Rovie level crossing

Client: First Engineering

Services Provided
Rovie Level crossing is in Scotland on the line between Inverness and Wick. Due to concerns for safety at the crossing, Network Rail were requested to improve existing arrangements.

The site was suitable for conversion to an 'Automatic Open Crossing Locally Monitored' (AOCL). This required a complete upgrade of the road arrangements and highway signing, the provision of flashing road signals for the public and lineside signals for train drivers.

Corus were contracted to design the signalling, circuits and engineering plans associated with replacing the existing gated crossing operated by local users, to an automatic operated crossing, and also draft the appropriate legal documentation, known as the Level Crossing Order.

Design work commenced in November 1999, and was produced to ensure optimum safety and operational requirements. Staging of work also had to be considered to minimise disruption to the existing site during installation of new arrangements, and environmental issues were another important feature of the scheme.

The new level crossing was successfully commissioned in April 2000.