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Semaphore Signal of the lower quadrant type
Semiphore comes from a French word, meaning...ummm something :-)
From Signal Timing Schedule for Traffic Control Plan, June 15, 1929.
Attempted "green wave": 8.5mph on Market; 50 vara district: 10.5 mph north-south, 14.5 mph east-west; 100 vara district: 14.5mph north-south, 20.5mph east-west.
They were very concerned in this plan about whether people would accept having the WALK signal not be at exactly the same time and for the same length as the green light, and decided it wasn't worth risking making them any different. At the start of reading it, my own anxieties made me think they were trying to introduce demand actuation or exclusive turn phases, but really they just wanted to acknowledge that the WALK signal needs to end a few seconds earlier because it takes longer for pedestrians to cross. They also were thinking of having the WALK on the left hand side begin before the green light since there would not be a conflict on that side with vehicles that had been waiting to turn.
My new signalbox which is based on a British Railways (London Midland Region) standard design - type 15 design, sits in the vee of lines - the left hand being what I have named as the "branch" (a single line which also forms the headshunt for the WRD and feeds into the fiddle yard), and the right hand lines which are the up and down main lines into and out of the station and the fiddle yard.
Theres lots to do detailing wise. I need to add an interior and maybe lighting, more cable trunking, a signalman, a toilet, and other clutter.
08661 propels 3 PCA's into the WRD via the branch
The light trails are not from a train, they are from cars on the road paralleling the tracks. This is a bridge (overpass above a road) that carries both the railroad and a street. I tried this with a train too, but it shook the bridge, and the camera, too much.
Poulton No.3 signal box overlooks the railway tracks to/from Blackpool North, behind the box are the tracks along the former Fleetwood railway. Poulton-le-Fylde. Thursday 24 May 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D.
Home Signal No 95.8 Controlled by Lithgow Coal Stage Signal Box. This signal is at stop whilst some shunting moves were taking place.
Without knowing where this signal sat originally, all I can say is that it was used for shunting as it isn't big enough to have been a main line type signal. 08 June 2009
1988
This isn’t the first doodle I ever drew, but it’s the oldest one I have a copy of. This was done as the cover of the “senior edition” of my high school newspaper. I never penciled anything out before I started drawing (and, to be honest, I still don’t), so it was a pretty big task to jump into. Any mistakes instantly became part of the final picture. Good times indeed
Signals at the intersection of Oxford Valley Road/Levittown Parkway and New Falls Road in Levittown. Here's a closeup of one of the 3M's.
Leganagh Point signal tower, part of a network of signal towers built around the coast of ireland, each in sight of the next. If an invasion was seen approaching, a fire would be lit, and the message passed around the coast all the way to Dublin. Two more modern look-out huts can be seen behind, used during world wars 1 and 2.
Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) 80 Class 3-car DEMU Nos.98 'Glenoe' 780 754, depart from Portrush with an Inter-City service to Belfast Central, March 1990.
Photo taken with permission from Northern Ireland Railways.
© Robert McConaghie
Romsey Signal box in Hampshire is now open to the public and the volunteers there have collected a lot of railway memorabilia too.
Railway Signals at Garfield, Victoria, Australia.
Taken through a perforated metal wall of the station's passenger shelter.
Don't really have the time to plan everything ahead of time, just working with parts on hand. Kinda working within the color scheme of the station.