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Thanks to Peter Essex who added (March 2007): "This has reminded me of an incident I heard of, which I guess would have been in the middle to late 1950s, when my grandfather William Frank Essex suffered a slight heart attack while driving a Standard Vanguard which therefore ran into the wall of the signal box. Apparently the signalman heard the thud and come down and switched the engine off. My grandfather campaigned for there to be a pedestrian wicket gate at this level crossing and when he died (around 1960) I understand such a gate was installed each side of the line and had a plaque reading "The Essex Gates". I did once make enquiries at Norchard but was unable there to confirm that the gates or the plaque did exist or, of course, what may have happened to this curious (and what would nowadays probably be considered absurdly dangerous) memorial".
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