With friends in Collingham earlier in the week, we took a walk alongside the railway. This is a village with a direct train service to London King’s Cross these days and an Azuma unit was passing as we arrived. Our circular walk took us out over a conventional marked footpath across the railway and back along a minor road crossing with shiny, modern, metal gates but in the traditional style. These only open outwards across the road and are operated under strict instructions by the road vehicle user, which is most likely to be farm traffic. Flat road crossings are much more common on this side of the country and especially in the lower Trent valley, where the topography did not lead itself so readily to bridge construction. The former crossing keeper’s cottage here has long been a private house.
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