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level crossing

Brit a point at which a railway and a road cross, esp one with barriers that close the road when a train is scheduled to pass
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The Andrews Labor Government is getting on with vital upgrades to the Cranbourne line, with works to remove the remaining level crossings and duplicate track starting next year.
Australia : Upgrading The Cranbourne Line To Run More Services
Serpentine Avenue, Sydney Parade and Lansdowne Road level crossings are also regularly struck.
Warning over risk-taking at railway level crossings
Level crossing route asset manager at Network Rail, Mark Brunnen, said: "These cameras are a proven deterrent to improve safety and discourage motorists from taking unnecessary risks when crossing the railway.
Level crossings set to get traffic cameras
The Level Crossing Gatemen will be subjected to tests on their working knowledge.
ECoR orders safety audit of all level crossings in Odisha, Andhra and Chhattisgarh
He said that level crossings were responsibility of district government and the Punjab government, adding that various requisitions had been sent to quarters concerned for the upgradation of level crossings.
'45 unmanned level crossings upgraded'
A spokesman said: "At around 11.56am on Friday, August 17, a passenger train passed over a user-worked level crossing, near Bagillt, North Wales, shortly after a user with a heavy goods vehicle had completed using the crossing.
Train and lorry in near miss at level crossing
Earlier this month, a bus driver who jumped level crossing warning lights at Gaerwen received a 26 weeks suspended jail term from JPs who warned his actions were "potentially catastrophic".
RED ALERT
"There are no excuses for attempting to use level crossing when the lowering sequence is active -- it's not just potential criminal proceedings that you're risking, it's also your life."
How NOT to use a level crossing - incredible video released; Eighty six incidents were recorded at level crossings in Dorset in the last year
To a question, he said that Punjab government had released Rs 610 million and Pakistan Railways upgraded 75 level crossings.
KPK govt to upgrade unmanned railway crossings at cost of Rs 87 million
Still from Network Rail video showing the dangers of level crossing
Watch the heart-stopping moments people dice with death crossing railway tracks; Network Rail's video showing the dangers of taking risks on level crossings will make your stomach knot
The worrying trend comes as a quarter of UK adults admit they don't know the guidance around how to use a level crossing safely.
Level crossing madness
The official claimed the level crossing was being used only by sugar mills and was monitored by Dera Nawab Sahib railway permanent way inspector.
Man killed in tractor-train collision

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