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I've been contemplating uploading this shot for a while now. I wasn't sure at first but have grown to love the texture and simplicity of it.
"The Europen Prohobo Tour 2012" with Nikon Morris, Host, Stijn Brands, Pierre Soff and Ro Mo.
Police, Paintballers and exhaustion couldn't break us!!
I thought I was taking a picture of a phone box but when I looked inside it had a cash machine!
Borough Market, London.
The abandoned trailer across the street seems to be a fun source for photos. This box spring is on the back porch.
NJT F40PH-2CAT 4119 leads Montclair-Boonton Line train 1003 past the Lackawanna-built Boonton Station, which now serves as a restaurant while the current platform is further west.
These boxes from Edwardian times and containing tableware - fancy fish cutlery and servers, cake forks etc, etc. - have been passed down from my wife's grandparents. They have survived being blitzed in WW2 in West Kensington, London and a variety of moves around Southern England. They have been safely tucked away with us for over 30 years and we are considering their future as they are hopelessly out of fashion. In the meanwhile they languish in an untidy little stack.
Also associated with the 1940 West Kensington time is an eye-witness letter from my wife's aunt when she was fourteen years old in 1940 written during and immediately after a bombing raid. A very powerful document indeed that still affects us both whenever we read it.
Group shot!
The Kumabolo N faces are rather faded/light compared to my usaggie ones. I think it's because they're darker in general. But it still photographs really nicely so I'm not complaining.
A few long term rail contacts on Flickr will know that for many years my dad has been looking for an image of this signal box. It was the first place he worked and no matter where he looked or who I spoke with we couldn't find a photo of the box. Everything changed this week. Not just one picture but two came to light. This one was purchased by dad and shows the box and an unknown entourage at some point prior to the Great War.
The box was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1893 and closed by British Railways in 1970. I will let dad supply a few additional notes.
Signalmen were: Clifford Dickinson, Arthur Burton and Bill Humphreys, working three shifts in turn, 6.0 am to 2.0 pm, 2.0 pm to 10.0 pm and 10.0 pm to 6.0 am, days, afternoons and nights, Monday to Saturday, starting a new shift every Monday. The branch line to Castleford and Methley did not operate on Sunday. Train register lads: John Firth and Keith Matthews, working days and afternoon shift alternate weeks.
The box controlled the up and down main and goods lines to and from London to Leeds, the branch line to and from Methley, the East and West line to Robin Hood, the Lofthouse colliery sidings lines and the goods yard at Outwood. Quite busy at times.
I have a recollection of a then, circa 1954, experimental diesel unit testing on the Methley to Leeds line, it deliberately stopped on the steepest part of the 1 in 49 uphill gradient near the junction with the main line, then set off again with no problems. Steam engines often needed a ‘banker’ engine at the rear to assist them up the incline. My signalman friend remarked, “Well John that’s thefuture, we won’t need steam engines when these take over”.
Train register lads duties were: recording, the exact time of all bell contacts relating to the passage of each train in the registers, (eight entries per train). There were different bell codes for each type of train, a light engine was 2-3 rings, an express passenger train 4 bells, etc. Other duties were receiving and transmitting Morse code telegraph messages, telephoning Leeds Central Control with times of VIP trains, etc. Non clerical duties included keeping the box clean and levers polished, washing the many windows, emptying the chemical toilet and burying it behind the box. Plus the unofficial task of operating the box whilst the signalman had his breakfast or tea. Happy days.
Signal box (1910) at Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen in Bochum, Germany.
This signal box was originally installed at the Köln-Mühlheim goods yard in 1910. It remained in use at this location until the 1970s and was transfered and restored at the museum at Dahlhausen. This included the re-construction of the corrugated iron cladding which had been destroyed in a fire and the rebuilding of the control apparatus.
In the case of war and other situations it is often true that it's ever so easy to get in, and so very difficult to get out.
This room box is made of mdf & formex and pieces of woods.
Link to my doll room box posting – blog.naver.com/deeplycrash/80148421727
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Gift Box topped with a double Multiform flower. 2 piece. Flower is red and green paper. Pyramid box is green and light green.
Railway stations, yards, junctions etc and sections of line between certain locations (called blocks) with complex track work and/or safe working (signalling) systems were usually provided with signal boxes or cabins from which staff worked levers and instruments that controlled all this apparatus. They were busy and fascinating places to watch trains being worked by old fashioned mechanical means.
These days, most of the signal boxes have been centralised and computerised, sometimes replaced by rationalised and simplified installations.
That Chinchilla on the Darling Downs had one indicates a busy and challenging layout. Rationalisation of the whole line and far fewer trains means Chinchilla is but a shadow of its former self. It's fairly large signal box now resides in the local museum.
47285 propels 6M73 Severn Tunnel Junction - Aintree Metal Box into the factory at Aintree sometime in 1988.
The dirt track in front of the locomotive was a cinder path which led from Parkfield Avenue along the side of the factory to Heysham Road, and behind the camera the locally referred to 'Metal Box Hills', the scene of much young tomfoolery.
The other local landmark in the picture is the 'Movie' chimney, belonging to the Peerless factory on Dunnings Bridge Road, and was an advert for its all purpose cleaning product.