Worcester (Henwick) Level Crossing, Worcester

Date filmed: 12/10/2021
Videos filmed at: 16:16 | 16:30 | 16:40

Route: Cotswold Line (Worcester to Hereford section)
Between Worcester Foregate Street and Malvern Link Stations
(Significantly closer to Worcester Foregate Street Station)

Location: B4206 Henwick Road, Worcester
Trains:
Lowering 1 (Starts at 0:10):
1) 2 Class 172/0s (West Midlands Railway) - 1:30
Hereford ➡ Birmingham New Street

2) Class 165 (Great Western Railway) - 1:36 (Double Pass)
Bristol Temple Meads ➡ Great Malvern
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Lowering 2 (Starts at 2:13):
Class 172/3 (West Midlands Railway) - 3:32
Birmingham New Street ➡ Hereford
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Lowering 3 (Starts at 4:01):
Class 800 (Great Western Railway) - 5:58
Great Malvern ➡ London Paddington

A level crossing found within the city of Worcester. It's located around half a mile from the city centre across the River Severn, and it's controlled from the active signal box located next to it. Pedestrians can cross via an underpass on one side of the road to safely skip the wait at the barriers. This level crossing's current set-up of equipment dates back to 2015 following a renewal, and a one-second time gap separates the left-hand barriers reaching the lowered position and the right-hand barriers beginning to lower. There are also two alarms here, and each is rather quiet.

Each track running through this level crossing is bi-directional, meaning a train can be cleared through in either direction on either line. In the first lowering, the two trains that passed were heading in the typical directions expected for each line in this country, and both trains met at the level crossing and passed at the same time. The following two lowerings feature the one train featured in each respective lowering running against this flow on each line.

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