Gisborne Airport: Runway With a Railway Crossing
Gisborne Airport is a small regional airport that is located on the
western outskirts of Gisborne, the East Coast of the North Island of New
Zealand. The airport is one of the very few airports in the world that
has a railway line intersecting the runway. The Gisborne airport which
covers a land of 160 hectares has three grass runways and one main
runway that is intersected by the Palmerston North - Gisborne Railway
Line. The Wynyard Airport, on Tasmania's north-western coast, also had a
railway crossing on the runway but declining rail traffic forced the
closure of rail traffic in early 2005, and thus the Wynyard airport rail
crossing is no more operational.
At Gisborne, on the other hand, the rail route functions actively and
so does the airport everyday between 6:30 in the morning and 8:30 at
night. After that, the runway is sealed off till morning. The railway
tracks splits the runway almost in the middle and very often trains or
aircraft are stopped until one of them moves on. It is a very
challenging task for the airport authorities to manage landing at the
intersecting runway along the operational rail route which has scheduled
departures and arrivals itself.
The airport
is a major link to enter the small region of Gisborne and hosts more
than 60 domestic flights. More than 150,0000 passengers fly through this
airport each year.
source : Amusing Planet
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