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A special symbol in the center indicates an electric railroad crossing, cautioning road users about excessive height cargo that may contact the electric wires. In Australia, the crossbuck is a St Andrews Cross as in Europe, but uses words and the same color as the American crossbuck.
A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, [1] as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using an overpass or tunnel.
Gilchrest Road, New York, crossing accident, a similar incident involving a school bus driver attempting to beat a level crossing. 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision, a similar incident involving a school bus driver that was unaware that the bus' rear was positioned in the path of an express train.
Busy crossings in a dense urban area. East Durham grew up along the N.C. Railroad tracks, starting with the Durham Cotton Manufacturing Co. in the 1880s.
Level crossing signals are electronic warning devices for road vehicles at railroad level crossings. Level crossings can be operated in various ways. In some countries such as the UK, the warning devices are more often than not activated by remote control, I.e. an operator pressing buttons. However, the majority of countries have automated systems.
October 7 – Canada – The Dorion level crossing accident: In Dorion, Quebec, a chartered school bus carrying teenage students to a dance stopped at a level crossing while a Canadian National Railway passenger train passed through, but then one or more youths deliberately raised the barrier arm although a freight train approached in the other ...
The unguarded level crossings are used in most locations, they have only crossbucks and sometimes a stop sign added below to indicate that the railroad crossing is unsafely guarded and should have to stop all vehicles when passing the level crossing; in the case if the trains were approaching.
A level junction (or in the United Kingdom a flat crossing) is a railway junction that has a track configuration in which merging or crossing railroad lines provide track connections with each other that require trains to cross over in front of opposing traffic at grade (i.e. on the level).