He is among the latest to be accused of jumping the red light but in his case he was leaving, not entertering, the crossing.

That experience, and waiting for a phantom train that never arrived, has left him convinced there is something seriously wrong.

On Wednesday, November 7 Mr Simpson, 57, of Tower Street, Flamborough, a driver for TD Travel, on Carnaby Industrial estate was taking his 40ft, 53-seater coach out on the school run.

At 7.13am he was waiting at the head of the queue for the crossing barriers to rise. The train came and went, the lights stopped flashing, the barriers went up and he set off.

Within seconds the warning lights came on, the rear of his coach had not fully cleared the crossing and he was flashed by the camera as the barrier lowered behind him.

"It can only have been a matter of four or five seconds since they had previously been raised, which is hardly ignoring the warning lights," said Mr Simpson, who has to cross the crossing several times a day and is aware of the risk.

The previous day he and other drivers had an equally strange experience.

At 6.45am on his way to work, he saw the same thing happen to another driver but this time when the barriers came down he and about a dozen others waited between six and seven minutes before the barriers went up – but no train had passed through.

"I would love to know if one ever came after I was flashed the following day but I didn't hang around to find out," he said.

A quick check with Northern Rail's timetable for the Hull to Scarborough line shows that at 6.45am on Tuesday, the day he said no second train came, there was only one train, from Bridlington to Hull, which would have gone through Carnaby at 6.45am.

At 7.13am on Wednesday, the day he was flashed on the crossing, a Hull train left Bridlington at 7.12am and would have passed through Carnaby around 7.13am but there were no other trains scheduled.

A spokesman for Network Rail pointed out that other traffic such as goods or maintenance vehicles also used the track and said: "We have no reports of any faults with the crossing at Carnaby.

"However we will download the data log for this crossing and investigate these alleged incidents.

"It is vital tpeople use level crossings correctly. We understand that waiting for the barriers to lift can be frustrating but the systems are in place to protect lives and are entirely safe if used correctly."

TD Travel has not received a summons or a warning over the incident but has had problems with drivers being caught on camera before.

Jean Crossland's husband Tony is managing director of TD Travel, whose fleet of 41 vehicles all pass over the crossing every day.

She said: "Four of our drivers have been summonsed during the past four or five weeks.

"They all regularly use the crossing and know there is so little time to stop yet they have still been caught out.

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