Highams Park Level Crossing

Friday December 30th 2011 at 9.30 am. The 9.27 Chingford to London (Liverpool Street, 9.57) train heads out of Highams Park station. This is the only level crossing on this short 10.5 mile north London line and the only one in the north-east quarter of London if Tottenham, Brimsdown and Enfield are in the north-west quarter. The signal box is no longer used. 8 trains an hour use this crossing.

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Travel & Events

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• Highams Park
• Level Crossing
• Chingford line
• Hale End Road
• London

[hihat101]

up in the box here at highams park, you used to get a Bell ring when a train would leave Chingford station on the up line toward Highams park which you then pressed a button on panal to cause the barriers to start the alarms going and the booms to come down, then you's pull an interlocking lever on the small frame to interlock signal on the end of the platform at highams park which would come off to a green aspect, for trains approaching on the down line toward Chingford, you'd get a buzzer .

[hihat101]

I also remember spellbrook box before it went off to the mangapps farm railway, i funny story i remember was a crossing keeper at spellbrook one day got bored, so he stood winding the large wheel that you used to open the old style gates, he wound it anti clockwise, forgot about the kinetic energy he'd built up and the wheel sprung back causing the gates to ping and make a nice dent in an oncoming car !

[hihat101]

Great uploads !, i checked your channel out because i used to back in 1993 be a relief crossing keeper for Railtrack West Anglia, i used to work this very box back in the day !, many a happy saturday and sunday spent up there