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dave55uk
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Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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Location: UK
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 Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 7:16 am Post subject: Flat Crossing |
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Used : UK (any others?)
Definition : Where two seperate lines cross on same level (on the flat) - an example in UK being Newark where the Nottingham-Lincoln line crosses the ECML. |
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Statkowski
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Location: Cherry Tree, Pa., U.S.A.
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| Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 9:59 am Post subject: Flat Crossing |
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Used: USA, Canada
Known as a Crossing at Grade (not to be confused with a Grade Crossing, which is where a road crosses the tracks). May or may not have signal protection, depending on the traffic and/or railroad. |
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Atlanta
Joined: 28 Mar 2021
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Location: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Used at Luebeck, Schleswig–Holstein, Germany until around 1910 when the railway tracks had been removed from street level crossing.
The 1100 mm narrow gauge electric Tram crossed the 3 in 1435 mm of standard gauge railway tracks onto a level street crossing in angle of 90°, the frog of one left hand turnout is in midqdle the □ of qthe Tram/Railway Flat Crossing.
Historical photo with permission of the town library of Luebeck
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Take a ride on L.T.E. = Lübeck Travemünder Eisenbahn (Luebeck Travemouth Railway)
Fictional Prussian Railway in H0 & H0n30 (H0e) of 3.5 mm Scale in the year of 1908. |
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