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There are manual crossing, automatic half-barriers and unguarded crossings. The sequence of operation at an automatic half-barrier level crossing may be that the train strikes treadles and shorts a track circuit 1000 yards from the crossing, whereupon red lights flash to stop the traffic: after 8 seconds the barriers start to fall and reach the horizontal position 16 seconds after initiation. 5 Britain 1961-67 Manual Half-barrier Unguarded Europe 1964-67 Half barriers France Germany Holland Accidents at level crossings Number of crossings Number of persons killed per year 3 398 205 16 609 8 14 2 215 410 345 24 16 23 I Intercity Transport 52 The statistics relating to automatic crossings in Holland show that the traffic movement (road vehicles per day x trains per day) is exceptionally high, 3 million.
In 1919 Alcock and Brown flew across the A tan tic in an aircraft in 16 hours, and the London- Paris, London- Brussels and Amsterdam air routes began. In 1929 Imperial Airways opened a route from Genoa via Cairo, Baghdad, Karachi to Delhi, called the India Service. In 1932 a route from London to Cape Town was started, the African Service, travelling via Paris, Athens, Alexandria, Nairobi and Johannesburg, a total of8000 miles in 11 days. In the same year Air France opened a route from Paris to Hanoi; 15 000 km in 5 days.
3 Ship casualities in Japan and number of passengers and crew killed in Japanese waters (1973) Ship casualities Operational mistakes Mishandling of machinery Structural defects Passenger/crew losses Overboard Wound Disease 1231 478 326 99 46 32 Force majeure Mishandling of fire Bad loading Suicide Others 249 138 97 77 35 excluding fishing 323 in 1973 Statistics for 1955-60 show 2749 collisions at sea around the world, 72 per cent of which occurred in piloted waters. Of the 28 per cent in open sea, 608 were found in North European and Mediterranean Seas.