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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
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
snowy night on the Hudson Line
Strobist: alien bee 1400' back, just around the curve lighting up the edge of the rail. Another with a 15 degree grid lighting up across the tracks
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.
On a sunny Friday in March, an eastbound train of mostly trailers passes the endangered Santa Fe signal bridges at Edelstein, Illinois on the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision. The units in this train's consist are already in dynamic braking as its engineer prepares for the 1.1% descending grade that begins a half mile to the east, and which takes the former AT&SF tracks into the Illinois River valley at Chillicothe.
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).
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.
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.
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.
When I took this shot last September I did not at first realise that the box was now closed but if you zoom in on the notice in the window you will see it says 1896 - 2016. A quick Google and I came across this Facebook page for Lowdham Railway Heritage:- www.facebook.com/lowdhamsignalbox/ and clearly, it is to be kept and relocated as a piece of valuable local heritage. What a great idea and it makes me sad to think that such could have become of the box at my local Maghull Station instead of demolition.
Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, UK
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.
A timeless railway scene at Uffington & Barnack signal box, with a cast-iron 'Beware of Trains' sign to boot!
15-08-2025
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
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.
© Gordon Edgar - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission
A fairly recent addition to the signalling at Peterborough is signal P437, it controls the northbound exit to platform 2, mainly for use by East Midlands Train services to Spalding and Lincoln. It's easily distinguishable by the fact it's an LED, rather than standard colour light. Behind it, on platform 3b (ironically!) is EMT dogbox 153311 with the 1511 Peterborough-Lincoln Central. 16 January 2010.
This scene was taken at the back of Silvertown Station Signal box on Christmas Eve 1956, an unrecognisable new Silvertown station is now in use, it was transferred to the DLR and is called Silvertown and London City Airport. When Peter visited it was a grubby London branch line, busy with local freight and with a reasonable passenger service.
68662 was an A. Hill design for the Great Eastern Railway J38 class. The loco was built at Stratford Works, it entered service in November 1923 as 36E, in 1924 under grouping it was numbered LNER 7036, in 1947 it became 8662 and under BR 68662. The loco was withdrawn 18/08/1958 and scrapped in February 1959.
Peter Shoesmith 24/12/1956
Copyright Geoff Dowling & John Whitehouse: All rights reserved
I haven't taken any landscape photos in a couple months. So, I figured it was about time to go out and take some. I took an early morning trip to Signal Hill and took some shots of the snow covered hill and city.
New print release
A mix of fog and bushfire smoke fill the jamison valley on sunrise in the beautiful Blue Mountains, Australia.
China is the world's second most-populous country, but it's also a small town of about 1200 in southeast Texas. The name was originally "China Grove", coming from the local chinaberry trees.
China began as a water stop in the 1860's for Southern Pacific predecessor Texas & New Orleans Railroad, though now trains don't stop nearly as often. There's still an 11,000 ft passing siding here, featuring bowling ball tri-lights installed by the SP during their program to lengthen sidings in the late 80's and early 90's.
Here, we see CP 2816 race past an old SP signal at the east switch of China. The Final Spike Steam Tour has just left Beaumont and is only getting underway on its 120 miles or so of trackage rights on the UP between Beaumont and Rosenberg.
B40B (Final Spike Steam Tour; Calgary, AB to Mexico City, CDMX)
CP H1b 4-6-4 #2816
CP SD70ACU #7013
CP FP9A #1401
CP FP9A #4107
China, TX
May 25th, 2024
For now, signal territory starts and ends between here and Merrill Road some 11-12 mile ahead. Furthermore, there is a gap of about 10 miles west between here and MP 180 where the next signal lies. In the coming year(s) with both slated grant work and CSX taking over, TCS will be extended from MP180 through to Leeds Junction and create actual controlled sidings, as well as control the ability to line the switch at Leeds Jct. For now, it's business as usual on Pan Am as they get underway out of Danville encroaching on the dark hours of the day.
© David K. Edwards. A most important site for early radio pioneers. Dots and dashes and a communications miracle. There are still quite a lot of wires.
Back before the COVID-19 stay-at-home quarantine began, I began organizing some of my older photos. This is one of the first photos I forgot about and edited.
One of the last train photos I took with my 2005-vintage Olympus C-60Z digital camera. It wouldn't survive much longer, forcing me to buy a second one from eBay. Fortunately, I had gotten my first DSLR (Canon Rebel XTi) not long before this, and I was still waiting on a memory card and camera bag for it before I could begin using it (back when 4GB CompactFlash cards were still really expensive).
Here we see BNSF H2 4544 going east through the CB&Q-era East Somonauk signal bridge in Somonauk, IL on the BNSF Mendota Sub. This signal bridge survived until 2011, but it's counterpart at West Somonauk was taken out in a derailment with Amtrak in 2006.