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Level crossing   /lˈɛvəl krˈɔsɪŋ/   Listen
Level crossing

noun
1.
Intersection of a railway and a road on the same level; barriers close road when trains pass.  Synonym: grade crossing.






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"Level crossing" Quotes from Famous Books



... early days of railways, the signal of alarm was given by the blowing of a horn. In the year, 1833, an accident occurred on the Leicester and Swannington railway near Thornton, at a level crossing, through an engine running against a horse and cart. Mr. Bagster, the manager, after narrating the circumstance to George Stephenson, asked "Is it not possible to have a whistle fitted on the engine, which ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various

... ammunition before he was permitted to retain possession of them. At length, however, the Customs barrier was successfully negotiated; and then Dick in one rickshaw, Grosvenor in another, and their baggage in a third, the two friends proceeded in triumph along the bush-bordered road, over the level crossing of the railway, and so up Smith Street to the Royal Hotel, where they purposed to put up for a day or two, and where, upon their arrival, they joined their fellow passengers at a hilarious second breakfast in accordance with an arrangement ...
— The Adventures of Dick Maitland - A Tale of Unknown Africa • Harry Collingwood

... station is on one level, and the rails are flush with the spot from which you climb into the car. Overhead bridges or subways are practically unknown; and the arriving passenger has often to cross several lines of rails before reaching shore. The level crossing is, perhaps, inevitable at the present stage of railroad development in the United States, but its annual butcher's bill is so huge that one cannot help feeling it might be better safeguarded. Richard Grant White tells how he said to the station-master ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead



Words linked to "Level crossing" :   crossing, carrefour, crossroad, intersection, crossway



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