"P50" wrote in message
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"John B" wrote in message
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"P50" wrote in message
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Similar set up has been installed at Essendon Airport recently. Only
instead of rail type boomgates there are full size gates.
No booms or gates - all done through the tower.

John B

Pretty sure there are gates there as well. There was the 4 times I was
there last week.
They were installed but not yet working. Also had amber beacons in place
on the gates.

It would be kind of silly to expect someone in the tower to trust and hope
that every vehicle does not cross because they so and not have some sort
of physical barrier as well.
P50

I was referring to the crossing at RAF Ballykelly in Nothern Ireland (my
contribution to the thread). The railway had absolute priority to that part
of the runway - UNLESS the tower could negotiate use. Inside the tower there
were bells and signals, fed from the railway signal box.

As a past Essendon Tower Controller, where are the boomgates installed?

John B