White Hart Lane Level Crossing, Greater London

Borough: London Borough of Richmond-Upon-Thames

Date filmed: 05/03/2023
Videos filmed between 15:27 and 15:56

Route: London Waterloo to Reading Line
Between Barnes and Mortlake Stations

Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barriers crossing with CCTV (MCB-CCTV)

Location: White Hart Lane, Mortlake
Trains featured:
Lowering 1 (0:00)
1) 2 Class 450s (South Western Railway) - 0:53
Ascot ➡ London Waterloo

2) 2 Class 444s (South Western Railway) - 1:10
London Waterloo ➡ Poole (Via Richmond & Feltham)
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Lowering 2 (1:37)
2 Class 707s (South Western Railway) - 2:50
London Waterloo ➡ Shepperton
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Lowering 3 (3:18):
1) 2 Class 458s (South Western Railway) - 4:21
London Waterloo ➡ Windsor & Eton Riverside

2) 2 Class 455s with a friendly driver (South Western Railway) - 4:50
Windsor & Eton Riverside ➡ London Waterloo
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Lowering 4 (5:16):
2 Class 444s (South Western Railway) - 5:47
Portsmouth & Southsea and Poole ➡ London Waterloo (Via Feltham & Richmond)
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Lowering 5 (6:12):
1) 3 Class 159s (South Western Railway) - 7:39
London Waterloo ➡ Exeter St. David's (Via Richmond & Feltham)

2) 2 Class 450s (South Western Railway) - 8:10
Fratton ➡ London Waterloo (Via Feltham & Richmond)

3) 2 Class 450s (South Western Railway) - 8:38
London Waterloo ➡ Ascot

A level crossing and a fairly recently-built footbridge found on White Hart Lane between Mortlake and Barnes Railway Stations on the very busy London Waterloo to Reading Line. The footbridge, named Hart Bypass, was completed and opened in 2019 and now allows pedestrians and cyclists to skip the waits at the lowered barriers, which can be lowered for numerous and multiple trains at a time. Due to side roads on each side, there are as many as six LED wigwags / road traffic lights in total, and each pedestrian footway over the level crossing is handily coloured in yellow.

A mixture of commuter, suburban, and diverted mainline services feature in this video, the latter through this location thanks to engineering works on the main line on the day of filming. All services to/from the South Coast and South West that would've used that line from London Waterloo were diverted via Feltham, as the closure was between Clapham Junction and Weybridge. Most used this line through Richmond and Twickenham, though two per hour used the Hounslow Loop Line as like a relief line, as the line through Richmond was very busy indeed.

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