>That set Mitcham road to Express and the gates were all ready down before
>the train even got to the platform.
As someone who lives at Mitcham, this appears to be the normal
situation. For down trains the gates came down long before the train
arrives at the station. There doesn't appear to be a 'stopping'
operation of the Mitcham Road gates ever.
>With a train like this maybe they should set the conditions of the gates warning
>time to express or stopping manually.
Agreed. However, since I believe this is the only express train on
the line, maybe it doesn't make economic sense to add the circuitry -
except of course for Mitcham were all down trains seem to be treated
like an express.
Cheers...JD
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