Zonnebeke Crossing / Devils Crossing

[ss002d6252]

I'm trying to locate which particular railway crossing is the one referred to as Zonnebeke Crossing (apparently later called Devils Crossing).Ive narrowed it to three locations but can anyone tie it down further ?

[Beselare]

Hi 002

If you look on a modern map of the area, travelling west out of Zonnbeke, at the edge of the village is a roundabout. This is the junction of the N332, the unclassified road leading north-east towards Tyne Cot, and the N.37 which is the line of the old railway. The roundabout is Devil's Crossing. (Trench Map ref. D.26.9.5.)

Bob

[ss002d6252]

Thanks Beselare, by my reckoning that makes it right by the 'Y' in Ypres on the map I posted.I can now tie in one end of the position Ive been after.

[Beselare]

Thanks Beselare, by my reckoning that makes it right by the 'Y' in Ypres on the map I posted.I can now tie in one end of the position Ive been after.

Yes, you are spot on - it's right on the Y.

Bob

[WilliamRev]

I'm sure that Bob is right - in the "Polygon Wood" phase of 3rd Ypres, 26th-28th Sept 1917, the Third Division faced fearful machine gun fire from Zonnebeke Station straight down the (completely wrecked) railway line, so the point where the road crossed the railway line was notoriously hazardous, and known as Devil's Crossing.

William