Surprising to find this still happening in 2017! This is Chartham, near Canterbury, in Kent. The crossing keeper is kept busy with 6 trains per hour, during the day.

Doing it the old fashioned way! The signalman at East Farleigh, in Kent, pushes the crossing barriers across the road. I don`t know if this is still happening in 2014.

Locations where Bord na Mona's 3-foot narrow gauge tracks cross public roads are guarded by manually-operated gates and split-point derails (known locally as "catch points"). Normally left with t... (more)

In the late afternoon, the keeper opens the level crossing gates at Oakworth station after the departure of the train.