Crossing Failure. Is what I intend to do correct?

A crossing failure is automatically generated when the crossing is kept down for a long time, in this case triggered by the TCF. This means that there might be traffic trying to bypass the barriers as they have been waiting for a long time. In real life such a crossing would need police attendance to allow safe operation of the railway but this is not simulated.

SimSig does not simulate other types of crossing failures.

Albert in post 137567 said:

A crossing failure is automatically generated when the crossing is kept down for a long time, in this case triggered by the TCF. This means that there might be traffic trying to bypass the barriers as they have been waiting for a long time. In real life such a crossing would need police attendance to allow safe operation of the railway but this is not simulated.

SimSig does not simulate other types of crossing failures.

No it wouldn't, during a failure of an AHB a Level Crossing Attendant (LXA) would be appointed who will take the crossing under local control. Until the LXA is on site drivers of trains will be instructed to approach the crossing at caution, and pass over it only when safe to do so.

3.6 Local control when the operation of the crossing is immediately affected

You must arrange for local control to be taken at an AHBC as soon as possible if any of the following happen.

• A failure of the equipment affects the normal operation of the crossing.
• A train fails within the crossing controls.
• The normal flow of road traffic over the crossing is affected by emergency roadworks or a road-traffic incident close to the crossing.

You must arrange for the civil police to be told.

No police officer has the authority to direct road traffic to cross a railway.

They can only divert road traffic away.

As a member of the "civil police", whatever that is, I can confirm we would not generally attend and would leave in the hands of the railway authorities or at a push BTP (who incidently are also civil so not sure what the "civil police" actually means - wierd phrase). (We are informed of course)

We would not get involved in traffic control unless there was serious ongoing danger (idiots ignoring the red lights etc) and then it would be blocking the road to prevent loss of life but as I say we would be looking to leave it to the railway authorities or BTP pretty quickly so we can crack on with general policing. For info no-one from the emergency services has authority to go across a level crossing with red lights flashing (barriers up or down). Its an absolute offence and pretty stupid - this includes blue light runs. If on an emergency call we will wait like everyone else if the red lights are on (probably getting to front of queue but nothing more). Most emergency drivers will avoid level crossings if at all possible to avoid the potential of being delayed and go via an alternative route if at all possible.

They are all 'civilian police' forces so intrigued to know how BTP came to be known as non-civil within railway circles. Very odd.

The modern British Transport Police was formed by the British Transport Commission Act 1949[14] which combined the already-existing police forces inherited from the pre-nationalisation railways by British Railways, those forces having been previously formed by powers available under common law to parishes, landowners and other bodies to appoint constables to patrol land and/or property under their control.[citation needed] This is distinct from the establishment of a police force by statute, as applicable to the Metropolitan Police in 1829; BTP did not have jurisdiction on a statutory basis until the enactment of the Transport Police (Jurisdiction) Act 1994,[15] which was subsequently amended by the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003.[16]

The Railways Act 1921 amalgamated over one hundred separate railway systems (of which about 20 had organised police forces) into four groups:

The Great Western Railway
The London and North Eastern Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The Southern Railway

Each had its own police force controlled by a chief of police. These four forces were organised in the same way; each split into a number of divisions headed by a superintendent, divided into a number of divisions posts led by an inspector. Detectives worked with their uniformed colleagues at most locations. Many 'non-police' duties were retained however, with officers acting as crossing keepers or locking and sealing wagons.[citation needed]

As an extension question to this subject:

An AHB shows a failure indication while a train is passing, about pass, or has just passed it, normally a slower class of train which forces the barriers down for "too long". would the signals protecting the other line still need to be replaced, or would the first train be allowed to clear (and in likelihood clear the failure). Theres a bias not to act in Simsig world as we know 100% the AHB hasn't actually failed, but I'm curious if anything needs to happen in real life.