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CTV News
12-08-2025
- General
- CTV News
Rail repairs caused brief headache for morning commuters
London city staff say emergency rail crossing repairs were completed sooner than expected Monday. Crews had shut down Veterans Memorial Parkway Monday morning between Clark Road and Oxford Street. It was supposed to last until 3 p.m., but they say traffic was back moving before 11a.m. No one from the city or CN Rail has commented on why the urgent repairs were necessary.
CTV News
23-07-2025
- General
- CTV News
St. Thomas rail crossing gets much needed repairs
The First Avenue rail crossing south of Edward Street in St. Thomas was seen being repaired on July 23, 2025. (Bryan Bicknell/CTV News London) A smooth ride for drivers in St. Thomas, as a bumpy rail crossing gets long awaited repairs. Work took place Wednesday on the First Avenue rail crossing south of Edward Street. A gap has been filled in and paved over with new asphalt. The work follows intervention from Mayor Joe Preston, who clarified in a letter to residents that road work could not be done until CN rail provided flagging support for the active rail line. 'Let's clear the tracks on this one; maintaining the rail crossing is a shared responsibility. CN Rail is responsible for everything within the rail line itself, while the City maintains the roadway surrounding the tracks. In order to complete the necessary repairs, both parties need to work together,' said Preston in his letter to the community. Work was expected to be complete by the end of the day Wednesday.
CTV News
25-06-2025
- Automotive
- CTV News
Collision between train and commercial vehicle in northern Ontario
Railroad crossing on Highway 560 north of Ostrom in northern Ontario. August 2024 (Google) A collision between a train and a commercial vehicle at a rail crossing on Highway 560 south of Gogama in northern Ontario closed the road Wednesday morning. 'There are no injuries or derailment,' Ontario Provincial Police said in a social media post at 8:40a .m. 'A train stop order is in place.' The highway -- which is halfway between Sudbury and Timmins -- is closed between Highway 144 and Highway 560A. There is no estimated reopening time or word on if anyone was injured in the crash. is following this breaking news story and will update the above article as new information becomes available.
BBC News
05-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Shropshire rail crossing safety plan welcomed
Network Rail's decision to improve safety at a rail crossing near the England-Wales border has been welcomed by North Shropshire's MP and a couple who live and Ann Edwards live near the viaduct south of Chirk and said a nearby pedestrian crossing over the line was often busy with Rail described the crossing as "a hot spot for trespassing" and said it had recorded numerous incidents of people spending too long getting from one side to the plans to install a set of warning lights at the crossing in December. Network Rail carried out a study between November and April, which recorded 13 incidents where people spent too long involved a "large group of 36 children and three adults", when one of the adults stepped off the crossing and stayed there for more than two minutes. On other occasions, people stopped to talk on their phones and one person was seen standing on the crossing for 17 at the site is one of the reasons it has decided to object to putting extra trains on the line for a direct service between Wrexham, Shropshire and London. Mrs Edwards believed lights "would be a benefit", but said "it comes down to the person's own common sense.""If you don't come and stand and listen and look both ways, well you're daft aren't you?"Mr Edwards agreed and said the crossing, between Gobowen in Shropshire and Chirk in Wrexham county, regularly saw groups of walkers crossing it, sometimes as many as 20 at a Rail has said plans to increase the number of trains on the line, to create a direct service between Wrexham and London, would create a situation which was "not tolerable".Helen Morgan, the Liberal Democrat MP for North Shropshire, had called for safety measures to be installed and said: "If that crossing was in Birmingham, something would have been done about it". Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
CBC
29-05-2025
- General
- CBC
Whitehorse eyes fix for derelict train tracks cited as safety hazard
A Whitehorse city councillor says it's time, after decades of waiting for trains to return to the Yukon capital, to do something about rail crossings on downtown streets. Coun. Dan Boyd says he's gotten complaints from cyclists and others about the tracks that cross 4th Avenue near Robert Service Way. "I'd want to be very careful crossing that with a motorbike or bicycle or even a small vehicle," he said. Mobility advocate Darryl Tait, who uses a wheelchair, said the crossing is a hazard. He said wheelchair users effectively have to pop a wheelie to get over the rails. "Falling into the crack at any kind of momentum could cause you to grab the front caster wheel and they'll just like eject out of the front of your chair," he said. The tracks are part of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway, which hasn't run revenue service into downtown Whitehorse since the early 1980s. Despite occasional rumblings that the railway might try to restart service, Boyd said there's no point waiting any longer, especially because tracks south of downtown were buried by repeated mudslides on the clay cliffs. Boyd said city crews have already done some work to patch up the 4th Avenue crossing, but called for a permanent fix. The tracks also intersect 2nd Avenue, but there's no crosswalk there. "The long term solution I think is just to put the road through properly and deal with the right of way of the railroad tracks later, if it comes to be that for some reason the train is going to run into downtown Whitehorse again sometime in the future," Boyd said.
