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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...
- Level crossing signals are electronic warning devices for road vehicles at railroad level crossings. Level crossings can be operated in various ways. In...
- personnel – that have involved Amtrak trains. (It does not include most grade crossing accidents and tresp****er strikes that did not cause significant injury...
- 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...
- train on Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line struck a p****enger car at a grade crossing on Commerce Street near Valhalla, New York, United States. Six people...
- contrast with an intersection, at-grade, a diamond crossing or a level crossing, which are not grade-separated. Roads with grade separation generally allow traffic...
- that the Park Street grade crossing be replaced with a bridge as part of a Works Progress Administration-funded grade crossing elimination program. It...
- wooden slats on the ground next to pedestrian track crossings, including vehicular grade crossings to deter tresp****ing as, so arranged, they present a...
- electric trains, to a point between the Park Avenue and Lake Road grade crossings. East of there, the line is single-track, with a double-ended freight...