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« on: January 25, 2024, 07:28:30 »

and presumably Reading to Guilford, if they are closing the station level crossing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68073195

Don't understand the two level crossings at Wokingham station, or Star Lane. Not sure the second image has any direct relevance to the story headline.
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2024, 10:01:18 »

and presumably Reading to Guilford, if they are closing the station level crossing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68073195

Don't understand the two level crossings at Wokingham station, or Star Lane. Not sure the second image has any direct relevance to the story headline.

The second picture is lifted from NR» (Network Rail - home page)'s web page on the Feltham and Wokingham Resignalling project, and the area it shows was done in phase 1. So it is relevant to the reason for the closures and bustitutes.

Quite what original text was mangled so as to double the number of crossings is not at all clear. And it does not help to talk about closing a level crossing and give two different date ranges (for the station one). The road at the crossing is indeed closing this weekend, but the trains keep running for another two weeks before the railway closes as well for nine days. It's easy to get confused if those two types of closure are not distinguished clearly.

I guess they are removing the old crossing in its entirety to build a new one, within the time available between trains, so it takes a long time. But it's hard to see that's not possible within the same nine days as all the signals per se. Curing time for concrete plinths?

PS: the main thread for this resignalling is on the SWR» (South Western Railway - about) board.
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« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2024, 11:49:30 »

My understanding is Wokingham box controls(ed) two level crossings - one immediately by the station and one further away via CCTV (Closed Circuit Tele Vision). So perhaps the number reflects the numbers that are controlled by the signaling boxes being lost rather than their specific locations

Though given these are by the station and Star Lane - perhaps someone has confused the number of carriageways/track crossed to the number of level crossings.
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