This looks like an Australian railway. The road traffic lights are interconnected with the railway crossing lights and get a indication from the railway controls about the same time as a 'next train coming' indication for the traffic light to stop their cycle and put all lights back to red to hold the traffic. Therefore the road traffic lights will never show a green when the level crossing lights are flashing.
In my understanding they are used over normal railway crossing lights where there is a road intersection close to the crossing where traffic can easily be controlled to a stop around the crossing using the road traffic light cycles, and therefore cars wanting to turn right at that intersection on the photo will never queue across the level crossing.
Hope this helps
Laura
Looking at those photos again I think that is Geebung station, one of the northern suburbs of Brisbane, QLD and down the road from where I live!
An aerial view of Geebung Level Crossing
http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.368969,15...d=20110323
In my understanding they are used over normal railway crossing lights where there is a road intersection close to the crossing where traffic can easily be controlled to a stop around the crossing using the road traffic light cycles, and therefore cars wanting to turn right at that intersection on the photo will never queue across the level crossing.
Hope this helps
Laura
Looking at those photos again I think that is Geebung station, one of the northern suburbs of Brisbane, QLD and down the road from where I live!
An aerial view of Geebung Level Crossing
http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.368969,15...d=20110323