Police are searching for a driver who crashed into the level crossing barriers in Nantwich, knocking one of them off.
The incident involving a car happened at the London Road level crossing at around 8.40am today (April 16), says British Transport Police.
The A530 major route between Nantwich and Middlewich has re-opened after a five-month closure to revamp a railway bridge.
The “Boulderstones” road bridge which spans the railway between Crewe and Chester, had to undergo a major £5.7 million of works to make it safer for road users above and rail passengers below.
A Nantwich school headteacher has demanded an apology from Network Rail for using an image of its pupils taken more than two years ago to highlight rail safety.
The image, which we have chosen not to publish but has been shared widely, shows two former Brine Leas pupils in school uniform posing on a section of rail tracks between Nantwich station and London Road level crossing.
The busy A530 between Nantwich and Middlewich will close for up to four months from Monday for major railway bridge works.
Motorists are being warned of long delays to their journeys with diversion routes taking many around Crewe and back out if they want to get to Leighton Hospital.
Drivers are being warned of potential long delays as major road closures and works on and near the A530 Middlewich Road coincide over the next few months.
And many fear it will cause chaos for people and emergency vehicles trying to get to Leighton Hospital.
Nantwich drivers will be hoping the current works causing the closure of London Road do not overrun.
On the same day London Road is due to re-open – another busy Nantwich route, Wellington Road, will be closing!
Network Rail chiefs have issued another warning to Nantwich residents and rail passengers over the temporary closure of the busy Newcastle Road level crossing in January.
The closure, according to Network Rail, is to allow a team of engineers to perform “essential renewal work” to the crossing.
The level crossing on busy Newcastle Road in Nantwich is to close for nine days to allow for repairs.
Network Rail has given advance warning of the closure which will be in place from January 5 to 14.
Two rail workers have been injured in an incident at Cholmondeston railway bridge near Nantwich.
Cheshire Police, British Transport Police and Cheshire fire crews from Nantwich, Crewe and the major incident rescue unit from Winsford were called to the scene at 2.45am today (September 19).
A headteacher has warned Nantwich parents after school pupils were pictured walking down the main railway line as a short-cut to and from Brine Leas School.
These images show youngsters walking along the main Shrewsbury to Manchester line close to Stapeley Terrace in Nantwich.
A heartbroken goat abandoned under a viaduct near Shavington, refused to leave the side of his dead friend.
RSPCA officers were called to Basford by a Network Rail worker who spotted the goats under the viaduct.
Rail users in Nantwich and Crewe face travel problems this weekend – caused by the Champions League Final more than 150 miles away in Cardiff!
Arriva Trains Wales is severely reducing services between Wrenbury, Nantwich, Crewe and Manchester in a bid to cope with thousands of football fans flocking to the Welsh capital.
Crewe & Nantwich MP Edward Timpson has hailed the opening of the new Crewe Engineering & Design UTC.
The school aims to teach and develop a new generation of engineers, innovators, technicians and designers.
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