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In Hanwell, in addition to Trumpers there is also the Warren Farm crossing on the same line. Strangely, on an OS map, the public right of way crosses at Warren Farm, with Trumpers Crossing not even shown on the map.
However, on the network rail map, it states Trumpers as a public footpath but Warren farm as a private one.

Both are very well used and I regularly cross them both on a circular walk from my house.

I wonder if the course of the right of way has changed at some point.
Residents of "..the lower middle class suburb of Cranham" may regard the description as being all a bit Charles Booth!
That’s quite an epic journey DG. Glad you enjoyed the good weather. A splendid blog. Sad about the St Andrew’s crossing being under threat, but inevitable I guess. The Cranham Road to Osborne Road crossing made my life far easier cycling between friends’s houses in DMU days. Your blogs are entertaining eye-openers, thanks yet again.
The crossing identified as "Golf Links" in Enfield is more commonly known in these parts as "Tinky Tops" (a corruption of "Tingays Tops", also the name of a nearby lane) and was a popular spot with my friends and I as young lads when we could engage in nefarious activities like putting old pennies on the line to get squashed by the trains & retrieved before the station master had time to come from Crew's Hill to apprehend us.
Some years ago I crossed the Lea valley line on a footpath (I don’t know if that one’s still open). Having to watch out for trains that were quite fast unnerved me more than a little.
There is I believe a foot crossing over the Enfield Town branch at Lincoln Road. It was closed to road traffic in 2012 after a lorry damaged the gates.

dg writes: Aha, indeed there is. It appears in Network Rail's 6000-row database without a location, so I missed it. Updated, thanks.
I am really surprised that there are only nine. If you extend it a bit to all of zone six I can think of three more between Kingswood and Chipstead. This includes the easily overlooked bridleway crossing just to the west of Chipstead station.

What concerns me is that I suspect that Network Rail only takes into account the risk of danger on their property. So if closing it forces people to walk on a road without a footpath that doesn't matter because it is not then their problem.
Another absorbing post!
Interestingly, Streetmap has an Osborne Road in that location, but the crossing is called Osbourne Road. I wonder if there is a story behind this discrepancy?
Sprout Eater - that would have been the path across the Lee Valley line at Pegamoid Road. A couple of lads died on the crossing there in 2006 which increased calls for it to be closed up, I think it has been for almost 10 years now. Was a handy cut through from Montagu Road (and buses) to the Eley industrial estate, but the risks presented with 80mph trains in such a busy built up area must have been seen as too high.
I love the view of the crossing at Woodhall.

What a lovely post altogether.

As a child my parents would take us along the footpath from Waddesdon to Quainton, which crossed a railway line, and Dad would put a copper on the line and we'd all search for it after the train had flattened it.
Of course, the reason these are so dangerous is because, unlike road level crossings, they are unsignalled.

It would be perfectly possible, if expensive, to display a white (or other) light when it is safe to cross. I strongly suspect no consideration whatsoever of foot crossings is taken into account when resignalling schemes are planned.
Disappointing that the Angerstein one will close after all, I'm with the local residents in querying this, considering how infrequent the freight trains are, and how slowly they travel.
Ever since watching a film when I was very little, where some children had their ears to the tracks to listen out for trains while walking the tracks (and the ensuing drama when one got their hand trapped as they heard the sound of a distant train approaching) to this day I still feel that thrill of danger when near level crossings!
The excellent Charlton Champion Website has the latest on the Angerstein Crossing.
Went to look at Pegamoid Road on Streetview - sure enough, there's a small memorial to the two people killed.
Another interesting post which I can identify with. Apart from Havering I’ve used Trumpers in West London. I’m not sure the residents of Cranham would appreciate being referred to as lower middle class though!!
There are three public footpath level crossings on the Greater London boundary, two just east of the M25 on the Southend line (Puddle Dock and Whipps Farmers - both officially in Brentwood) and one near Upper Warlingham (Riddlesdown Viaduct -officially in Surrey).
Readers may enjoy this thread on the SABRE forum about public footpaths which cross dual carriageways:
The Riddlesdown viaduct one is on quite the steepest footpath I know. Obviously footpaths don’t have gradient markers but it feels something like 50% or 1 in 2. The London Loop sensibly diverts via Riddlesdown Road (the bridle way end).
It should be Osborne Rd. and the crossing info spelling is incorrect.
Apparently the road is Osborne and the crossing Osbourne - like the great Harringey/Harringay debate, I suppose.
Haringey/Harringay debate !! (resident of both).
The trackbed of black plastic spikes - are known as "Witches Hats" in the trade - and are actually made of rubber. I can't believe I know that - but couldn't resist it as I've been studying level crossings (trade acronym 'LX') and railway trespass for quite a while now. You may also be interested in ALCRM, which is the model/formula that Network Rail use to assign risk level to each level crossing - and there's a publicly-available dataset in a spreadsheet (which you may have already used for this article) which has lots of geeky data in it.
Forty years or so ago, Upminster, Cranham, Brentwood etc. were the antithesis of "lower middle class", but that's progress for you....
On 15th June 2022 Network Rail were granted powers to close the crossings at Butts Lane and Woodhall Crescent, both of which were permanently locked on 30th June.

...but the Secretary of State decided that Eve's should stay open.

Looks like I got to two of the five just in time.










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