I actually live in Boston & go over this crossing numerous times in a week, commuting to work or going to other parts of the town. It’s now called Spalding rd & it certainly looks different now as all the open land around the crossing has trees lining the road & what was all warehouses to the right is now a huge housing development, you certainly wouldn’t be able to get shots of the train curving around the track now. Swineshead Br and Hubberts Br haven’t changed at all. The ‘steel’ as locals call the train still run & it usually stops all the traffic across 2 crossings, West St & Broadfield Lane as it reverses into the sidings, which can take 10 - 15 mins, normally about 3 in the afternoon when most of the town are doing the ‘school run’😉
The level crossing at Swineshead Bridge HAS changed - it no longer has the 1970s "penguin" barrier machines shown in this video (replaced in 2019) and now has E2S alarms rather than those rather nice-sounding yodalarms. Every single one of the level crossings in this video have also had their incandescent halogen lights replaced by LEDs.
I actually live in Boston & go over this crossing numerous times in a week, commuting to work or going to other parts of the town. It’s now called Spalding rd & it certainly looks different now as all the open land around the crossing has trees lining the road & what was all warehouses to the right is now a huge housing development, you certainly wouldn’t be able to get shots of the train curving around the track now. Swineshead Br and Hubberts Br haven’t changed at all. The ‘steel’ as locals call the train still run & it usually stops all the traffic across 2 crossings, West St & Broadfield Lane as it reverses into the sidings, which can take 10 - 15 mins, normally about 3 in the afternoon when most of the town are doing the ‘school run’😉
The level crossing at Swineshead Bridge HAS changed - it no longer has the 1970s "penguin" barrier machines shown in this video (replaced in 2019) and now has E2S alarms rather than those rather nice-sounding yodalarms. Every single one of the level crossings in this video have also had their incandescent halogen lights replaced by LEDs.