NOUN
- 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.