Oh dear, what are we to do - cry or laugh is about all I can think of. But maybe someone should point out the error of their ways! https://twitter.com/Prof...2884860311699456/photo/1

Unfortunately I suspect it isn't an April Fool. More likely someone following a standard operating procedure without thinking about it.

I think that is right- I like the way that the hose protecting strip is carefully lined up with the train tracks. Very neat and very tidy. These guys have done the training.

That's got to be a wind up or a joke.

It works for me, and I'm not and have never been a twitter user (at least, not before I clicked this link, I guess I've used it now). It's a photo of a fire engine hose across some train tracks.

I have just made a discovery! When I am in Internet Explorer, I don't see the picture, when I am in Firefox I do!!

Is this a rules based error?

I'm pretty sure it's not a disused line - the rails are too shiny. I don't think it's the UK - the traffic sign doesn't look like a standard UK one, and a UK open level crossing has a give-way sign, which this doesn't. Unfenced railways are vanishingly rare in the UK, especially in urban areas. A UK fire engine would have saturn yellow in its hazard markings on the rear, and would have a yellow registration plate. I'm also in two minds about the track gauge. If it's not UK, I have no idea what the rules are about line blocks, and it may very well be that there's a simple system for stopping trains.