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BBC News
14 hours ago
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- 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
7 days ago
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- 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.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Yahoo
One injured after train collides with car crossing rail lines in KC
One person was injured on Saturday after a vehicle crossed rail lines and collided with in a train in Kansas City, police said. An engineer on a Union Pacific Railroad remote controlled train was headed east on the train tracks near 2700 Guinotte Avenue. Officers were summoned to the scene just before 10 p.m. The engineer was standing on the rear platform of the last tanker car on the train at the time, according to Sgt. Philip DiMartino, a spokesman with the Kansas City Police Department. A black Ford transit van southbound on North Prospect drove around the flashing rail crossing arms blocking the train tracks and was hit by the tanker car that the engineer was standing on, DiMartino said. The Ford spun 90 degrees, pinning the engineer between the tanker car and the side of the van. The engineer was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but the driver was not injured, according to DiMartino. This investigation is ongoing.
