Just found this link on another group.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sh ... e-31694929
Dave
not sure what the rules are here, but wouldn't it have been more reassuring if one of the train crew had walked ahead and physically held up traffic, thus reinforcing the message of the 'wig-wags'?
I'm unsure of the actual permitted duties of traincrew these days (which might in any case, vary between different TOCs), but it may well be the case that if such action was take place, the driver may be the only person allowed to walk to the crossing in these days when duties of guards/conductors/train managers are so greatly (or entirely?) now focussed on matters inside the train, and (except in dire emergency) may not be authorised to be outside their train at other than station platforms.colin1501 wrote:Following from Mike's point about people being worried by a train passing with the barriers up - not sure what the rules are here, but wouldn't it have been more reassuring if one of the train crew had walked ahead and physically held up traffic, thus reinforcing the message of the 'wig-wags'?
Colin
Mike Hodgson wrote:.............. the average motorist doesn't think they are compulsory stop signals (whereas they would understand an ordinary road traffic light). He thinks that flashing lights are just a hazard warning (much the same as yellow a flashing light on a truck or a blue get-out-of-my-way light on an ambulance) and they mean the barriers are about to come down. It is the barrier itself that they understand as the stop signal. Such niceties as applicability to the emergency services just don't come into it.
Chris L wrote:My understanding is that railway personnel are not normally legally allowed to direct road traffic by use of handsignals etc. - only Police and similar Road Traffic enforcement officers are so authorised.
Chris.
StevieG wrote:I'm unsure of the actual permitted duties of traincrew these days (which might in any case, vary between different TOCs), but it may well be the case that if such action was take place, the driver may be the only person allowed to walk to the crossing in these days when duties of guards/conductors/train managers are so greatly (or entirely?) now focussed on matters inside the train, and (except in dire emergency) may not be authorised to be outside their train at other than station platforms.
Police are not permitted to overrule level crossing signals.
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