UK: Level crossing, Ufton Nervet
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- A selection of level crossing clips showing First Great Western passenger trains at Ufton Nervet Level Crossing in Berkshire, these are operated by InterCity 125 type High Speed Trains forming long distance services and Class 165 Turbo diesel multiple units operating local trains.
Clip 1 - 1C82 1206 London Paddington to Penzance
Clip 2 (0:50) - 1K52 1218 London Paddington to Bedwyn
Clip 3 (2:22) - 1A81 0844 Penzance to London Paddington
Clip 4 (3:08) - 1K61 1238 Bedwyn to London Paddington
Clip 5 (4:10) - A view of the "Area of Reflection" showing the memorial plaque remembering those affected by the 2004 collision.
All were recorded at Ufton Nervet level crossing on Monday 26th January 2015.
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A level crossing (a primarily British term; usually known as a railroad crossing in North America) is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion. Other names include railway crossing, grade crossing, road through railroad, railroad crossing, and train crossing.
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Ufton Nervet is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England centred 6 miles (10 km) west south-west of the large town of Reading.
The parish is bounded to the north by the A4 road, to the south by a minor road linking Burghfield and Tadley.
The Ufton Nervet level crossing crash took place in the parish on 6 November 2004. Seven people were killed and 70 injured when the main service from London Paddington to Plymouth which passes through here was derailed by colliding with a stationary car on the level crossing. Road deaths at the crossing have followed in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014.
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On 6 November 2004 at 18:12 GMT, the First Great Western 17:35 service from London Paddington to Plymouth, an InterCity 125 (HST) led by a Class 43 power car (43019) collided with a stationary car at an automatic level crossing close to the rural West Berkshire village of Ufton Nervet. The inquest concluded that the crash was caused by Brian Drysdale, a chef at the nearby Wokefield Park Hotel, committing suicide by parking his car on the crossing.
The rear of the 220 m (720 ft) long InterCity 125 train came to rest about 100 m (110 yd) beyond the crossing with all eight coaches derailed. Seven people were killed in the level crossing crash: the car's driver, the driver of the train, and five of its passengers. About 200 people were on board at the time of the incident (official estimates are around 180-200). About half of these were injured, 12 of them seriously. Eleven people were cut free from the wreckage near the level crossing. The high structural integrity of the Mark 3 coaches prevented a much higher death toll, plus the fact that the more lightly loaded first-class coaches were at the leading end of the train.
Beside the level crossing a small gravelled "Area of Reflection" has been created with two wooden benches facing an engraved steel memorial plaque remembering all people affected by the collision at the level crossing. Also, on what would have been his 55th birthday, First Great Western named power car 43139 after the driver of the train.
In November 2012, Network Rail issued a news release stating that it would like to replace the level crossing with a road bridge, but funding would need to be secured.
In March 2014 Network Rail said it "remained on course" to replace the level crossing "by mid-2014 or 2015". In April 2014 the company made exploratory boreholes and other tests to help it to evaluate the existing level crossing site, and in October 2014 it submitted bridge designs to West Berkshire Council.
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First Great Western is a British train operating company owned by FirstGroup. It provides the majority of commuter and outer-suburban services from its Central London terminus at London Paddington to West London and the Thames Valley region including Berkshire, parts of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire along with long-distance inter-city services via the Great Western Main Line to South West England and South Wales.
First Great Western uses its large fleet of 58 HST "InterCity 125" sets (seven or eight Mk III coaches between two Class 43 locomotives) to operate most long-distance services.
The Class 165 "Thames Turbo" is a two- or three-coach DMU used on shorter-distance services in the Thames Valley area.
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Level crossing, Ufton Nervet, Berkshire.
Very sad reading about the Ufton Nervet derailment and putting a bridge in place of the crossing was the sensible and thoughtful option.
It would have been cheaper to convert it into an MCB
I wish the crossing was still there
Waterloo Road got closed too, it's always the crossings with penguin barriers that sadly get removed.
Great shots
This crossing is like the crossings in America. Except the trains don't blow horns, and don't have bells.
@@c.s-crossingsHere in Australia, trains are required to blow their horn at each crossing. Melbourne had the most crossings in the country back then but its slowly starting to get removed by level crossing removal.
@@c.s-crossings nice.
Excellent video
i love the bell
Same
The alarm sounds a bit like Brock Foot Crossing's alarm
RXRNathan it does Actually
How refreshing it must be to live where you don't have a government that insists on 140 dB horns being sounded five times before each train gets to the crossing.
Good grief, talk about overkill
I wouldn't know the difference 😂
This level crossing has since been removed and replaced with a bridge.
I know 😭😭
This was because there was a crash involving a HST and a car in 2004. It turns out that it was a suicide of the driver of that car.
@@jml6901 That wasn't the only fatal incident. In 2012, there was a collision with a motor scooter on the level crossing. The rider of the scooter (which was completely smashed to bits) was killed, and the train driver suffered minor injuries.
@@petercdowney Don't forget about the suicides in 2009, 2010 and 2014, plus the near-miss in 2011 that was due to the crossing being incorrectly operated locally.
The level crossing is highly protected
Hi, This scene is history now as the level crossing has been replaced with a road bridge over the railway
Level Crossings sounds like a fire alarm.
No they dont.
@@suffolklevelcrossings2481 yes they do...
They should replace this level crossing with a safer level crossing with gates underneath!
Has now been replaced with a bridge.
This level crossing was replaced by a bridge
Too many people have died at this level crossing, Something needs to be done BEFORE the next one happens.....Look at the statistics!!!
+Rodney Howe This LC is being replaced with a road bridge in 2019. They have already started building it
+NewBuildmini They've already started building the bridge
Southern Trainspotting It's now a bridge the crossing has gone
Rodney How
NotMarkKnopfler look up ufton nervet crash
American here, I don't understand why people kept dying here and the crossing had to close. Nothing looks unsafe about this. Most countries can have half-barrier crossings without constant fatalities and needing to drop full gates across level crossings. I completely get why politically something had to be done, but I'm baffled it got to this point.
the crossing in itself isn't unsafe for the most part. it's the people that use it who are the liability, and that liability has to be removed if accidents are to be prevented. the bridge was the right course of action to take.
Problem is, this one particular crossing had become widely-known as a suicide hotspot, so with all the deaths here the most sensible (and sympathetic) option was to build a bridge. Additionally, the line was electrified in 2018 so newer and more trains were using the line, plus half-barrier crossings are unsafe on busier and higher-speed lines (max speed 100mph, which IS the speed on this line).
@@secretmanPFD a controlled full barrier crossing would have more cheaply achieved the same effect as they check it before clearing the signal to let the train go
@@grassytramtracks you'd have to pay someone to watch the crossing, and someone would have to constantly watch it. In the long term it's probably best to do away with a level crossing entirely, as they have.
@@secretmanPFD which is done remotely anyway from the signal box. Many crossings have obstacle detection that automatically clears the signal if no-one and nothing is detected
The trains don't blow their horns as they go by in the U.K.? Because here in the States, it's the law to blow the horn long-long-short-long before every crossing.
Because a warning sounds to let cars know a train is coming and people are not stupid to go through when the barriers are down
@@scottjennings2060 oh yes they are! We get plenty of Level Crossing Misuse here! See how AHB crossings only have half barriers? People do weave around them. It does happen.
They do in some places without gates but where there is a gate they dont
Poor crossing, didn’t need to get removed.
Yeah, they could have just upgraded it into an obstical detection crossing
@@mkasrailwaysliftsmore8005 a full barrier level crossing would've been better
@@maimadha That's what I'm saying, an obstical detection crossing is a full barrier crossing with sensors
The problem was that the crossing had become widely-known as a suicide hotspot, so no matter what kind of crossing was in its place there would still be fatalities here every so often. Plus, try to think about those families who were affected by the 2004 crash - they all desperately needed to see the crossing removed to feel closure and safe again on the railways. Also, don't forget the line was electrified at the end of 2018, so if money was being spent on electrifying and resignalling the line then it only makes sense to do it when they did.
@@mkasrailwaysliftsmore8005 They DID consider the upgrade to MCB-CCTV, though, and in 2012 that was what the local petition asked for. But on both occasions NR refused to take any action because they held out hope that a bridge could be built - and in 2015 they got their wish as preparations took place for the works (Apr 2016 construction began, Dec 2016 works finished).
The level crossing tone has to be replaced its ugly but great video
The whole crossing is gone. It's a bridge now.
@@delta.australiaI wonder why…
@@thefraserchannel6562the reason Ufton Nervet level crossing was replaced by a bridge was because there was a HST crash that happened on the 6th November 2004. The bridge was completed in 2016. Also the line was electrified in 2018.