A former railway epoch
Looking down onto the railway and Westbury Station, Wiltshire, Tuesday 8th January 1974. Neither locomotive in the foreground could be identified. The "Peak" is hauling a train of what looks like road aggregate, probably from Merehead Quarry. How beautiful semaphore signals were, especially when massed around busy junction stations with lots of sidings and stabling for locomotives. Modern, efficient, labour-saving electric signals are about as beguiling as the traffic lights at a pedestrian crossing. On the Google Maps satellite view it looks as though all the land to the right of the stone train is now filled with the tin sheds and employees' parking of some sort of industrial estate.
A former railway epoch
Looking down onto the railway and Westbury Station, Wiltshire, Tuesday 8th January 1974. Neither locomotive in the foreground could be identified. The "Peak" is hauling a train of what looks like road aggregate, probably from Merehead Quarry. How beautiful semaphore signals were, especially when massed around busy junction stations with lots of sidings and stabling for locomotives. Modern, efficient, labour-saving electric signals are about as beguiling as the traffic lights at a pedestrian crossing. On the Google Maps satellite view it looks as though all the land to the right of the stone train is now filled with the tin sheds and employees' parking of some sort of industrial estate.