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Other names include railway level crossing, [1] railway crossing (chiefly international), grade crossing or railroad crossing (chiefly American), [2] road through railroad, criss-cross, train crossing, and RXR (abbreviated). There are more than 100,000 level crossings in Europe and more than 200,000 in North America.
Number of level crossings in selected UNECE countries Source UNECE. [3]Member country Number of level crossings Belarus: 1,746 Greece: 1,263 Poland: 12,801
A level junction (or in the United Kingdom a flat crossing) is a railway junction that has a track configuration in which merging or crossing railroad lines provide track connections with each other that require trains to cross over in front of opposing traffic at grade (i.e. on the level).
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The time interval may be controlled by a level crossing predictor, an electronic device which is connected to the rails of a railroad track, and activates the crossing's warning devices (lights, bells, gates, etc.) at a consistent interval prior to the arrival of a train at a level crossing. [1]
In the Show-Me state, the total amount of funding for safety improvements at public crossings is about $7.5 million annually — $6 million from the federal government and roughly $1.5 million ...
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