Imagine seeing this as you break out on an instrument approach in low IFR weather. Yikes!
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The railway remains in occasional operation by Gisborne City Vintage Railway as far as Muriwai. This includes the line across the runway and over the Waipaoa River (longest rail bridge in North Island.) The section is just isolated like it was when first built. The section from Napier to Wairoa is currently being worked on by KiwiRail for reopening to log traffic to Napier port. There is apparently another railway crossing a runway and I recall it was on RailPictures that I saw it. Their website https://www.gcvr.org.nz/ does say that it is the only such example in Southern Hemisphere. Great shot as always Georg!
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Wow, a railroad crossing an aircraft runway - I can't say that I have seen something like this before.
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Thanks, John, for the info and clues. Nice to read that this runway crossing is still used occasionally.
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I dig the cool fact that this is a runway but the thing that caught my eye in the thumbnail was the unique shape of J class No. 1211 and the unusual but perfect composition by the one and only Georg Trub.
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This is one of the best photos outside of the USA I've ever seen! Shoot, even in the US, it's hard to get this much beauty in one pic!
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| Posted by Andrew on December 31, 2018 | |
See Railpictures http://www.railpictures.net/photo/677522/
I used to drive on the main Glasgow to Ayr road. It crossed Prestwick Airport runway and was controlled by traffic lights. This was a busy road and traffic included double decker buses. The last time I was in Gibraltar I crossed the runway when I drove into the town. Check this Google sat. view. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gibraltar/@36.151061,-5.3497387,603m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0xd0cbf762714be35:0x384e25263600870f!8m2!3d36.140751!4d-5.353585?hl=en
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| Posted by Kibu on January 3, 2019 | |
The Fairford Branch of the GWR crossed the Brize Norton AFB's taxiways. I forget if it also crossed the runway too.
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There is (was) an example in Northern Ireland where a railway and runway intersect. It is at Ballykelly, which is between Londonderry and Castlerock. The runway is now closed but, in the years when it was in operation, the control systems between railway signalling and aircraft control tower were interlocked. Trains had priority and right of way over landing aircraft. (Search Wikipedia on 'RAF Ballykelly' to find the page, which has the full history of this location.)
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The crossing is controlled by the airport control tower with special runway signals as well as railroad signals. You can see the operation of that in a video clip at: http://www.hoaxorfact.com/technology/napier-gisborne-railway-line-passes-through-airport-runway-facts.html
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I drove trains across that runway for 20½ years from March 1978 until October 1998, then I moved to Wairarapa where I'm still driving trains out of Masterton more than 20 years later. During the several years I was based at Gisborne, Fieldair were operating three Douglas DC-3 and up to nine DHC-2 Beaver topdressing aeroplanes out of Gisborne spreading superphosphate on farms around the Gisborne area and up the East Coast. My alarm clock early in the morning used to be heaps of radial engines. I even managed to score a couple of rides in the cockpit of Fieldair's DC-3 topdressers by trading a ride in a locomotive cab (down to Napier and return) for a ride in the Dakota for one of Fieldair's pilots (all very unofficially, of course).
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