This railway crossing cuts the pedestrian precinct of Poole High Street in half. Poole Station is about 200 yards to the left of the image and when the barriers are lowered there is a narrow footbridge just to the right to cross over. National Rail, the company responsible for maintenance of the rail network want to close it due to the number of people who ignore the warning lights and run under the barriers as they are being lowered, and sometimes get trapped. The chap responsible for watching the CCTV of the crossing, was in the signal box at Poole Station. However, that signal box has now been removed, and the chap that now monitors the crossing is at Basingstoke, 60 miles away. They have yet to decide, whether to replace the crossing with an underpass, or overpass, if they decide to remove it at all.