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With NS traffic ahead having cleared CP482 in Porter, Indiana, a CSX westbound has the signal to move off the Grand Rapids Subdivision onto the NS Chicago Line.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Wilmslow signal box located alongside between the Down Main line (in front of the signal box) and the Down Styal line at the south end of Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow signal box was a British Railways London Midland Region non standard design, one of three similar signal boxes built in connection with the Crewe to Manchester 25kV overhead electrification. It was built by EB Jones and opened fitted with a Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limited one control switch panel on 26th June 1959 under stage 2 of the resignalling between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, replacing Chelford Loop, Chelford Station, Chelford Sidings, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow Station, and Handford Sidings signal boxes. The signal box was closed at 01:30 on 10th December 2005 and demolished within a month during upgrading of the line between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, officially closing on 19th June 2006 when signalling controlled by Manchester South Signalling Control Centre was commissioned
Ref no BT/00782
Signal cabin at high level - Balham to East/West Croydon line in foreground at Streatham Common station - 27.8.78
A place i've passed through many many times on the trains but until today have never been to and that is Culgaith on the Settle & Carlisle line.
Culgaith Station signal box opened Jan 1880 and was replaced on the 4th Oct 1908 this Midland Railway type 4a design.
5th September 2023
Signals on the south face of the disused station - September 1978. The station is now DLR's Stratford High Street.
An eastbound stack train kicks up fresh show as it approaches a high green at West Essex. BNSF is replacing older searchlight style signals across the pass.
Sometimes leaving out the locomotives can really accentuate another element of the scene which is what I tried to accomplish here. So for today's Freight Car Friday here's another take on NS train 11T (loaded double stacked trash containers from Greencastle, PA to Uniontown, AL) with motion blur of the well cars and stacks drawing the eye to the classic CPL signals.
A brief history for those who perhaps aren't familiar. Norfolk Southern's modern day Roanoke District mainline is a historic former Norfolk and Western Railway route that was the original pre merger N&W's outlet to northern markets via connections with the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Western Maryland. Formed in 1870 as the Shenandoah Valley Railroad with financial backing from the PRR the portion of the line from Shephardston to the Shenandoah River opened in 1879 followed by the extension north to Hagerstown in 1880 and south to Roanoke in 1882 marking completion of the 240 mile long route up the valley. Within a few years the company was bankrupt and after several years or legal and financial wrangling it became a part of the growing N&W system and has remained integral to it and its successor to this day.
Per Jeff Hawkins' wonderful site on all things Virginia railroading:
Due to the Pennsylvania Railroad's ownership stake in the N&W, the company began utilizing position light signals in the 1920's. The first position light signals were installed on the Shenandoah Division between Hagerstown and Shenandoah in February 1924. In December 1926 the remaining segment of the line to Roanoke was activated. In the early 1960's the N&W removed the center light and changed the lights around the outer perimeter to color bulbs, hence the term color position light signal.
The train is seen here hustling past the timetable location known as Pkin at MP H165.6 as they leave single track and diverge onto Main 1 for a stretch of double track extending 3.1 miles south to Vesuvius. While most of the CPLs south of here appeared to remain in service I'm not sure how many remain north to Shenandoah and beyond up the Hagerstown District...if any.
Rising beyond is the flank of 3640 ft. Cellar Mountain in the Northern Blue Ridge Mountains in the Saint Mary's Wilderness area of George Washington & Jefferson National Forest.
For a nice concise map of the Roanoke District I again reference Jeff Hawkins' resources:
www.railfanvirginia.com/NS Roanoke.htm
Near unincorporated Steeles Tavern
Augusta County, Virginia
Friday March 29, 2024
Class 'J' 4-8-4 no 611 eastbound, smoking despite the downhill gradient, passes under new signal gantries at Singer, west of Roanoke, Virginia, on the former Norfolk & Western Railroad's main line, with the return leg of an excursion from Radford. 29 May 2017
This is an improvised signal on the Eastern Illinois Railroad (EIRC) at Metcalf, IL. This signal was made from a switch indicator and marker lamp and protects the EIRC's diamond with CSX.
Towcester signal box during demolition.
It's a pity that this unusual box could not have been preserved somewhere but I guess that it would have been too complicated and expensive to move it.
03/07/1965 [GB 1544].
BNSF 4425 leads a eastbound stack train through Joliet, IL. You can barely make out where this is without the ironic signal bridge standing.
More signals by Welsh's Bridge Box at Inverness. Attempts to photograph trains here were thwarted by cloud - the sun being very intermittent.
KJRY's Santa Train heads west past the abandoned signal in Canton, IL. This is where the former CB&Q Yates City Line once crossed this one on a diamond, which still lies in the weeds just out of view to the right.
These mechanical signals have become rare, replaced by ones that are just lights. I like the old ones, though :-)
This army private sports an embroidered Signal Corps enlisted man's hat patch pinned unconventionally onto the left breast of his shell jacket.
CDV photo by S. Dome & co., Greencastle, Pa.
The principal elements of the Signal Corps badge included a pair of crossed signal flags over the letters "U.S." in old English script. Although not officially adopted by army regulations, the enlisted man's hat badge differed from that of officers in that it did not have an encircling gold wreath enclosing the crossed signal flags, nor did it have a lit torch in the center of the crossed flags. Instead the enlisted man's badge included a field of 13 stars in the space above the crossed flags.
Because it was perceived as being in direct competition to the Military Telegraph Service, the Signal Corps was constituted as a provisional body and not as a permanent branch of the U.S. Army and the use of identifying insignia did not come about until late in the war. Officially, the Signal Corps did not receive permanent status until 1866, a year after the war was over. But by then, its field experience during the war had proved its worth.
This railway signal is just standing in the middle of the parking lot in front of Bathurst railway station here in NSW Australia.
Photographer: Pfc. Gene Galanter.
Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive.
NS 13G with the Wabash heritage unit passes underneath the 10.8 signals at Haysville while 3 different signal indications are shown in the background for eastbounds.
Quiz time: Can you name the 3 signal indications?
Picture of last year's Million Bulb Walk holiday lights, processed in GIMP and slightly databent in Audacity.
Eastbourne signal box on 5th September 2002. It was built in 1882 and was converted to a NX panel power signal box in 1991. The box closed in 2015 when the line was resignalled and control was moved to the signalling centre at Three Bridges.
Rescanned at higher resolution with better colour and image quality
The junction station at St Georges d'Aurac Gare, as at many rural locations in France retained mechanical signalling in 2005 (it may still do so - can anyone confirm ?)
Class X4630 Caravelle units X4646 and X8435 approach a stop signal protecting the end of the passing loop while changing platforms
This North British Type 7 signal box has a Stevens GNP frame (32 levers, 9 still in use) and dates from around 1910
Greenbank Box Interior.
NX Panel
I passed out Greenbank on my 58th Birthday, my 32nd box passed out in my 8 years and my 38th location in total.
Exactly seven weeks later I returned to work my first, and to date only, shift.
The box houses a now elderly NX panel housed in a BR Type 15 box.
The box works to Plumley West in the East, Mickle Trafford to the West and Manchester SCC on the branch to the South. Around the chord from Hartford CLC Jcn. to Hartford Jcn and the WCM the box works to Winsford.
The box has in recent times seen a significant increase in freight as this becomes a thoroughfare for freight from the East to Merseyside.
The flows include Manchester waste from locations such as Bredbury, Northenden & Brindle Heath and the likes to Runcorn and the incinerator there located on the Folly Lane branch.
Another waste flow is currently suspended, that between Wilton (Teeside) and Knowsley (Kirkby) which when it returns will bring a welcome return of freight down the single line beyond Rainford Junction to Kirkby.
Other flows include chemicals from Folly Lane which trip to and from Arpley Yard. They run twice a week (Tuesday and Friday) and arrive on their outward journey from Arpley then run round to access Folly Lane, the move is performed in reverse on their return from Runcorn to Warrington.
A flow of stone seems to run daily from the Peak District to Warrington Dallam.
Coal is currently being shipped from the Ferrybridge to Fiddlers Ferry, I'm told the two trains a day will continue for three years clearing what's on the ground at Ferrybridge.
Also associated with power generation is the flow of Biomass from Liverpool Docks to Drax and return
In addition to the freight a basically hourly service operates between Manchester Picc and Chester augmented in the peaks with an extra train or two. Operated by Northern it's a disparate mix of 142's, 150's or 156 units. Timings must be reasonably generous as the trains seem to run to time.
It must have been a special birthday for Kings Lynn-based rail tour promoter Nigel Dobbing as West Coast Railways, the train operating company which operates his charter trains, provided a a rake of coaches including some heritage vehicles for a special private charter to celebrate the event. Of note was the use of the 'Queen of Scots' observation car positioned at the rear of the train, and the use of WCRC's recently restored 'Jubilee' No. 45699 'Galatea' to haul the train. On a grey 20th May 2013 the ensemble is seen passing Whittlesea signal box heading back from Kings Lynn to Carnforth with the empty stock off the previous days charter. Copyright John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Class 47/4 47468 passes Llysfaen signal box with the 08:15 Holyhead to Crewe.
Llandulas station was opened at this location by the London & North Western Railway on 1st August 1862. Once a new station for Llandulas was opened further to the east, this somewhat remote station was renamed as Llysfaen. Both passenger and goods services were withdrawn in January 1931. The Saxby & Farmer signal box controlled access to the adjacent sidings used by the ICI quarry and was taken out of use in 1983. In the distance is the Penmaenrhos Tunnel and to the right of the locomotive construction of the North Wales Expressway could be seen in progress.
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