Infrastructure

Solar powered level crossing for remote locations

By 2014-08-14T13:11:00

V/Line has installed its first solar powered level crossing.

AUSTRALIA: V/Line has installed its first solar powered level crossing, at Huntly on the Bendigo – Echuca line in northern Victoria. The site is 1·2 km from the nearest power source, and digging trenches for underground power cables would be expensive and risk disturbing local flora.

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