Not wishing to tempt fate but it’s been a while since any failure of the level crossing barriers in Spalding.
Let’s hope the Network Rail problem we were forced to tolerate for months on end is actually resolved for good.
Now, on to the time that we sit at the barriers when they are working ordinarily and down.
At Winsover Road it can be about four minutes before the train begins to pass through. Not a huge amount of time in our lives but just long enough to niggle you into thinking: “Was that long actually necessary?”
If you’ve ever been delayed at the Swineshead Bridge crossing on the A17, you’d have noticed a difference. In fact, it feels almost wrong to describe it as a delay. No sooner have the warning lights started flashing, the barriers started lowering and you’ve muttered some frustration at being “caught” again than the train has passed through and the barriers are on their way back up.
All done in less than a minute.
So if it can be done on a much busier route, why are we whiling away so much of our lives in queues at Winsover Road, Park Road, Hawthorn Bank and Woolram Wygate?
Perhaps it’s wishful thinking that it could be less time. Maybe I ought to be just content that they now go up and down without hours in between.
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