Fog and semaphores
Night-time fog over Banbury station with the old semaphore signals standing guard. This was January 1983 and much has changed - the goods shed on the left was demolished a few years later; most (but not quite all at the time of writing) of the signals were replaced by colour lights; and the fluorescent lights were replaced by sodium lights whose colour cast is orange.
One signal is "off" for a southbound train. Something else I have noticed is the platform end clock (the lollipop-like thing), and a single colour light signal on the right; how did that creep in?
Details: Taken in the days when you could wander all over the railway system, at least when nobody could see you! OM2, Kodachrome slide scan.
Explore ~79.
Fog and semaphores
Night-time fog over Banbury station with the old semaphore signals standing guard. This was January 1983 and much has changed - the goods shed on the left was demolished a few years later; most (but not quite all at the time of writing) of the signals were replaced by colour lights; and the fluorescent lights were replaced by sodium lights whose colour cast is orange.
One signal is "off" for a southbound train. Something else I have noticed is the platform end clock (the lollipop-like thing), and a single colour light signal on the right; how did that creep in?
Details: Taken in the days when you could wander all over the railway system, at least when nobody could see you! OM2, Kodachrome slide scan.
Explore ~79.