Where is the level crossing on airdrie bathgate link?

[AHBD]

Where is the level crossing on airdrie bathgate link(that annoyed the ORR)?

 

[Dfatcontroller]

Where is the level crossing on airdrie bathgate link(that annoyed the ORR)?

There aren't any level crossings on the Airdrie - Bathgate section of route. Only LCs on that line of route between Helensburgh and Edinburgh are 6 crossings between Craigendoran and Cardross and a further one at Bowling.

 

[AHBD]

There aren't any level crossings on the Airdrie - Bathgate section of route. Only LCs on that line of route between Helensburgh and Edinburgh are 6 crossings between Craigendoran and Cardross and a further one at Bowling.

I must have confused it with another Scottish reopening, where a previous level crossing was reinstated to the ORRs annoyance?

 

[Hagbard Celine]

I must have confused it with another Scottish reopening, where a previous level crossing was reinstated to the ORRs annoyance?

Stirling - Alloa?

 

[swt_passenger]

Stirling - Alloa?

That’s the route I would be looking into. I think they had to build a new road rather than the planned reopening of some crossings, but there’s not much about anything specific online.

 

[matchmaker]

That’s the route I would be looking into. I think they had to build a new road rather than the planned reopening of some crossings, but there’s not much about anything specific online.

Several crossings were closed completely, three converted to CCTV and the busiest - in Alloa - was replaced by a new road and overbridge.There are also several UWC. One of the CCTV crossings - at Cambus - was intended to be AHB, but after objections (I'm not sure who from) it was changed to CCTV.

 

[godfreycomplex]

Several crossings were closed completely, three converted to CCTV and the busiest - in Alloa - was replaced by a new road and overbridge.There are also several UWC. One of the CCTV crossings - at Cambus - was intended to be AHB, but after objections (I'm not sure who from) it was changed to CCTV.

That may have been the ORR as no new AHB installations have been permitted for many years

 

[AHBD]

Thanks, that seems the likely candidate but I cant find the original post on here, its sometimes surprisingly hard to find stuff one has seen, using searches ....

 

[Railsigns]

That may have been the ORR as no new AHB installations have been permitted for many years

This is not true.

 

[matchmaker]

Here is a link to the legislation. Schedules 4, 5 and 6 give a list of the crossings and their fate. Crossings

I have a vague recollection that the objections to the AHB crossing at Cambus may have come from residents who were worried about such a "dangerous" type of crossing being installed, but I haven't found anything online to confirm or deny this.

 

[D6130]

I'm open to correction, but I seem to remember that Moss Road crossing (formerly Ardmore West) - between Cardross and Craigendoran - was converted from user-worked gates to AHB-C relatively recently. Perhaps that's the one that the OP was thinking of on the Edinburgh-Helensburgh route?

 

[Scotrail84]

Could it be Cambus level crossing, I seem to remember residents complained that coal trains were making their houses develop some cracking in their walls too.

 

[och aye]

The new Levenmouth railway upset some locals when the previous crossings were permanently closed.

Levenmouth rail link will leave 'bitter legacy' for many after Doubledykes crossing closure

Campaigners claim the £116m rail project is in danger of splitting communities, with access improving in Levenmouth while people in Glenrothes lose out.

www.thecourier.co.uk

The Levenmouth rail link will leave a “bitter legacy” for hundreds of people as Network Rail presses ahead with the removal of a popular level crossing.

Campaigners and politicians claim communities are being set against each other by the decision to close Doubledykes crossing at the western end of the new line.

 

[MadMac]

Could it be Cambus level crossing, I seem to remember residents complained that coal trains were making their houses develop some cracking in their walls too.

One of the issues that arose was that house purchasers had apparently been led to believe that the railway was closed: it wasn’t. It still “technically existed“. NR just started using it again.

 

[och aye]

One of the issues that arose was that house purchasers had apparently been led to believe that the railway was closed: it wasn’t. It still “technically existed“. NR just started using it again.

They should sue the housing developers for false advertising if that's what they were told before purchasing the houses.

 

[matchmaker]

They should sue the housing developers for false advertising if that's what they were told before purchasing the houses.

Might have been Clackmannan. I seem to remember that some homeowners there kicked up a stink when it was announced that the railway was to reopen. Apparently when they bought their houses they failed to notice the mothballed railway at the bottom of their gardens...

 

[Scotrail84]

Might have been Clackmannan. I seem to remember that some homeowners there kicked up a stink when it was announced that the railway was to reopen. Apparently when they bought their houses they failed to notice the mothballed railway at the bottom of their gardens...

Did homeowners on the same line not try and 'reclaim' some land after the Dunfermline to Kincardine section was taken OOU? I heard a funny story of a light engine doing a proving run from a few years ago having to stop short of some how shall we say, 'extended' gardens and some makeshift fencing that the owners had put in themselves to make their gardens bigger. Instructions given to the driver to plough the road as well.

 

[MadMac]

Did homeowners on the same line not try and 'reclaim' some land after the Dunfermline to Kincardine section was taken OOU? I heard a funny story of a light engine doing a proving run from a few years ago having to stop short of some how shall we say, 'extended' gardens and some makeshift fencing that the owners had put in themselves to make their gardens bigger. Instructions given to the driver to plough the road as well.

When I was at Railtrack (mid-90s), my team was asked to go out there and take a look at what state it was in. They came across several instances of ‘extended’ gardens including one with a greenhouse in the middle of the track! As it was put to me by a fairly senior Operations person: “It still technically exists, but it would be a very brave or very foolhardy man who would send a train down there!”

 

[Scotrail84]

When I was at Railtrack (mid-90s), my team was asked to go out there and take a look at what state it was in. They came across several instances of ‘extended’ gardens including one with a greenhouse in the middle of the track! As it was put to me by a fairly senior Operations person: “It still technically exists, but it would be a very brave or very foolhardy man who would send a train down there!”

Traksy showed a test train in one of the signal berths between Dunfermline and Kincardine a few weeks ago but it may not have been accurate of course. it was 3Sxx