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level crossing

NOUN
  1. intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass

How To Use level crossing In A Sentence

  • Reports of a youth on the line at a level crossing yesterday sparked an alert on the railways.
  • Passengers described the terror felt after the train smashed into a car at a level crossing in Berkshire and was plunged into sudden darkness.
  • There are 21792 unmanned and 16549 manned level crossings.
  • Traffic hold-ups at railway level crossings will considerably increase with more trains, the traffic study has found.
  • The operation simulated a high speed train - which had jumped a red light - careering into a car on a level crossing.
  • Reverting to the older kind of level crossing where the signals would be set to danger until the road is halted and safely closed off.
  • Rusting old loco motives; a water tower, chipped by bomb-splinters; a level crossing; pithead gear; a station sign. DISPLACED PERSON
  • A passenger train smashed into a truck on a level crossing.
  • On an average, 141 persons have died per year at unmanned level crossings during the last decade.
  • Level crossings still pose the greatest risk to life on the railways, a rail safety chief said yesterday.
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