airfields with public roads through them

During wwii all the public roads through military bases were closed.

Ive never been to Manston, but having worked with people who were stationed there I can say it was different to most RAF bases.

I think there is a danger of this thread being blurred, most airfields would have had roads crossing them, but were completely sealed of by the time they became operational. Indeed some airfields even used local roads as an initial basis for the runway, taxiways and actually used as station roads.
Think we need to stick to airfields that definately had a public road crossing through them through out most of their operational life.

At the risk of a bit of blurring.....Cranfield had a public footpath (controlled by traffic lights) Does it still? I remember watching as a black labrador crossed the airfield, staying nicely on the path and reporting it to the SATCO "that`s OK, he`s got a dispensation" came the reply.

Hamble had a railway line crossing the apron...set into the surface much like tramlines.

Sorry for blurring.

Wow, im supprised there were so many built with public roads bisecting them. I guess during the war there was little concern about public roads, they just closed them. The A30 through Blackbushe was closed until early 1946 when transport command vacated the site. About 500ft of runway 01 was south of the A30 but this runway was never used post war.
manston striked me as one of the strangest airports I have ever been to. Was the north grass field used for anything else but gliding? Last time I was there there was a 747-200 ending its days on that side.
The road through BA maintenance at LHR was closed about 3 years ago. The diversion is now very long!

Does a train line count??

Wynyard (aka Burnie) in Tasmania had a train line crossing an active runway, up until they closed said runway (the 'disused' bit in this ERSA extract: airservicesaustralia.com/publications/pe...YWYY_12-Mar-2009.pdf ) a couple of years ago.

And I believe there used to be a train line running through Sydney Airport - I seem to remember a story about a close encounter between a train and a DC-3 some years ago. The railway has since been re-routed outside the boundary.

There was a railway line crossing the runway at Havana, Cuba, almost at the halfway point. When you landed or on the take off run, you could feel the bumb in the runway where the railway was - I think the tracks are still there!

And ofcourse there's the railway crossing one of Ballykelly's runway's. Is this also blurring?

Hugo.

hugoj_air wrote:

And ofcourse there's the railway crossing one of Ballykelly's runway's. Is this also blurring?
Hugo.

No, just compketely off topic for an airfield/road thread!

Actually I was going to mention Ballykelly myself!