How we built a level crossing in a town centre

摘要

It was October 2007 and Network Rail had decided to hold its annual retirement and long service day on the North Norfolk Railway. Hosting senior Anglia Region managers in a hotel bar the night before, NNR director Steven Ashling half-jokingly suggested laying a temporary track across the road at Sheringham and running a train over it as a bit of a stunt!rnIt was, he says, like asking a girl out for the first time. You do it while you have a drink in your hand so that the pain of rejection is masked by the alcohol.