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Ex GWR 2-8-0T, No. 4247, passes the old distant semaphore as it makes its way up the grade along the East Somerset Railway towards Cranmore in charge a mixed freight train.
The backstreets of harrogate form the backdrop, all backlit with challenging light, a lonely Semaphore, one of many in the Harrogate and Knaresborough area also joins the party.
One from a recent YouTube video of the area.
Northern 170478 2C42 12:59 Leeds to York.
25th January 2025
DB class 67 no. 67013 approaches Hammerton, west of York, on 20th November 2021, heading a Pathfinder Tours charter, 'The Northern Star' from Eastleigh to York, Harrogate and Leeds.
A Great Egret signals its intention to invade the fishing hole of an erstwhile traveling companion on Horsepen Bayou.
Class 197 No. 197002 arrives at Pembrey & Burry Port station on the 16:00 Fishguard Harbour Cardiff Central TfW service (1B48). The Up outer home semaphore signal, PY82, is seen on the left. Interestingly, with the exception of the traction and platform shelters, the scene has changed little this past half a century. That said, as of this morning (Friday 31 Oct), the arm and lenses have been removed from the semaphore, and a replacement colour light switched on.
On May 21, 2016, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief from Chicago is running on-time out of Raton as it splits the MP 706.2 semaphore intermediates south of Springer, New Mexico at the location of Robinson along BNSF's Raton Subdivision.
Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief passes one of the last few operating Semaphores in the country near Chapelle, New Mexico.
On my way home from what would be my last chase of a westbound over the west end of the Indiana Subdivision with CPLs, I made the decision to stop in at Campbellsburg on the former Monon, which now is, or was, the CSX Hoosier subdivision. A pair of semaphore masts guard the overgrown and now rail-less right of way of the Hoosier as time marches on, and the construction of the new Monon-south trail marches further south. I wasn't around to see the final days of operations over this once famous piece of railroad, but it's still sad to see it reduced to this.
This set still had blades throughout 2023, not sure when they were swiped.
Sunlight peeks through one of the few semaphore signals protecting the siding at Chapelle, New Mexico along BNSF's Glorieta Subdivision on May 21, 2016.
The NP semaphore era had come to an end. The final side by side set here at Donlan, MT, mp 207.2 on MRL's 4th Sub, stood tall until the end. A westbound coal train rocked through the western Montana woods around midnight.
6.10.05
The fine bracket semaphore signals for Castleford West Junction on the Normanton line, pictured in October 1994 two years before they were replaced by colour lights. Situated at the western end of Castleford station platforms, they both indicated the same routes, the one on the left, from the normal up direction and, the one on the right from the down platform used mainly to turn back terminating multiple units.
The Signal arms on each of the left-hand dolls were for the Cutsyke branch to Pontefract, whilst the arms on the right-hand dolls were for the main line to Wakefield or Leeds, each with the distant arms for Castleford Gates signalbox below them. The route behind me was a freight only line to Milford Sidings.
66736 heads the 6S45 North Blyth to Fort William Alumina, past the semaphores of Prudhoe Signal box on the 22nd September 2018.
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Its Sept 2020 were on the Santa Fe Raton Pass division with semaphores everywhere [Happy Signal semaphore Sunday ]
9/2022 - Los Cerillos, NM
As I wait for Amtrak to get closer, I decided to drone some of the semaphores on the NMRX section of the line.
A class 114 DMU set leaves Cleethorpes station in Lincolnshire, passing the array of semaphore signals that survived at the east coast resort until resignalling in 1985.
Cleethorpes was reached by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway in 1863.
Subsequently absorbed into the Great Central Railway, the signals on the left of the frame are built to Great Central designs.
The class 114 units spent much of their 30 years based at Lincoln and working across the East Midlands. They were a relatively early casualty of the 1980s Sprinter revolution, with the last two units being withdrawn in 1992.
Photograph by the late Roger Siviter, part of my collection.
Pretty much all that is in this shot no longer exists as seen here. These semaphores have long ago been removed and the Santa Fe leader has long been repainted. In fact pretty much all that exists on this line is twice a day Amtrak. Model, CO 6.18.00
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.
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Along BNSFs Raton Sub a rare BNSF train lights up the Blades at Colmor, NM. The small town of Springer is enough to light up the whole sky at night. Usually only two Amtrak trains in Daylight run across this portion.
37423 seen passing the semaphore signals at Acle on the 2P18 1036 Norwich - Great Yarmouth 19/4/19. (Taken using a pole)
The Severn Valley Railway's Class 108 DMU passes the semaphore signals at Bewdley South - the signal box can be seen behind the foliage on the right.
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The name Iris is Greek and it means rainbow for its many colours. However, most irises are shades of blue or purple.
Lately I have seen them white, yellow and mix of yellow and white.
The majority of irises that we see today are hybrids of the originals.
The iris has been around for many centuries, and many artists have chosen to paint them.
There are several famous paintings of the flowers. From 1888 to 1890, Van Gogh painted at least four paintings of irises.
Monet painted "Iris" sometime between 1914 and 1917.
Not only is the iris a beautiful flower, but also they have several uses.
As a live plant they are used as a water purifier.
They are ingredients in some perfumes, homemade toothpaste, pottery and herbal medicines.
The stylised iris, fleur-de-lis, descends from the white iris which is native to Florence, Italy and which grew even in its city walls.
This white iris, displayed against a red background, became the symbol of Florence until the Medici family, to signal a change in political power, reversed the colours making the white one red and setting in motion a centuries-long breeding program to hybridise a red iris.
Catherine de Medici carried this symbol of Florence to Paris when she married the king of France where this most famous of irises acquired its nickname, fleur-de-lis.
The iris has been associated with France as Louis VII adopted it as a symbol in the 12th Century.
In Flowers'-language: Iris means faith; hope; wisdom and valour
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Sémaphore de la Pointe Saint-Mathieu.
Les sémaphores sont des unités de la Marine Nationale, chargées de la surveillance côtière.
L'Etat a créé en 1861, une ligne de postes électro-sémaphoriques dont un certain nombre dans la région proche de Brest : Le Minou, Créac'h Meur, Saint-Mathieu, Le Conquet, Corsen, Landunvez. Par signaux à pavillons ils communiquaient avec les navires et retransmettaient leurs messages par le réseau télégraphique national.
Le premier sémaphore de la pointe Saint-Mathieu se trouvait a mi-chemin entre l'abbaye et les Rospects. Il n'avait pas de visibilité sur le chenal du Four. Avec la fermeture du poste de la pointe des Renards au Conquet fin XIXe, il est devenu impératif de le déplacer.
Au tout début des années 1900, la tour actuelle a été construite à l'extrémité ouest de la pointe. Plusieurs fois rénové et modifié, le sémaphore de Saint-Mathieu assure toujours sa mission de veille. On le qualifie de "vigie" car il est opérationnel 24h/24, au contraire des sémaphores qui ne sont armés par leur personnel que du lever au coucher du soleil.
The station of Kandy is a paradise for lovers of semaphores. Here, the afternoon Intercity to Colombo leaves the town, pulled by M6 791.
10/2020 - Springer, NM
Amtrak 150 leading Train No. 3 'knocks down' the semaphore signals near Springer. The challenge to get ahead of the 79 mph train begins now.
This set of semaphores was apparently replaced 10/2021 after the mechanism failed in one of them.
Plopeni Sat, delightful, telegraph poles, semaphore signals, disused sidings a very wayside station feel. Having scoped out the location on our way to the Slănic Prahova salt mine it was realised on the return journey that two trains would pass here so a stop was booked in. Duly former Dutch Nederlandse Spoorwegen Wadloper 783 220 working R 1032 Slănic to Ploiești Sud to await the passage of the northbound unit. Sadly one local wasn't happy with our presence, although happily the three of us had split up, he proceeded to follow me round screaming f*** off, and once we'd got our shots we did indeed leave as was planned. A side note that there's a station here and a single house.