Level Crossing, Waterloo Corner SA, Australia.
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2019
- The first activation is shown at 7:50
This is the Heaslip Road level crossing at Waterloo Corner, South Australia. It is located on the ARTC standard gauge line from Adelaide to Crystal Brook and is situated at the boundary of four suburbs, those being Waterloo Corner, Penfield, Edinburgh and Direk. Most likely to overcome this confusion, ARTC list the crossing as being located at Bolivar, which is the name of a nearby passing loop.
I don't know when these signals were installed, but the crossing has a strange mixture of equipment and an even more bizarre history of changes according to google maps. Back in December 2007 the crossing had a Western Cullen Hayes mechanical bell on the southern gated signal which was replaced by the current Safetran Type 3 e-bell some time prior to December 2009 www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7...
Also in December 2007 both gated signals had pair Westinghouse 12 inch LED forward facing lights, while the rear lights were Westinghouse 8 inch LED's. The northern gate-less signal also had a pair of Westinghouse 12 inch LED lights www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7...
By July 2013 both of the gated signals had their 12 inch lights replaced by Westinghouse 8 inch lights with Westinghouse clear LED's, although the northern gate-less signal retained it's 12 inch lights www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7...
By October 2015 the northern gate-less signal also had it's 12 inch lights replaced by a pair of 8 inch Westinghouse lights with Westinghouse clear LED's and a new white strobe light on top of the mast www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7...
The only signal to remain unchanged during this time is the southern gate-less signal which has a pair of Westinghouse 12 inch LED lights (mounted on a McKenzie & Holland bracket), a white strobe and a pair of Westinghouse 8 inch LED side lights www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7...
The southern gated signal has a Westinghouse base while all other signals have Western Cullen Hayes bases. Both gated signals have Western Cullen Hayes gate mechanisms and Western Cullen Hayes LED gate lights, the southern gate lights also have an odd flash pattern. The southern gate had it's original WRRS counterweight arms replaced by newer WCH ones some time between 2013 and 2015, although the WRRS counterweights have been reused.
The train shown in the video is 6MP4 freight from Melbourne to Perth, with locomotives NR16 and NR23. The train was filmed from both sides of the crossing.
Filmed on May 4, 2019.
7:50 1st activation of the railroad crossing
*7:52*
It looks and sounds just like the American railroad crossing.
Nice crossing. Love the unusual strobes and assortment of different lights!
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Great video! Those lights look huge
More Like Small no?
First.
Keep up the awesome work and just love seeing crossing from my home state👍🏻💯
Thanks! More SA crossings to come.
@@McKHAust nice!!
Great Video and crossing, I like the 12 inch lights.
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Great catch & crossing!
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Great . Very odd signal setup. I do kinda like the 12 inch lights on the gateless signal but prefer 8 inch ones . Fast train . Great video and crossing!
Everyone is talking about how weird the crossing looks, but no one is talking about the drivers that stopped at the red light even when the gates weren't down yet and the train was pretty far away
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Freight Train is says too
It looks and sounds exactly like an American railroad crossing. ua-cam.com/video/8CNhwcGbx94/v-deo.html
Freight Train the driver stopped cause the lights were flashing
@@VictorianRailHeritage um...yeah ik that's kinda what I said lol I pointed it out because usually when the lights are on and the gates aren't down yet most people will try and pass and not stop when they just see the light
Jayden Richard the equipment used for level crossings here are imported from the USA
Great video!
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I LOVE THAT CROSSING AND THE SAFETRAN NICE VIDEO
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I was just curious as to what type of railroad signals they used in Australia, but they are pretty much identical to the signals used in the U.S and Canada. As soon as I saw the WCH logo (Western Cullen Hayes) they are made by the same company, and are slightly different for Australia, but pretty much the same world wide.
The lights on this crossing were made in Australia by Westinghouse, but the WCH equipment is imported from the US.
@@McKHAust that is true
I like those large Inverysys/Westinghouse LEDs on the one pole
I find it neat that there was a passenger car at the front of the train, and there was double-stakced containers!
Thanks! The passenger car is for the train crew to sleep in, there would be one crew driving the train and a second crew resting in the car. I think they take turns while the other crew sleeps.
I love the Safetran E-bell!!
Sorry accidentally called wc Hayes it’s westing house led lights
Very interesting seeing some double stack well cars on there... imagine if Australian intermodals were just a little over 3 km long double stacks.
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Them copying TTX
On which side? The side from where it started the activation or the other side?
Nice wc Hayes led lights
It’s good how the railway crossings are there accept for the mechanical bells
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Nice video, thumbs up and subscribed
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@McK&H Aust I would love to know what the white flashing lights atop the level crossing arms mean please ?
I have only seen one and it only flashes when the gates are lowered as far as I know.
Wow that was like the speed of the Amtrak!
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Great video! This is certainly a very odd crossing, its the strangest non metropolitan crossing I have seen. For some reason I remember seeing red crossbucks on streetview.
Thanks! I'm sure the red background crossbucks won't be too far away, a couple of the existing crossbucks are faded.
Very nice location
This Crossing Has Alstom Aurora LED Gate Lights?!
No they’re WCH LED gate lights. Alstom/Aurora LED gate lights are white, and WCH LED gate lights are red.
They sound like an American railroad crossing
Hose Could it really does!
Yeah, they do! Most of the bells here in Aus have been borrowed from the US.
They use same equipments.
I like how they've adopted the use of doublestacks
Australia version of what we know in western United States a Z-train
8:45 aha! Containers loaded on well cars the US of A way.
7:50 epic bells ring
Those light mounts on the side signals really trigger my ocd the one with tge gates*
random but any reason 12in lights never really took off in Australia? (well maybe outside of Queensland lol) they seem super rare compared to 8in's, which are at like every crossing over there
Australia has crossings just like the US except it says railway crossing but still a lot alike
Yes
Nice video! I wonder if the 12 inch lights have been having issues as there have certainly been some changes over the years?
Thanks! It sure is a mystery about the 12 inch lights, specially how they left one pair. You could be right, perhaps the LED's started dying and they already had 8 inch lights in stock.
I love how they incorporated the American style “Intermodal” cars
TTX copycats
Cool
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What's the beacon on top of the pole that flashes at 10:20?
Have you been to leader street level crossing at goodwood
That is one big train
Yes, thanks for watching.
0:01 i have never seen a crossing where the white railway crossing signs dont have the black and white stripes below it
Odd train horn, fast train, perfectly functioning E-bells awesome combo!
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@@McKHAust you're welcome! Seems like They have pretty interesting crossings and sometimes bells up there! The us&s teardrop bells are way better if not the best ones used. Of course I'm from the u.s so I dont really know what bells they use there. But I know they used teardrop bells there. They are AWESOME!!
@Ayden Holton sorry 4 replying so late. I like the sound of Westinghouse bells. They're kinda loud but that's good for railroad crossing because it makes motorists more aware. I saw that teardrop bell get replaced with a e-bell. How disappointing!
What’s with the strobes on the crossings?
How's the weather been there lately? Here it has been actually rather cool and wet (rare for May here) but its supposed to warm up this week.
It's getting cold here but not much rain.
@@McKHAust we are drying out now and starting to get much hotter, headed for 100°F next week. We were only in the 60s here last week
Safetran electronic bells I really popular
Wow the train so long to up the railroad crossing gate
The car at 7:57 and 9:44 actually waited until the gates were fully raised, man he wants to follow the rules. 😂
Nice video, what's your next upload and when is it?
Thank you! Clark Rd, Evanston Gardens, probably towards the end of this week.
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This is not a railway crossing, it's a railroad crossing. A railway crossing is when the train tracks cross each other.
Australia uses different terminology than the States. Railway = railroad. If that’s the case (what you call a railway crossing), then we would call that a level junction.
did they sort out the issue in Melbourne back in 2010 with more than 50 dangerous level crossings?
@@soulsphere9242 so they will go under the road instead?
Those bells sound similar to the bells here in the US
It's the same
Same sound like in the U.S!
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This is a USA bell
The looks like an American railroad sign and sound like it too
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Hold up. 12 inch lights... in australia?
yep Queensland has the most except their incandescent
These e bell sound like America
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We went past this crossing in early 2016 unfortunately there was no train ;(
Yes I got lucky and didn't have to wait long for the train.
That’s nice of ya
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7:51 crossing activates
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At first look I could think it was in America because in qld we have no bells 😭
Yes, this crossing was close to where I used to live when I was in S.A. They do look very similar to the ones used in the USA.
IT TAKES 16 SECONDS AVERAGE FOR THE GATE TO GO DOWN? CUZ IN AMERICA THE AVERAGE FOR A GATE IS 4 SECONDS
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That A Safetran Type 3 or 2 E-bell
Type 3
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It sounds like the American Railroad crossing and it is looks like the American railroad crossing to
Why are most of UA-cam accounts are American! I’m Australian and do you know the Southern Cross? It’s a constellation.
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