The One-Lane Bridge Shared By Cars And Trains

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The Whittier tunnel in Alaska does a similar thing, but for much longer (2.5mi / 4.1km long). You used to be able to walk though it once a year, but I haven't heard about it recently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_Glacier_Highway#Anton_Anderson_Memorial_Tunnel
http://www.dot.state.ak.us/creg/whittiertunnel/index.shtml

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Bitch, I'm comin' through out the way

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That is cool!

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Reminds me of BechynΔ› Rainbow bridge, except the road is two-lane so only one side has to stop but it's still interesting nonetheless.

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The daily dosis Tom Scott is always good

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This is surprisingly informative

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In New Zealand, one-lane bridges are a common enough thing that tourists are warned about them. The rules are simple. Approach with care, go slowly, and if there's someone coming the other way then sometimes there are signs that'll tell you who has priority. There is an exception to that rule in just a couple of places, though, which is that, regardless of what those signs say... [train horn] always let the train go first. - Dunedin Railways started operating in the 1990s and we run a tourist train business. We cart about 80-90,000 passengers a year. The route is 154km return from Dunedin and follows a river gorge up through the Taieri River up onto the Strath Taieri plain. The scenery is spectacular, how they built it. They started in 1879, it was completed in 1891, all by hand. It is a challenging route. It's really up and down. - Just to be clear, this isn't a tram, or a trolley bus, or light rail, this is an actual train running on the street here, because that was a better option than trying to build a second bridge on a very quiet road. Technically, I guess this is just a very strangely shaped level crossing? And there are a few other bridges like this around the world, but almost all of them have lights and sirens and barriers to keep cars separated when there's a rain approaching. Here, you just take care and listen out for the train horn. - When the road bridge further up the river failed, they made the rail bridge a road bridge. There used to be a lot more in the country. It was a cheap option, why build two bridges when you can build one? They were mainly built in less populated areas because trains and cars don't usually combine very well(!) so you wouldn't build them in the cities. But the cars just have to follow the road rules. There's stop signs at either end of the bridge and you don't do line speed going up onto a road-rail bridge, you're doing 10kph, blowing the whistle and all that sort of thing. Hindon Road-Rail Bridge is really there only to give access to two sheep stations, so there's not that much traffic on it. Rarely you come across a car anyway. The train is going at a speed that it can stop pretty easily, and usually the cars have to back up. We've never had a problem on a road-rail bridge. Level crossings are worse.
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Channel: Tom Scott
Views: 1,384,628
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Keywords: tom scott, tomscott, one-lane bridge, level crossing, grade crossing, road-rail bridge, new zealand, dunedin railways, hindon, amazing places
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Length: 2min 26sec (146 seconds)
Published: Mon Jun 10 2019
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