Pitsea Level Crossing Essex

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Official name: Pitsea Hall Level Crossing • Date filmed: Friday the 10th of November 2023 • Videos filmed between 13:37 and 14:38 • Route: London, Tilbury Southend Railway (Tilbury Loop) • Pitsea Station (Tilbury Loop only - Beside platforms 3 4) • Crossing type: Manually Controlled Barrier crossing with CCTV (MCB-CCTV) • Location: Pitsea Hall Lane, Pitsea • Trains featured: • Lowering 1 (0:00): • 357 323 (c2c) - 0:44 • 2D32 London Fenchurch Street ➡ Southend Central | 1 minute late • - • Lowering 2 (1:05): • 357 313 Upminster I.E.C.C. (c2c) - 1:40 • 2D51 Southend Central ➡ London Fenchurch Street | On-time • - • Lowering 3 (2:07): • 357 022 - (c2c) - 2:53 • 2D34 London Fenchurch Street ➡ Southend Central | On-time • - • Lowering 4 (3:21): • 69 003 The Railway Observer 69 007 Richard Trevthick Rail Head Treatment Train (GBRf) - 4:23 • 3S70 Broxbourne Down Tamper Siding GBRf ➡ Broxbourne Down Tamper Siding GBRf via East London Essex Thameside | 2 minutes early • - • Lowering 5 (Un-cut) (5:06): • 357 323 (c2c) - 6:12 • 2D53 Southend Central ➡ London Fenchurch Street | On-time • - • Lowering 6 (6:41): • 69 007 Richard Trevthick 69 003 The Rail Observer Rail Head Treatment Train (GBRf) - 7:27 • 3S70 Broxbourne Down Tamper Siding GBRf ➡ Broxbourne Down Tamper Siding GBRf via East London Essex Thameside | 1 minute early • - • Lowering 7 (8:24): • 357 018 Remembering our Fallen 88 1914 - 1918 (c2c) - 9:03 • 2D36 London Fenchurch Street ➡ Southend Central | On-time • An hour's worth of trains at this rather industrial-feeling level crossing located beside Platforms 3 and 4 of Pitsea Railway Station in Pitsea, a town on the outskirts of Basildon just outside of Southend-on-Sea. Local Tilbury Loop services operated by Class 357's are the most common featured trains in this video, with a special guest appearance from the daily Essex Thameside Rail Head Treatment Train from Broxbourne. It was staffed by two people including a rather friendly driver who both sounded the horn on the way in (right next to me causing me to jump a bit!) and waved from the platform, and Platform Three is actually where it turned around ready to treat the other line of the Tilbury Loop back towards Tilbury. It followed a Southend-bound local service in, and then followed a London-bound local service out, and is seen twice in this video, in reality passing the crossing just over ten minutes apart. • The crossing here is rather dirty and rusty as it is used by quite a lot of HGV traffic accessing various industrial areas over it. As those as well as the Wat Tyler Country Park are all that this road over the crossing leads to, the road over this crossing is actually not that busy, even though traffic always builds up during each lowering. The constant background traffic noise comes from the East London to Southend Route (the A13), and while this crossing is not literally right next to it like the other two just up the line are, the traffic noise still plagues this location. The alarms here are practically inaudible unless you're stood right underneath them, and they really could do with being at least a little louder. The road down towards this crossing on one side is downhill from a narrow bridge over the main lines through Basildon, which the Tilbury Loop joins on towards Southend at the other end of the station, so it's a little surprising the lights on that side aren't much higher up, really. It's not too clear what the reason for the cute little skeleton being placed behind one of the barriers here is either. • Crossing operations are done from Upminster I.E.C.C, but this time from the 'Southend' workstation rather than the dedicated Level Crossings one, I believe, and they appear to be very efficient, and the crossing wasn't once lowered for much over two minutes at most on my visit! One lasting only about 90 seconds completely has even been left un-cut! It's nice to see delay to road traffic being minimised for once, though this is as trains either need to be slowed down to join the main line or stop in the station anyway, and the timetable allows for that. Given the consistency of the 'strike-in' point(s) (moments at which the crossing is lowered in relation to the trains' locations), it suggests that an 'auto-lower' function is being used here. • Train details sourced from: • Real Time Trains: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/sear... • Open Train Times: https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps • Traksy: https://traksy.uk/live • Filmed on: Panasonic HC-VX1 in 4K 25fps • Thanks for watching!

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