This isn't intended to be a rant but more a curiosity:
Yesterday when I was travelling home around 10 pm through Horsham (West Sussex) I was cycling along Parsonage Road which has a light and barrier controlled level crossing about half way along. Sods law was in effect and the lights started flashing when I was about 100 meters away so I stopped and waited, and waited, and waited. It was a good five minutes after the barriers had descended before a train came past in the direction of Horsham. I don't know how many here are familiar with the network in that very localised area but I am curious as to why there was such a long delay between barriers and train. Are the barriers activated when a train is approaching Faygate or is it simply that this train stopped at Littlehaven (which is close by) and the trigger is prior to that station?
Yesterday when I was travelling home around 10 pm through Horsham (West Sussex) I was cycling along Parsonage Road which has a light and barrier controlled level crossing about half way along. Sods law was in effect and the lights started flashing when I was about 100 meters away so I stopped and waited, and waited, and waited. It was a good five minutes after the barriers had descended before a train came past in the direction of Horsham. I don't know how many here are familiar with the network in that very localised area but I am curious as to why there was such a long delay between barriers and train. Are the barriers activated when a train is approaching Faygate or is it simply that this train stopped at Littlehaven (which is close by) and the trigger is prior to that station?