Date: 01/04/2011

Barriers could soon be erected at open train level crossings in the Highlands to improve safety for motorists, it emerged yesterday.

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Maintenance and testing of warning lights and audible alarm being carried out at Bridge Street open level crossing, Halkirk, on 28 August 2007. View is northeast towards Georgemas Junction over the site of the former Halkirk station (closed 1960) which stood just beyond the crossing. Three occupants of a car tragically died as a result of a collision with a train on this crossing in September 2009.
Location: Halkirk
Company: Sutherland and Caithness Railway
28/08/2007 John Furnevel

158708 on the level crossing over the A835 about to run into Garve station during a downpour on 1 October 2009. The train is the 1443 Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness.
Location: Garve
Company: Dingwall and Skye Railway
01/10/2009 John Furnevel

An Inverness-bound freight passes through the open level crossing at Bunchrew in 1970. Bunchrew was one of some 16 wayside stations on the Far North Line whose closure (in June 1960) pre-dated the Beeching era. This is also the location where a Network Rail employee had a narrow escape when his car collided with a train in May 2008 (see news items).
Location: Bunchrew
Company: Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
//1970 David Spaven