Margaretting (User-worked) Level Crossing, Essex

Date filmed: 14/05/2020

Route: Great Eastern Main Line
Between Chelmsford and Ingatestone Stations

Location: Parsonage Lane, Margaretting
Trains:
Activation 1 (0:00):
Class 745 (Greater Anglia) - 1:10
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Activation 2 (1:51)
2 Class 321s (Greater Anglia) - 2:51
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3 Class 321s (Greater Anglia) - 3:27

Found at the end of a narrow Parsonage Lane within Margaretting, Essex, on the busy Great Eastern Main Line. There are two Unipart Dorman red and green miniature warning lights at this level crossing that leads to a public footpath, as well as two quiet E2S alarms, each playing a voice message saying "warning, more than one train may be approaching". All pedestrians are allowed to use this crossing to cross the railway, but it's only authorised vehicles that are allowed to cross using the large gates.

Three separate activations are included in this video. The first two happened only around a minute apart, with the third happening rather unexpectedly around a minute after that, which explains why the activation wasn't filmed, and the trio of 321s was solely focused on in that clip. A wide variety of liveries on each individual Class 321 unit can be seen in this video.

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