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Crewkerne Gates crossing to be improved
 
Crewkerne Gates crossing to be improved
Posted by bradshaw at 22:07, 26th December 2025
 
Report of plans to widen the crossing appear in Somerset Live

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-level-crossing-could-widened-10720337

this photo shows the manual gates in operation and dates to between May 1967, the singling of the line and November 1967 when the AHB was introduced. The diagram for the 6 lever ground frame is part of my local collection.

 
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