The Longest UK Crossing - Helpston Level Crossing, Cambridgeshire

[@trainstrainstrains40]

Great video! I like seeing LNWR trains whizz by!

[@denelson83]

You mean LN🇪R, right?

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Thanks 😊 And yeah, I think you mean LNER, so do I 👌

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

LNWR is quite different to LNER in both the livery and the trains they use!

[@ajszyna]

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[@ajszyna]

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[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Fantastic video of one of my top favourite level crossings in the UK!!! It really does take a very long time to walk across this crossing from one side to another as I've experienced twice now. The alarm combination as well as this really makes this quite an iconic crossing for me, one I absolutely love filming at when I get the chance, and had everything not turned out like it did, I'd have come here again back in April. Loved seeing this video though! 👍👍😁

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Thanks! 😁 Yeah it's a great crossing, and I'm glad I've been able to visit and film it a few times 👍

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

@@UKLevelCrossingsChannel Likewise! 👍👍

[@MikeWillSee]

I'd always wondered what the longest was, thanks for showing this off!

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

No problem 😊

[@Dave-vt2mt]

Stuck here right now. It's a ridiculous crossing and a tunnel is needed. There's an ambulance that can't get through. This has to be one of the worst in th UK, I've been here 20 min and still nothing

[@NELincsTransport]

Great video

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Thanks 😎

[@callum110597]

Wow, that is a lot of tracks!

[@freebrickproductions]

Great video and catch with that meet!

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Thank you 😁

[@christianmason2793]

the barrers are dirty but they don't bang

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Much of the skirting on one barrier has been fixed with tape. The barriers need a looking at.

[@julianaylor4351]

Amazing crossing.😀

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

😁👍

[@MarkAtkin]

Any idea which crossing has the longest manual gates?

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Not too sure on this one to be honest, however I know there's a couple of crossings with very large gates on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR), specifically at Grosmomt and Newbridge. Not too sure of any on the mainline though

[@0utcastAussie]

@@UKLevelCrossingsChannel Probably Woodcroft as it's only a mile away from Helpston and it's manual so the same number of lines !

[@zohaibjamal876]

Love it but the skirts are very damaged are they going to be replaced

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Yeah, I don't know when the barriers are to be replaced here.

[@LiftEnthusiast2020OFFTOPIC]

👍🏻 Aeesome crossing Maxey is second longest. 😎

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Yep, and I filmed that too 😁

[@nemesisplaysfrag8016]

Hey :) how are you? Did you hear about the Norwich road Incident of December last year?

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

I'm good. No, I don't recall any Norwich incident.

[@nemesisplaysfrag8016]

@@UKLevelCrossingsChannel there was this level crossing on Norwich Road. Around the 6th of December 2019, the crossing malfunctioned. A train was going around 45mph towards the crossing. I don't know what caused it but the crossing suddenly let traffic through. 2 cars drove over the crossing at the same time the train was coming. The train was a quarter of a second away from hitting one of the cars

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Ah yes I remember that. I saw the video footage of the crossing raising and then the cars crossing with inches to spare. Very freightening. I believe the crossing detection systems were being investigated.

[@gaborracz1882]

That's not that really long. But may I ask, how many tracks does it have?

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Well it's the longest in the UK. It looks shorter in the video but when you walk across it it's actually quite long. It has 6 tracks.

[@melodytheyeen]

That red car is doing exactly what we do here in the states. dont turn off the engina and only put it in park

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Yeah, plenty of people never turn their engines off.

[@bagussatriachannel]

Very good

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Thanks! 😁

[@sjmedia54]

More at Helpston! :)

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Don't worry, I have more 😉

[@NewFall]

Wow That was the longest crossing I ever seen

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Yeah, it's the longest in the UK 😊

[@STUAA2024]

This crossing recieved new barriers a while ago.

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Yeah I saw

[@techstuff786]

Worst crossing I have ever been on. It really tests your patience and I'm supposed to be a very patient guy. Over 20 minutes and a really long que of cars on both sides yet these fucking trains won't stop crossing. Talk about priority, we pay tax for nothing in this country. It's a complete joke that they couldn't implement a better system.

[@maimadha]

Great video

[@UKLevelCrossingsChannel]

Thanks! 😁