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Unusual 'On-Request' Level Crossing near Basildon: Gardners Level Crossing, Essex

Date filmed: 10/10/2023 Videos filmed between 15:14 and 15:41 Route: London, Tilbury & Southend Railway (Tilbury Loop) Pitsea is the closest station Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barrier crossing Occupier-Controlled (MCB-OC) Location: 51.552681, 0.476087 Video guide: Intro - 0:00 - Lowering 1 - 0:52 - Request to raise (1) - 1:15 - Lowering 2 - 2:40 - Train 1: 357 205 & 357 313 (c2c) - 3:12 2D57 Southend Central ➡ London Fenchurch Street | On-time - Lowering 3 - 3:36 - Train 2: 357 028 (c2c) - 4:10 2D40 London Fenchurch Street ➡ Southend Central | 2 minutes late - Request to raise (2) - 4:28 - Lowering 4 - 5:25 This level crossing just beside the A13 south of Basildon is one of only a handful of 'On-Call' occupier-controlled level crossings dotted around the country, usually found in places with very little usage from any traffic other than trains or on the access to areas such as farmland where a 'user-worked' crossing isn't deemed suitable. As the barriers spend most of their time lowered, the lights extinguish when the barriers are down and stay turned off until they lower again to avoid unnecessary sky-high electricity costs. Pressing one of the 'wait' modules (practically the same that you'd find on a signalled pedestrian crossing over a busy road here) alerts the signaller that a user wishes to cross, and if there are no trains due, the 'Wait' sign extinguishes and the barriers are raised upon their response. Telephones are provided here to contact the signaller if the barriers aren't raised after at least a few minutes without a train in sight. Once raised, after a few minutes has passed (presuming a train doesn't start approaching in that time), the amber lights come on and the barriers are lowered again, and the lights turn off ready to re-start the sequence on the next request. Additional signage has been provided to instruct users to stop when the barriers are down as to avoid the confusion of the lights being out, most likely. There never used to be this timer here, after which the barriers would automatically lower themselves once elapsed, and the barriers would stay raised until a few minutes before a train passed and the crossing was lowered either manually or by its 'Auto Lower' function which lowers it when a train is approaching the last green signals before it. Because of this timer, I managed to film the crossing lower four times despite only two trains passing, as additional farm traffic requested raises in the time I was here (as well as the fact I needed to cross back over too!). The road here is narrow to the point which even these full-road-width barriers don't need supporter arms. Good luck trying to hear the alarms here, though, as the A13's (East London to Southend via Tilbury arterial route) traffic noise almost completely drowns them out unless you're stood right underneath them, and even the barriers make more noise than they do - they really could do with being at least a bit louder! The road beyond here leads to little other than a large farm, possibly explaining the use of this configuration here, though you'd only need to look at the other nearby level crossing at Vange, also beside the A13 and leading to not very much, to have questions raised as to why they're not both typical full-barrier crossings. Indeed, out of the two in my experience during these visits on this date, this one actually saw more traffic wanting to cross the railway here. Enjoy! Train details sourced from: Real Time Trains: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sear... Open Train Times: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps Traksy: https://traksy.uk/live Filmed on: Panasonic HC-VX1 in 4K 25fps Thanks for watching!