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From either Chepstow or Gloucester follow the A48 to Blakeney follow the signposts towards Awre village. The road is narrow and windy so take care, but keep following for about three miles and eventually you will come to the crossing.

Easy to park at the crossing without being a danger or obstruction. You can go for hours with only seeing one or two passing cars.

Definitely not a location if you have not a car!

Back of beyond! No facilities nearby. But back on A48 there are garages with shops; also Lydney about 10-15 mins away has pubs, chip shops and major supermarkets.

Lydney or Chepstow would be the nearest places to find accommodation.

Wiltshire and Avon Gen

Good light. Excellent view of line from the crossing or footpath nearby looking towards Gloucester. The view towards Lydney slightly more restricted. The line curves and trains can come at you very fast round a bend. But you do get advance warning as the crossing operates.
An added bonus is down from road crossing. In next field is a footpath leading over line via a stile. This is unusual as the exit stile is not directly opposite. You can legally walk down the line to the exit style which is located a fair distance from the entry style back towards the signal box and road crossing. Possibly some good photographic opportunities here.

Watch the foot crossing up from the road crossing described. Even though its staggered and unusual as mentioned, its watched by a pair of CCTV cameras from Lydney box. I saw at least one photographer who trespassed and loitered from it get spotted causing trains to be stopped in both directions; even one train was instructed to stop completely and the driver tell the photographer to leave the line. This was followed up by a mobile network rail patrol.
Best only to take shots at the crossing stiles and not at the large expanses of ground beyond. Also the gate from behind the signal box to the crossing is not the path. The right away cuts across the track joining fields either side of the line. The box is covered by CCTV so any attempt to cut behind it to the path may have you misidentified as a vandal, trespasser or metal thief. Walk legally by using the path through the field over the road crossing on the left on the Awre Village side.

Purton