(Two Faulty Alarms) Oldends Level Crossing, Gloucestershire

Date filmed: 11/12/2021
Videos filmed at: 15:32 | 15:47
Route: Bristol to Birmingham Line
- Between Gloucester and Cam & Dursley Stations
Location: Oldends Lane, Stonehouse
Trains:
Lowering 1 (Starts at 0:09):
Class 170 (East Midlands Railway - Regional) - 1:50
Bristol Barton Hill W.R.D. ➡ Etches Park Sidings
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Lowering 2 (Starts at 2:24):
Class 158 (Great Western Railway) - 3:45
Great Malvern ➡ Westbury
A level crossing found within Stonehouse a few miles south of Gloucester and just west of Stroud. This level crossing has two full-road-width barriers, as well as two fairly quiet alarms which both produce very similar and really quite faulty tones, and it's unusual to have both of two alarms at level crossings going so faulty at the same time. This level crossing is found just south of Standish Junction and is used by trains heading towards Bristol via Yate and Filton.
In the first of two lowerings, an East Midlands Railway class 170 is seen completely out of place! It was running as an empty stock movement from Bristol to Etches Park in Derby, and it was very odd to see a train which you'd expect to find around the East Midlands (Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln etc.) all the way in the Bristol area.
Thanks for watching!

[@freebrickproductions]

Great video! Will admit I do kinda like the way those alarms sound, lol.

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks! I can say I agree tbh!

[@jackmctaggartfm8087]

Wow more crossings with 2 faulty alarms they both sound the same speed

[@ronniedio19422010]

This crossing used to have a really loud bell before it changed to the 'woowoowoo' thing. As a trainspotter 35+ years ago, I could hear it from my bedroom and I usually had enough time to leg it downstairs, grab my BMX from the garage and pedal like buggery down to the car park by the crossing just before the train arrived! The rewards back then were worth the effort though - regular 31s, 37s, 47s, 50s and occasional 20s, 25s and 45s, not just an endless stream of plastic crap like it is now! ;)

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

Bloody hell! That sounds epic!

[@NELincsTransport]

Great video, nice location and angle here, those alarms need replacing though

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you! Glad you think that. These alarms are in definite need of a replacement, though I will say it's not a kind of sound combination I've heard before.

[@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial]

Bloody hell! That sounds epic! Also, why is there an EMR 170 on this route today? Was it on hire to XC?

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

It was a stock movement from Bristol to Derby. It'd probably just been transferred and was making its long distance movement.

[@NELincsTransport]

@@SouthEastLevelCrossings I doubt it had just been transferred as I'm sure I've seen this particular 170 in Grimsby a few times

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

@@NELincsTransport Hmm. Probably just stock maintenance then.

[@NELincsTransport]

@@SouthEastLevelCrossings odd that it would be done in Bristol though as it probably would have been better to do it at one of the EMR depots at either Nottingham Eastcroft or Derby Etches Park

[@maimadha]

Great video '

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thanks!

[@Notactive-VLC]

oh lord those alarms need help

[@pakroomitrains]

Great video 👍👍👍

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you 👍

[@LevelCrossingFan92]

Nice video! These alarms need replacing or fixing!

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Cheers! They really do.

[@TheChannelThatHatesRedBull]

Great video. Alarms need changing

[@SouthEastLevelCrossings]

Thank you! They do.