On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 01:33:40 +0000, Charles Ellson    
   wrote:   
      
      
   >>The CTA has numerous grade crossings with overrunning BARE (no top   
   >>cover) third rail.  The are on the Pink (ex Douglass Park), Brown   
   >>(Ravenswood), Yellow (Skokie) and Purple (EVanston) lines.  The   
   >>ex-Southern Region in England has numerous grade crossings with   
   >>overrunning third rail.   
   >>   
   >You can't just walk up to it (the SR version or similar elsewhere in   
   >ENG), there is usually an anti-trespass device made of multiple   
   >sections of angle-cut wood making it hard to walk away from a   
   >road/footpath toward the third rail :-   
      
   In contrast the French still have a couple of Metre gauge third rail   
   lines in some mountanous areas .  Much of the routes are unfenced and   
   at times can almost be covered with snow even though the live rail is   
   relatively high.  This how they handle a crossing.   
   http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Meter-gauge_r   
   ilway_with_third_rail_in_Les_Praz-de-Chamonix,_France.jpg   
   Somewhere on the net there used to a pic of an electrified siding that   
   the photographer almost tripped over as it was buried in yard deep   
   undergrowth reached with no fencing at all.   
      
   G.Harman   
      
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