Level Crossing, Inglewood VIC, Australia.

The first activation is shown at 4:50
This is the Brooke Street (Calder Highway) level crossing at Inglewood. It is located in north-western Victoria on the broad gauge line from Dunolly to Manangatang which is mostly used to transport grain.
These signals were installed on December 8, 1964, with both signals having McKenzie & Holland bases and Westinghouse LED lights. The southern signal has a pinnacle and Artcraft healthy state indicator, while the northern signal has a General Signals Type 2 electronic bell.
This bell appears to be an early model Type 2 and is the 3-way variant which was previously available from General Signals but is now discontinued. It was called the 3-way version due to having a three position switch which could be used to change the volume to high, medium or low settings. This particular bell is set on loud volume.
It is rare to find these bells with the volume switch intact, as most (particularly on Melbourne Metro) had the switch removed and the hole plugged with a bolt or other material to reduce the risk of water leaking into the bell. Later versions of the bell had the switch located inside the base to protect it from the weather.
The train shown in the video is 9155 empty grain from North Geelong Yard to Boort, with locomotives XR555, XR554 and BL34.
Filmed on May 3, 2022.

[@TheBCRailfan]

Nice crossing and video!

[@jacktherailwayenthusiast3343]

Great video Michael

[@McKHAust]

Thanks Jack

[@TrickyMario7654]

I’m amazed this crossing is still gateless, considering that most of the other Calder Highway crossings on the Kulwin and Robinvale lines (including the ones on the out of service section between Eaglehawk and Inglewood) received gates in the late 2000s. I’m pretty sure the Calder Highway crossing at Charlton is still gateless as well. There used to be a number of teardrop and hybrid bells (mostly the former) at those crossings before the upgrades too.

[@McKHAust]

It certainly makes no sense to leave this crossing but upgrade the crossings around Marong just before the line closed, but then again logic is in short supply in the rail industry.

[@TrickyMario7654]

@@McKHAust Actually, I think the line at Marong was already out of service by that stage, so the gated signals they installed probably haven’t been used yet! I wonder if they did it in case if the line gets reactivated? I remember there were two crossings between Strathmerton and Cobram that received flashing lights at them in June 1991, two years before the passenger service to Cobram was cut back to Shepparton. The line then saw only occasional freight trains until 1999, when it went out of service. Those signals only saw eight years of use, with most of them being during the period after the passenger service was axed.

[@McKHAust]

@@TrickyMario7654 sounds just like the Murwillumbah line, was closed in 2004 and around 2001 and 2002 they upgraded quite a few crossings.

[@TrickyMario7654]

@@McKHAust It’s disgraceful what happened to that line. It should still be in use today, as should all the V/Line services axed by Kennett. The South Gippsland line also had crossings at Lang Lang and Nyora receive flashing lights at them in October 1990, but the passenger service got axed three years later. One of them only saw about five more years of use before the South Gippy line was closed beyond Cranbourne in 1998 when the Lang Lang sand train stopped running, while the other got downgraded back to passive when the SGR took over the line from Nyora-Leongatha to operate a tourist railway, before going belly up in 2016.

[@howardstrach6479]

​@@TrickyMario7654after the passenger services ceased on the cobram line I bet the line would have only seen seasonal grain trains

[@trainman758]

Nice video!

[@McKHAust]

Thanks!