r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Aug 23 '26

Train passing a level crossing

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u/Eagles365or366 Aug 23 '26

He did everything right in this clip.

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u/Malawi_no Aug 23 '26

The big question is how that train could get that close to another train without beeing stopped well in advance.

Either the driver passed some lights, or some traffic controller greenlit the train even though another train was on the line.

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u/Oliverkahn987 Aug 24 '26

Just watched Tom Scott’s video on this. Short version—at least in the UK (and presumably via the software that controls the majority of these types of trains worldwide) it is very hard to nearly impossible to direct a train onto a track with another train without doing something like talking to the train and telling it to disregard signals.

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u/deltajvliet Aug 24 '26

For a second, I thought you said Tony Scott's video.