CROSSING SIGNAL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 14

CROSSING SIGNAL

RAILWAY WARNING DEVICE INSTALLATION AT NEW LYNN A modern flash-light warning device has been installed by the Railway Department at the Portage Road crossing, New Lynn, which has been tho scene of several fatal accidents in recent years. The apparatus, which is considered to ! be of the most efficient type in use in ' the Dominion, consists of double lights, mounted on standards 10 feet high on either side of the crossing. The signal is entirely automatic, the lights being i set in action by the approach of a train ! n-quarter of a mile from the crossing. ! My Hashing intermittently and in a horizontal position, the signal gives the impression of a lamp being waved to and fro. The lights have |>owcrful lenses and flashing at the rate of approximately ;to times to the minute, the signal commands immediate attention. liven a careless motorist approaching the crossing on his wrong side is provided for in this latest apparatus. A small but powerful lens is placed in the rear of each standard thus throwing a beam visible from tho extreme right-hand side of the road. The signal is of a typo now regarded as standard equipment, said a railway expert yesterday. There is practically no part of its mechanism which is liable to give trouble and while being equally elfectivo as the well known wig-wag warning, requires less attention.