View allAll Photos Tagged Boxes
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.
Here we see Direct Rail Services DBSO 9709 leading the rake of coaches and 37401 into Barrow-In-Furness whilst working a slightly delayed 2C34 from Carlisle to terminate here. Observed on 23rd August 2017
This room box is made of mdf & formex and pieces of woods.
Link to my doll room box posting – blog.naver.com/deeplycrash/80148421727
All rights are reserved. Please contact me if you are interested in using this image. Thanks for looking at my work
Feel free to visit my website 4G Images
It is a small commercial site offering high quality prints
________________________________________________
My website | Twitter | Instagram
Copyrighted © Wendy Dobing All Rights Reserved
Do not download without my permission.
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.
The Jewel Box, located on a 17-acre site in Forest Park, was built by the City of St. Louis in 1936 and is operated by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry. It is listed on the National Historic Register.
Thank you for viewing.
OBSERVE Collective
All images are © Copyrighted and All Rights Reserved
germanstreetphotography.com/michael-monty-may/
Letter boxes, Chicago Board of Trade building. which is considered an art deco masterpiece. The art deco motif is prominent throughout the entire building.
Xyla seemed to like this box, so I cut off three of the flaps and put the "bed" from the cat carrier in it. She was leery at first, but she seems to like it.
A different arrangement of flaps on this one
Result is similar to the Chopin tato-box
The above config is more efficient, box is bigger.
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,1
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
I'm kinda fascinated about this little wooden refuge box on the Lindisfarne Causeway. I wonder how often it gets used? Getting stuck in there when the tide comes in can't be too pleasant as its pretty small and I guess it doesn't have any "home comforts". But then again, if someone is stupid enough to ignore the tide times...
It’s not only the Island that is holy...the refuge box has quite a few holes in it, too.
After posting the photo and narrative, I found this really excellent video that answers my questions (including how many times ish people get stuck - and why its referred to as the "Idiot Box"):-
holy-island.uk/crossing-holy-islands-causeway-and-what-yo...
ODC-Tops & Bottoms
I think the stand for this mailbox was made for it. It's rusted over the years but still is very sturdy.
This box, designed in late 2020, is decorated with a shamrock, and folded from a single square of Tant paper. In contrast to most of my box designs, in which the lid is separate from the bottom part, this one is single-part and opens via a hinge. Two large flaps on both sides lock underneath a pleat that goes along the bottom of the box, making it possible to close the box quite neatly.
In order to limit the design to the convenient 16×16 grid, I ended up with a slit between the closed lid and the front wall. Using a slightly larger grid, it should be easy to add a small flap in front of the lid and ensure that in closed state, nothing can fall out of the box.
Link (with more pictures): origami.kosmulski.org/models/hinged-shamrock-box