Network Rail plans to install a new warning system to improve safety at 23 footpath level crossings across Anglia in early 2017 as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan. The system has already been installed at three footpath level crossings in Suffolk and Essex, at Spring Lane and Pagets footpath level crossings in Wivenhoe and at Islands footpath level crossing in Bentley, where the user is required to stop, look and listen for a train before crossing.
The system reproduces the sound of a train horn at the crossing. This is an additional warning for the user that a train is approaching, just in case they haven’t heard the train’s horn.
By improving the safety at the crossings with this additional measure, temporary speed restrictions can now be lifted at Spring Lane and Padgets level crossings in Wivenhoe, reducing delays for passengers travelling between Colchester and Clacton on Sea or Walton on the Naze.
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