Sheet Level Crossing, Hampshire

Date filmed: Tuesday the 5th of September 2023
Videos filmed between 18:45 and 19:19
Route: Portsmouth Direct Line
- Between Liss and Petersfield Stations
Crossing type: Automatic Half Barrier Crossing (AHBC)
Location: School Lane, Sheet
Trains featured:
Lowering 1 (0:00):
444 040 & 444 006 (South Western Railway) - 0:38
1G53 London Waterloo ➡ Portsmouth Harbour
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Lowering 2 (1:24):
450 047 & 450 099 (South Western Railway) - 2:05
1G64 Portsmouth Harbour ➡ London Waterloo
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Lowering 3 (2:25):
444 028 & 444 008 (South Western Railway) - 2:55
1P57 London Waterloo ➡ Portsmouth Harbour
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Lowering 4 (3:16):
450 118, 450 109 & 450 021 (South Western Railway) - 3:49
1G55 London Waterloo ➡ Portsmouth Harbour
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Lowering 5 (4:20):
444 009 & 444 016 (South Western Railway) - 5:00
1P66 Portsmouth Harbour ➡ London Waterloo
An Automatic level crossing with half-barriers located just outside Petersfield in the village of Sheet. To the day of filming, it's still one level crossing that has Mk.1 twin-arm concrete pillar barriers, although the number of crossings with these is starting to decrease quite quickly. This one doesn't have much longer left either as a result of an upcoming re-signalling project, and it is clearly visible that preparation works to change it to a full-barrier crossing are well underway. There are additional pedestrian gates on the exit-sides, which seem a little un-loved as a lot of people seemed to walk round them as this is quite a quiet road, and 2 E2S 'Apello' alarms on the same side of the road, alarms which are rather loud compared to a lot of this kind.
The trains featured in this video include some of the additional trains which use this line at peak time. It's a little more unusual to see the service increasing on a line at peak times to this extent nowadays (4 trains/hour off-peak to 7 trains/hour in the peak).
Train details sourced from:
Real Time Trains: www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sear...
Open Train Times: www.opentraintimes.com/maps
Traksy: traksy.uk/live
Filmed on: Panasonic HC-VX1 in 4K 25fps
Thanks for watching!

[@MiguelRios100]

Noice level crosing the trains!!!! 😎😎

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks!

[@NWLevelCrossings]

Excellent Videos! Really like these barriers! Going to really miss them because I can see that renewal isn’t too far away.

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Same here. Thanks!

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

I'm hoping they preserve some Penguin barriers at a heritage railway and retrofit them with Staythorpe barrier skirts. I'd advise that they re-use the barriers from here and Kingsfernsden Lane on a light railway, and make a four-barrier crossing with these.

[@NorthWestLevelCrossingsChannel]

Excellent video and Crossing 👍

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you very much!

[@freebrickproductions]

Great video and crossing!

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Cheers!

[@SouthWestCrossingsUK]

Great video! Love them barriers!

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Me too. Thanks!

[@Tjgamer_124]

Awesome nice video man

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks!

[@vastjonea]

Nice one! What was that crossing in the distance on the first closure?

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks! It was the one on Kingsfernsden Lane.

[@SouthCoastTrains]

Nice catch! Do you know what the level crossing you zoomed in on is called?

[@NWLevelCrossings]

It’s Kings Fernsden.

[@greatbritainlevelcrossings8149]

That’s Kingsfernsden I think

[@c.s-crossings]

It's on Kingsfernsden Lane, on the outskirts of Petersfield. I honestly don't know (or care) what NR's official name for it is, but I think it's "Kings Fernsden" or something.

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

@@greatbritainlevelcrossings8149 Yeah, that's Kingsfernsden Lane. That's getting upgraded as well.

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks, South Coast Trains. As people have correctly pointed out, it's Kings Fernsden crossing czcams.com/video/HgIXKUNGchY/video.html