This is a recreation of what I THINK Hixon Level Crossing looked like, but the only pictures I've seen are from 1968, after the crash, and even then most of the crossing was obscured by wreckage. You should click the green flag and the wait will be a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 5 minutes between trains. The train is a Class 81 (AL1) EMU, the same type that was written off here in 1968 (E3009). Note that I had to draw it and its carriages myself because there are no side-view pictures like I'm used to using. See how the time between the lights starting to flash and the train passing is only 24 seconds? That was one of the things they improved after the Hixon Rail Crash: it was extended to 32 seconds.
The backdrop came from Black-hawk125, which I then edited to have two tracks and a narrower road. Hixon Level Crossing in Staffordshire was installed in April 1967 and was infamous for the Hixon Rail Crash in January 1968 after a 120-tonne low-loader (travelling at just 2 mph) was struck by an express train on the West Coast Main Line travelling at 85mph. The crash, which killed eleven people, caused AHB (Automatic Half Barrier) crossings to be changed: new features included a preliminary amber light, 8 more seconds of warning time and a second approach sign with a clear warning to drivers of large or slow vehicles to use the telephone before crossing. The level crossing was replaced by a bridge in 2002. This means that of the three level crossings where there have been incidents where rail passengers have died - Hixon (1968), Lockington (1986) and Ufton (2004) - only Lockington remains - and it has changed from AOCR to AHBC-X. Hixon and Ufton were replaced by overbridges.
