Gloucester Level Crossing

Friday August 7 2020 at 8.08. The 18.45 Cardiff to Nottingham (22.14) train on an earlier closure. Then 66077 going from East Usk in south Wales (14.58) to Scunthorpe (01.17) and the 18.30 London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa (20.32) trains. This crossing was filmed from the other side in 2013. Since then there have been new lights and new barriers. Last time there was a 23 second delay before the barriers were lifted, it was the same this time suggesting a system fault. As you can see someone jumped the lights. A cyclist did too. There is a camera here but I suspect many of Network Rail’s cameras don’t work. The local paper isn’t full of court cases. The wait here was 5 minutes 50. It is Gloucester Cathedral with the sun behind. I hope everyone agrees that new young filmers deserve the chance to have their videos watched. That can’t happen, however, if someone uploads 48 videos of the same crossing. That simply isn’t fair.