Grimsby (Pasture Street) Level Crossing, Lincolnshire

Date filmed: Tuesday the 2nd of April 2024
Videos filmed at: 14:26 | 14:43

Route: South Humberside Main Line
– Between Grimsby Town (GMB) and Grimsby Docks (GMD) Stations

Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barrier crossing with Obstacle Detection (MCB-OD)

Filming location: Pasture Street, Grimsby (DN31 1QD)

Trains featured:
Intro – 0:00
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Lowering 1 (0:19):
185 102 & 185 144 (Transpennine Express) – 1:34
1B83 Cleethorpes ➡ Liverpool Lime Street | On-time
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Lowering 2 (2:16):
170 508 (East Midlands Railway – Regional) – 3:23
2F90 Barton-on-Humber ➡ Cleethorpes | 5 minutes late
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End-of-video picture showcase: 3:59

An obstacle detection level crossing, one of as many as 5 different ones all scattered around the edge of Grimsby Town Centre within about a mile of each other on a slow, bendy section of the South Humberside Main Line. These crossings work together, auto-lowered by the approach of trains, to very efficiently minimise barrier down time and keep trains moving. This level crossing on Pasture Street is located just past the eastern end of the main town centre beside a bridge over the busy A16 road and has very quiet alarms, but four of them. This is also one of two in the town on a one-way street for vehicles, the second lane acting as a cycle lane, but has full road lights on both sides even post-renewal. The detection which allows the crossing to give an ‘all-clear’ indication for the signaller at York ROC to accept appears to be quite widespread and generous, stopping the exit-side two barriers locking into place with me actually not that close to the barriers really! I quickly realised this and moved back without delay, as seen in the second lowering.

Two different trains are seen in this video, one a Transpennine Express service at the start of its very long journey all the way to Liverpool, and the second being the Barton-on-Humber service about to take the final local stops on its run into Cleethorpes. This is quite a busy crossing, and unfortunately in quite a rough part of Grimsby, a part of town that lives up to one of the town’s name’s implied meanings!

Train details sourced from:
Real Time Trains: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/search/detailed/
Open Train Times: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Traksy: https://traksy.uk/live

Filmed on: Panasonic HC-VX1 in 4K 25fps

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