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URR 23, 22, 25, 16 lead the empty 66 coke train from Port Perry/Dexter yard are arriving back home into Clairton passing the C1 signal. 66 job ran on two shifts, they would run loads from Clairton to Braddock and to the CSX at Dexter yard. The midnight job would always take "dinner" at coal valley just north of Clairton until around about 7-730 and would then roll down into the mill to yard their train and tie up at 10am. Here the mid night train is running late and is rolling into the mill well behind schedule and would die while yarding the train.
The train becomes a spectre in the mist over the Cole Valley as it leaves Yardley Wood for Shirley station.
The train was 2S04 the 09.07 Great Malvern to Stratford-upon-Avon service with 172217 as the trailing set.
Copyright Geoff Dowling: All rights reserved
Severn Bridge Junction at Shrewsbury with the road set for a train to Cardiff. A rare survival is the Great Western type lower quadrant signalling with miniature arms. In the background is the largest mechanical signalbox left in Britain.
Oh No ! Bentley Heath Signal Box is being ripped apart like a Christmas Cracker, with little respect for the yaers it has stood there guarding Mill Lane & The Railway.......10/02/2008
A CSX SD40-2 leads W039 south on the Toledo Subdivision in Deshler Ohio passing underneath a CPL signal cantilver.
BNSF 7590 passes under the old Santa Fe signal bridges with a long stack train at Mp. 313 in La Plata, MO. on the BNSF Marceline Sub. (5-1-2013)
Now a thing of the past, I wish I had photographed these more and the others along the line for that matter.
British Railways Class 9F 92214 passes array of Semophore Signal in the Subrubs of Loughborough,train was enroute to Leicester on 01/01/2016
Railway signal lghtes arrayed in a row. Wide angle with HDR enhancement. Taken at the Illinois Railway Museum www.irm.org
Large size: www.flickr.com/photos/vidular/2706118387/sizes/o/
9f 92214 awaits the signal to enter the station, 78019 awaits the signal to re enter and back onto its train.
!2024.015.CEI.046 Bill Brandt image of C&EI 1019 on passenger train #96, Dixie Mail at Danville, IL on July 24, 1948.
More of Bill's images can be found here.
A westbound Northeast Regional train flies towards Edison Station, passing under a signal gantry chock full of Position Color Lights (colorized Position Lights, not to be confused with Color Position Lights used by the B&O).
Photographed at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugar Creek, OH.
This one is marked "Patented July 21 1903"
The north track of CN's Chicago Subdivision has been removed between Oakwood and 21st Street, leaving 16th Street Crossing a bit less cluttered and this signal guarding nothing. Behind it on the St Charles Air Line, Amtrak's southbound 'Illini' clunks across Metra's Rock Island District.
On a hike to Yant Flat north of St George, Utah, the view north to Signal Peak with its remaining snow caught my admiration. Signal Peak (10,369') is the highest point in the Pine Valley Mountains.
KJRY 1750 leads a westbound freight past the signal that once guarded the BNSF diamond in Canton, IL.
on the platform at Tabata-station in Tokyo.
I pass through in front of this signal every morning.
He who seems an old robot is standing at end of the platform and working for safety traffic all day.
Sometimes, I get to want to say good morning to him.
#tair11 #oldlens
Amtrak Veterans NPCU 90221 leads a Hiawatha East past the tri light signals at North Glenview. Glenview, IL
After decades of valiant service, the original Wabash southbound signal at Lodge was officially turned, cut, and shutdown forever. Rather unceremoniously, the heads were all turned and the wires that connected the signal to the relay cabinet were cut and stripped. 150 yards to the south, the "new" signal has been finally turned to face the tracks after having been installed nearly two years prior, and testing of all the indications is underway.
The reason for this change is visible on the left. The relay cabinet and the rollercoaster of codeline were deemed unnecessary - and potentially more costly to utilize - so the signal was moved back in order to condense the Lodge control point. Of note is that the codelines primary purpose here is in fact power supply, not the actual signal to the signal.
So, big whoop, right? A searchlight replaced with a searchlight. Fair trade, no? In a way, yes, and really nothing changes that much. But the replaced signal was a piece of the lines history. Formerly known as the Forrest District under the Wabash, the signals at Lodge date back until 1959 at the latest. There's something to be said about comparing the swap to the ship of Theseus - if all the rest of these searchlights were replaced with different ones, would it really be exactly the same?
At any rate, the fate of the Lodge 3-header has not been kind. We had hoped to acquire the whole signal and preserve it, but alas, when I asked about it the morning of, I was told we wouldn't be able to buy it because they were desperate for the parts inside.
The bright side? These parts salvaged from this signal will help keep the rest of the Bloomington District signals going - I asked about the rumour from earlier this year and it was confirmed false, the rest of the searchlights are not coming down in the foreseeable future. The day they do, well, that's when the preservation efforts can really begin.
Two hours after this photo was taken - while I was at work - the signal was pulled down, alongside the relay cabinet that housed the troublesome battery that was half the cause of the signals removal, and placed on a trailer. The trailer would be left overnight. A reliable source confirmed that they had already stripped the Lodge signal of its internal mechanism, reducing the entire signal to a thousand pound shell. Now, the signal is gone forever.
The home signal protecting Asher Lane level crossing on the Nottingham Heritage Railway (formerly the Great Central – North) is in of a coat of paint and is at risk from the encroaching vegetation, 12th August 2021.
ROG Class 37 No.37800 "Cassiopeia" comes off the relief freight line at Hereford onto the Down main passing the impressive Hereford signal box. This is the 5Q79 Barton Under Needwood to Landore unit drag comprising TfW Class 175 3-car unit No. 175109, with 37608 at the rear.
Modified Hall Class 6990 "Witherslack Hall" emerging from Beeches Road bridge, Loughborough, Great Central Railway
58047 passes Seymour Junction signal box on Saturday 19th March 1994 with empty HEA's from the Bolsover 'Coalite' plant to Worksop yard.
Nothing remains here now.
© Dave Peachey.
A timeless railway scene at Uffington & Barnack signal box, with a cast-iron 'Beware of Trains' sign to boot!
15-08-2025
Resident signaller, Richard Jones, operates the levers inside Hereford signal box, most of which are active.
Old railroad signal towers abandoned by Southern Pacific as part of the installation of the mandated Positive Train Control System. Sage Ghost Town, Lincoln County, Wyoming.
The signal gives the Fairburn designed '4MT' 2-6-4T no.42073 the all clear to enter Lakeside station.
Peter van Campenhout’s 2018 L&HR 42073 Charter
Shrewsbury, one of only a handful of locations on the UK rail network where semaphore signals are still in use. In the background is the mighty Severn Bridge Junction signal box, the largest operational mechanical signal box in the world.
Class 45/1 45144 'Royal Signals' at Crewe Works in the company of 40150 on 22nd October 1983. The 'Peak' remained in service until December 1987 and was cut up during the following year by Vic Berry in Leicester.
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