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Wooralla Dr Level Crossing, Mount Eliza - Mornington Railway

This is the Wooralla drive level crossing in Mount Eliza, on the Mornington Heritage Railway, with footage I took in July and August 2017, and May 2018. This crossing has: A McKenzie & Holland Teardrop bell A Westinghouse cross-arm on the southern side and a McKenzie & Holland cross-arm on the northern side Unmarked Westinghouse lights on all the crossing, except for the southern signal which has three unmarked Westinghouse lights and one marked Westinghouse light McKenzie & Holland bases When I filmed this crossing and Bungower road, neither were automated. As a result, whenever a train came, the crossing had to be activated manually at the relay case. Sometimes, there was a volunteer stationed at the crossing (who you can see in the video), who would then activate the lights and bell when the train approached, but for most of the time, a member of the crew would have to get off the train to activate the crossing. This required the train to stop before and after the crossing to allow the crew member to safely get on and off the train. Good news is this crossing has now been automated, so no manual activation of the crossing is needed There are no boom gates installed at this crossing (or at Bungower road, for that matter) and cars regularly skip through the intersection when the crossing activates, as you can see in the video. This makes the crossing very dangerous. The Mornington Railway is actively approaching the government to get funding to install boom gates at this crossing and Bungower road before a serious accident happens. One of the time's I filmed this crossing was on the special event 'Teddy's Day Out' on July 9th 2017. You can see Teddy in the front break-van of the train waving to everyone in the third bit of tripod footage. One of the other times I filmed it, in May 2018, steam locomotive K163 was out of service, due to unexpected repairs, so diesel locomotive T411 had to be used instead. This crossing used to have two yellow warnings signs with illustrations of crossing signals on the southern side of the crossing, but they have since been removed or stolen