Maghull Level Crossing, Merseyside

Date filmed: 20/01/2023
Videos filmed between 14:57 and 15:16

Route: Merseyrail Northern Line (Ormskirk Branch)
Maghull Station

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

Location: Station Road, Kennessee Green
Trains featured:
Lowering 1 (Starts at 0:00):
Class 507 (Merseyrail) - 1:34
Ormskirk ➡ Liverpool Central
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Lowering 2 (Starts at 2:38):
Class 508 (Merseyrail) - 3:40
Liverpool Central ➡ Ormskirk
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Lowering 3 (Starts at 4:23):
Class 507 (Merseyrail) - 5:05
Kirkdale C.S. ➡ Ormskirk
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Lowering 4 (Starts at 5:46):
Class 508 (Merseyrail) - 6:31
Ormskirk ➡ Liverpool Central

A level crossing found next to the fairly busy Maghull Railway Station on the line towards Ormskirk from Liverpool Central. This level crossing has quite unique and retro-sounding alarms which are reasonably loud. They're rather frequently sounding too as there are trains in each direction every 15 minutes (a total of eight trains per hour) typically. At the very start of the video, the lowering sequence was briefly cancelled to allow somebody to finish crossing. This was not a malfunction.

The train in the third lowering was un-expected and was an empty coaching stock (ECS) movement towards Ormskirk for extra peak-time capacity.

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