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Definition of Grade crossing

Grade crossing
Grade Grade, n. [F. grade, L. gradus step, pace, grade, from gradi to step, go. Cf. Congress, Degree, Gradus.] 1. A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour. They also appointed and removed, at their own pleasure, teachers of every grade. --Buckle. 2. In a railroad or highway: (a) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264. (b) A graded ascending, descending, or level portion of a road; a gradient. 3. (Stock Breeding) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. Down grade, a descent, as on a graded railroad. Up grade, an ascent, as on a graded railroad. Equating for grades. See under Equate. Grade crossing, a crossing at grade.

Meaning of Grade crossing from wikipedia

- Other names include railway level crossing, railway crossing (chiefly international), grade crossing or railroad crossing (chiefly American), road through...
- over them. This requires level crossings. At-grade railways may run along the median of a highway. The opposite is grade-separated. There may be overp****es...
- accidents that occur at a level crossing; in other words, this list only includes railway accidents that occur at-grade and not separated from other traffic...
- personnel – that have involved Amtrak trains. (It does not include most grade crossing accidents and tresp****er strikes that did not cause significant injury...
- Level crossing signals are electronic warning devices for road vehicles at railroad level crossings. Level crossings can be operated in various ways. In...
- The Gilchrest Road crossing accident was a grade crossing incident that occurred on March 24, 1972, in the town of Clarkstown, New York, between the hamlets...
- dial-up grade crossing systems at grade crossings that are located closest to the stations. This system allows train crews to manually activate grade crossing...
- 80159 The Billups Neon Crossing Signal was an experimental grade crossing signal installed at a dangerous Illinois Central crossing on Mississippi Highway...
- wooden slats on the ground next to pedestrian track crossings, including vehicular grade crossings to deter tresp****ing as, so arranged, they present a...
- center. In the 1890s, Brockton was the site of the state's first major grade crossing elimination program, which included the construction of a m****ive stone...