What is an automatic railway level crossing?

once arriving Trains are detected by IR sensors, when the sensors receive the train signal, the signal light turns red and the crossing level gate is closed and the warning signal (buzzers) will be played, the train crosses the railway line again each time the IR sensor detects the train of the train and after this it ...



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