you’d like including in future posts?

It’s a user worked crossing leading to a farm rather than a through road. It does get reported and it used to be a common occurrence that trains would stop and close them.

That’s correct

Sadly an incident a martins lane crossing has been years in the making. The gates are forever being left open. It’s about time they removed it all together.

Used to happen all the time, especially if the bulb in the pa button was very dim or the sun was shining on it: The yellow button would be pressed and turn on the PA, you’d have to press it again to turn off the PA. The white button was just a beeper to contact the driver.

They went to Allerton after that one was installed, ending the cushty number.

They’re supposed to be checked on a prep, but given how dirty some are it’s clear that they aren’t.

I will be interested to know what the report says about that last sentence. In my opinion training quality has certainly diminished in the last decade.

I thought bamber bridge controlled the crossings and give release to Preston to clear the signals.

Juding by the pictures it’s hoghton. Mintholme is a cctv crossing and has full barriers.

Through the train, there’s no reason to go outside there.

It was a signalled move onto a single line. Was 2 158’s, when he changed ends the cab was ahead of the signal. The northern report mentions reading through to the single on the up L&Y.

It wasn’t widely known about, even within the railway. Had it not stopped, it would have been all over the news.

Just out of interest have you been on any modern stock built in the last decade?

Given the train involved is part of the 80x fleet I’d take aws fault with a pinch of salt. They have been plagued with faults ever since introduction. Mainly because far too much information is presented to the driver as fault, that is really just meant for maintenance teams. Happy to be...