Re: [VIC] New Level crossing bells

["Daniel Bowen" <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au>]

Sounds like it might be the same as the new ones in Union Street, Brunswick,
on the Upfield line. They remind me a bit of (some) British ones, which are
very quiet once the booms have been lowered.


Daniel
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"Samuel Eades" <seades@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
tLrF5.3193$wG1.9242@news-server.bigpond.net.au">news:tLrF5.3193$wG1.9242@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> On the Clarke St Level crossing, at the down end of Merri station (Epping
> line) the level crossing has a new type of bell that I have never seen or
> heard on any other level crossing.
> The bell casing itself is cylindrical, and flush with the post. There is
no
> sign of the actual bell, but there are a lot of little holes on the
> cylinder.
> The noise that it makes is a lot lower than other level crossings I have
> heard, it is almost as if the level crossing is playing too slowly!!
> Are there any more of these around and is there any reason for the low
pitch
> of the bells?
>
> --
> Sam Eades
> seades@bigpond.net.au
>
>