A user-worked crossing is one where the user opens and shuts the gates. These level crossings are also commonly known as accommodation crossings.

Every year many people are killed and injured in accidents at level crossings, simply because they fail to follow simple safety rules.

The attached booklet will give you the information you need to use your crossing safely. Contact details are also provided; please contact us if you require more information.

When using the crossing

It is the responsibility of the person using the crossing to:

• make sure that it is safe to cross and
• that railway traffic and other users of the railway are not put in any danger.
  

If you own rights over a crossing

If you are the owner of rights over a crossing, in other words, if the crossing gives you access to your property or your land:

• you have a responsibility to make sure that anyone who uses the crossing also keeps to the rules
• please remind your visitors, family or employees who use the level crossing that they must keep to the rules. You should also make sure that they do.
  

Requesting Permission

You must get our permission to cross the railway line if:

• You wish to drive unusually long, wide, low, heavy or slow vehicles across the railway or vehicles with dangerous substances, or
• If you plan on carrying out an activity such as grass harvesting or slurry spreading involving moving vehicles back and forth across the railway lines.

  
Contact Us

If you use a user worked crossing please contact us by emailing crossings@translink.co.uk or calling 02890 355 444 so that we can make you aware of safety information relating to the crossing.

Help us to make crossings safer by setting a good example and insisting that other users always keep to the rules.

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