Hixon rail crash
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On 6 January 1968, a low-loader transporter carrying a 120-ton electrical transformer was struck by a British Rail express train on a recently installed automatic level crossing at Hixon, Staffordshir
Aerial photo of crash scene from accident inquiry; south is at the top. The transporter was crossing from west to east, the train approached from the north.
The site of the accident in 1995. The level crossing has now been replaced with a bridge with the sections of road either side of the railway kept as cul-de-sacs.
A Class AL1 locomotive similar to the one involved in the accident, 1979
A level crossing in Lincolnshire, showing the improved signage introduced from 1969. This crossing also has an additional warning sign regarding the risk of long vehicles being grounded.
Lockington rail accident
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In Lockington, England on 26 July 1986, the 09:33 passenger train from Bridlington to Kingston upon Hull on the Hull to Scarborough Line struck a passenger van on a level crossing.
Hixon rail crash
…introduction of an automatic crossing with only the warning lights, known as an Automatic Open Crossing (AOCR). However, history repeated itself in the Lockington rail accident of 1986, which involved a newly installed AOCR. The level crossing at Hixon was replaced in 2002 by a bridge costing £2 million…
Lockington rail crash