0-4-4T Class H and its vintage coaches are held by the signal jst outside Horsted Keynes Station, waiting for clearance to proceed.

Berkswell Signal Box

shot last week, its starting to look somewhat like spring here in St. John's. Although were underneath a blanket of snow.. I am counting down the days until that spring sunny weather :)

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The colourful front cover of the monthly issue of the popular Meccano Magazine, issued by the famous toy manufacturers who owned this product and the associated Hornby Trains and Dinky Toys - the Liverpool based Meccano Ltd. It shows a scene from their home city that even the article admits "soon the line may cease to run, and may even be demolished, for their is a crisis in its affairs".

There was indeed a crisis in that years of under-investment in repairs had led to the structural steelwork in this very American style "elevated" railway being in very poor condition and sadly closure came a month after this article and demolition of the line did occur the following year, the same year that the city's famous tram system also finally closed. It is often considered that the closure was a great loss to what is now a major tourist destination although the docks and harbour it ran alongside and served have to all intents and purpose also gone - although regeneration of much of banks of the River Mersey has and is, in places contentiously, occurring. As the article concludes "it will be a sorry day if the thrilling run along the Overhead with its unique views of shipping in the Docks or out on the Mersey, can no longer be enjoyed".

The cover, based on a photo by W S Garth of Tyldesley, Lancashire, depicts a train along with a signal head seen against the backdrop of three of the great buildings adjacent to Pier Head, the Mersey Tunnel ventilation shaft, part of the Cunard Building and the Liver Building.

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.

Giving hope to the weak,

and terror to those who would harm them

Chilling out with this music: Of Porcelain - Signal The Captain

[Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont]

1H85 Llandudno to Manchester Piccadilly zips over the Frodsham Viaduct with the delightful control cabin for the Weaver Navigation swing bridge providing the foreground interest.

From the Wauona Trail crossing, looking (RR) west. We're on the siding, main to the left, M&P Sub (branch to Madison) is the jointed rail track to the left of that. Heading off behind the brush to the right is the "old line" from Milwaukee that ran via Horicon, abandoned west of Cambria. A small stub remains on the Portage end for access to one customer, Meigs. Additionally, Meigs' spur is also a stub of the (original) Soo Line's "P-Line" that once came down from Stevens Point.

By the signal mast on the far left, a spur off the M&P drops down a steep hill and then parallels Mullett Street to serve Alter Trading (a scrap/recycling yard). This was still in use at the time of the photo, but would be out of service and dismantled by the end of 2015. In the distance is the Highway 33 bridge.

Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, send hand signals as they head back to the USS Germantown (LSD 42) in Combat Rubber Raiding Craft, Feb. 17 , 2016, after conducting a successful boat raid the night before. The Marines conducted the boat raid as part of the 31st MEU's amphibious integration training with the Navy ships of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group. The Marines and sailors of the 31st MEU are currently deployed to the Asia-Pacific region.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Samantha Villarreal/Released)

bray head, valentia island, county kerry, ireland

Old Railway Signal one of many to be seen at York Railway Museum,

Rose Street Box, one of the many in and around Inverness .

HDR view inside the signal box at Hartington in Derbyshire. The signal box is now a visitors centre on the Tissington Trail through the Peak District. Restored to look like a working 'old style' railway signal box - everything's there apart from the trains these days....

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Projection stéréographique d'une place de jeu au signal de Sauvablin.

12 bracked shots at 10mm with a Panosaurus head. PTGui, Photomatix, Photoshop.

I first went on this playground to have fun, but then I realize a had my camera and my panoramic head with me... So I shot this panorama while playing around. I also give a try to merge a watermark, classic but looks pretty good to me.

You can see all my stereographic projections here.

Thanks for your visit, fav's and comments !

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The impressive signal box at Canterbury West that spans the running lines is the feature of the station. Competing for attention on 14th March 2009 is the National Railway Museum's 'Britannia' No. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' and 'Electrostar' Class 375 EMU No. 375624. The former had just arrived with The Railway Touring Company's 'Golden Arrow' charter that had earlier visited the Folkestone harbour branch, and now forms 1Z84, 1309 ex-Folkestone Harbour. Meanwhile the Class 375 is about to call at the station with a service to London. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved

A train approaching the signal at the Horseshoe Curve.

Night falls over Banbury South. The lights are on in the signal box and the lower quadrant signals remain in place, but for how much longer? An additional semaphore, visible on the far right was installed recently to give the platforms more flexibility. A Freightliner is halted in the lay-bye.

Techy stuff: Taken during that wonderful time between dusk and night when the sky turns royal blue. Train load behind 66522 is concrete sleepers, Washwood Heath - Taunton Fairwater Yard service.

© Copyright Steve Banks, no unauthorised use.

NS 1073 PC Heritage waits at the signals at CP Millards in Anneville, PA.

Frodsham Junction signal box located between the Down Main of the Warrington to Chester line and Up Liverpool via Halton Jct line on a fine September 8th 1986.

London & North Western Railway Company Type 5 design built for the London and North Western & Great Western Joint Railways in 1912 and fitted with a 32 lever frame.

The signal box carried a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard, and the top part of the roof finial had been removed.

Taken from a Kyle train , a 4-arm signal is passed outside Inverness, 30/7/82.

This signal gave eastbound trains an approach indication for the home signal at Hudson, Ohio, on the former Akron Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It has been dark since Conrail ceased using the line years ago and Akron Metro bought it to railbank it.

Crawling up to the crossing, IC 1031 gains an extra splash of color on the nose, courtesy of the block signals at Church Road. Not only was it a lovely summer evening but Byron Hill is a great place for the last chase of the day. It's easy to get ahead of the train without driving another 50 miles and the blue hour action can be recorded without motion blur, if you're so inclined. July 20, 2024.

When the interlocking signal is pulled into the clear position the distant signal changes from yellow to green. When the interlocking signal is at stop, the distant signal shows "proceed, prepared to stop"

I live alone, so this “Stay at Home Order” has effectively severed all my meaningful personal interactions with other human beings.

In March, when I first began self isolating, I felt as though I had been performing the lead role in a play when suddenly the lights went out and the audience and other actors rushed out, leaving me standing in the dark on an empty stage in front of rows of empty theater seats.

Nothing in my life had prepared me for dealing with this abrupt and dramatic change in my living situation. Initially, I kind of just stood there in the shadows feeling a little scared and a little overwhelmed.

Then the necessities of preparing for the siege ahead forced me into action.

I donned mask and gloves and braved trips to the grocery store to buy essential supplies. I was dismayed to find entire shelves empty of anything resembling paper products – no toilet paper, no paper towels, no tissues. Other shelves that ordinarily contained cleaning products, such as bleach, hand wipes, and all the spray bottles labeled with the name Lysol, were bare as well.

The shoppers around me seemed equally shocked and uncertain. As Americans, I think most of us had never before faced a shortage of anything, let alone something as essential as toilet paper. It was truly a watershed moment.

As time went on, my emotions seemed to vacillate between fear of the future and confidence that all of us could get through this if collectively we followed the mandates and stayed the course.

Each day I woke up feeling positive and hopeful, but then I’d watch the news, which invariably plunged me back into fearfulness.

Every day the headlines seemed to be the same – the virus was extremely contagious, people were dying, and the virus was spreading.

Would I catch it? And if I did get the virus, how would I manage being sick with no one here to help me? Would I die?

I was scared, and few things in life are harder than facing fear alone.

At some point I realized that trying to stay informed was immobilizing me, keeping me locked in a state of fear and uncertainty. So I stopped watching the news.

I was already doing all I could to protect myself, so there was nothing to be gained by continuing to submit to the daily jolt of terrifying information.

Then I started reaching out to my family and friends via phone. I discovered that this period of uncertainty has strengthened and deepened some of my relationships and allowed me to reconnect with old friends in new ways.

Like the woman holding the fiery flare in Edward Moran’s painting "The Signal," which hangs in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, I recognize that my family and friends are still there, standing on the distant shore, shining their light for me to see and keeping my hopes alive.

I live alone, but I am not alone.

~

Edward Moran, "The Signal" in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art

2005OCT29 SLYNNLEE-0037

Signal Mountain, as seen from Oxbow Bend on the Snake River, on a extremely cloudy and rainy October morning. The elevation of the mountain is 7,720 feet (2,350 meters) and is about 1,100 (335 meters) above the river. There is a road and hiking trails to the summit with spectacular views along the way.

Even on days like this, there is no better place to be than the Jackson Hole Valley.

Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA

Turn up the signal, Wipe out the noise

Signal to Noise

Nacho

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The whole word is watching.

Giving the signal

Continental Cup Beach Volleyball Cairns.

A direct qualifier for the Rio 2016 Olympics

Thanks for looking

Cheers Claire :)

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There are so many different meanings with them and they come in all shapes and sizes.

This one is a lunar colored or restricted signal I think? Restricted as in run your train no faster than it can stop in half the distance of vision?

I'll never figure them all out....

The old signal tower on my new TT scale diorama was kitbashed using some parts from Auhagen kits.

Downtown Omaha Nebraska.

retour sur les lieux 6 mois après ma première explo

88,35 MHz - HR1

Hexham signal box, which is a Grade II Listed building, is located to the east of Hexham station and is an overtrack, gantry signal box, built in about 1896 for the North Eastern Railway (NER). It is one of two surviving signal boxes of this design on the Newcastle to Carlisle line; the other being to the east at Wylam.