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by **MarkIV** on Sun Feb 17, 2013 4:18 pm

I saw this video on You-Tube and was curious as to what es does and why it is there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWTTJKSXmXU

by **Steve.S** on Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:42 pm

MarkIV wrote:I saw this video on You-Tube and was curious as to what es does and why it is there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWTTJKSXmXU

Looks like it's used to request the railway dispatcher to open the gates. Here's the Google translation of the video description:

This crossing is located in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, near St. Tönis at the Rhein-Niers railway line. Probably the only barrier call in the area shown with full barriers with electrical Gitterbehang, Scheidt & Bachmann, and each page a telecommunications installation. Instead, like many other call bounds, you must not tell the dispatcher that you desire to or when you are over there arrived. Here just the lever must be pushed, possibly waiting briefly and the barriers open. Only when the next train is coming the barriers are closed again after a short indistinct announcement.

by **coyttl** on Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:50 pm

Yeah -
Usually places like that will leave the gates for roadway in the *down* position - you call (or inform) the dispatcher, and if the tracks are clear, the gates will rise for a set time, before returning to the down position. (In the crossings I've seen when over across the pond, the time was 60 seconds - enough for you to get back into your car or lorry, and cross the tracks. If a train's less than 60 seconds away, you'll have to wait.

:)

by **traffic-light-man** on Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:19 am

In the UK, we have telephones on all train-operated (half or no barriers) level crossings to allow people crossing with long, heavy, dangerous or slow loads to inform and gain information from the railway control centre. It is also provided to allow the public to inform the railway control centre in the event of an emergency (such as a broken down car) or accident on the level crossing.

Control centre operated crossings (full barriers) have CCTV cameras to monior them remotely, so don't need telephones.