LEVEL CROSSINGS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 13

LEVEL CROSSINGS.

•£0 THE EDITOB. Or "THE ZSESS." Sir,—The recent fatality at Burn ham brings up once more the question of the protection of railway crossings. The Railway Department leaves country crossings entirely unprotected, with the exception of a, warning fcign placed some yards each sidb of the lines. The Department takes up the attitude that if it provides the sign, ''Stop!, Look Out for the Engine!" on a small board at a certain distance from the lines, it then has a perfect right to rush a heavy train at 45 miles an hour over a street crossing. The Goverment, for the Government is really responsible, should be told plainly that this sign is uot sufficient. Some other way of protecting country crossings is absolutely necessary. Where the crossing is in close proximity to a station, as is the case at Burnbam, it ought to be a simple, matter for a station hand to be told off to guard the crossing for the few times each dav that trains pass such crossings. Such a course would not entirely solve the question, but would be a help in that direction.—Yours etc., SAFER CROSSINGS.