Re: Railways and Runways



On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:37:59 +0100, "Nick Pedley"
<nicholaspedley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You may have heard of Ryanair's latest mishap with an Airbus A320 landing at
the wrong airfield, Ballykelly Army Base which is 5 miles from Derry
Airport.

What you may not know is that Ballykelly is possibly the only airfield in
Europe, possibly even the whole world, where a railway crosses the
runway....
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/n.feist/Shack/Shack.htm

Anybody have other pictures of this or similar locations?

Nick

Eglin Airforce Base ( a Military Airfield with civilian facilities )
in the far west tip of Florida, has a railway track which passes
between the Airport Terminal Aprons and the runway (the longest in the
world, so I was informed).

Peter A

Montarlot
.



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