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Info on the box from the "Settle Carlisle Railway Conservation Area (SCRCA)" website:
"The current signal box at Garsdale is a three-bay version of the Midland Railway 'type 4c' standard design and it became operational on 10th July 1910. Its original dimensions were 30ft. long by 10ft. 6in. wide and the operating cabin is 8ft high. It houses a 'type 33R' manually operated 40-lever tappet frame (which was manufactured in 1910 at the Derby signal works).
When first opened, it was known as 'Hawes Junction' signal box and it replaced two earlier signal boxes ('Hawes Junction South' and 'Hawes Junction North'). However, on 1st September 1932, it was renamed to 'Garsdale Station' signal box. (On the same date, the name of the station was officially altered from 'Hawes Junction and Garsdale' to 'Garsdale'.)
On Saturday, 24th December 1910, the operation of this signal box played a key role in the 'Hawes Junction Disaster' (one the most deadly accidents to have occurred on the Settle & Carlisle Railway).
In 1983 (when the line was being run-down for closure), the box was 'switched out' (i.e. it was not used for normal traffic purposes). However, it was maintained in an operational state and it was reactivated for short periods of time when traffic on the line was busier than normal (e.g. due to diversions from the West and East Coast Main Lines and when steam specials were booked to stop at the station to take-on water).
During the second half of the 1990s, the box was re-opened on a part-time basis (as traffic levels began to increase following the line's reprieve from closure).
In 2008, its opening hours were extended to 24/7 to cater for a significant increase in freight traffic. Also during 2008/9, a small extension was added to provide toilet and washing facilities within earshot of the operating floor (thereby reducing the need for the duty signaller to temporarily close the box).
In 2014, remedial work was carried-out to combat a subsidence issue and to extend the life of the box. During this 4-month (£275,000) project, the operating floor was supported by an internal steel frame constructed on a series of 'mini piles' and the building was fully refurbished (including replacement windows, a new slate roof, and repainting).
In 2021, the box’s structural timbers and outside cladding were repaired, the roof and windows were replaced (again), the staircase, toilet extension and window cleaning balcony were rebuilt, a new kitchen was installed, and the entire structure was repainted."
Kingscote signal box on the heritage Bluebell Railway in West Sussex. The cabin was rescued from Brighton Upper Goods Yard, and sat for some years in the top yard at Sheffield Park station. Set on a suitable brick base, it was opened in 1996.
Kingscote is a typical country railway station with a small goods yard from an era when almost everything went by rail including holiday makers, livestock, milk, fruit and vegetables, newspapers and mail. You can only imagine how busy it could be even in a remote station like this. Kingscote is painted in the colours of the British Railways Southern Region.
a pair of DPUs duck under one of the last remaining old signal bridges left in Missouri just west of Bucklin....11/10/17
CP 484 splits the older signals along with their Safetrans replacements along York Road in Bensenville. With the new Irving Park flyover nearly complete, the new-style signals will be swung around and activated soon. A freshly-repainted Union Pacific C40-8W was leading the way along Fortress O'Hare.
Denton Village Crossing is one of the many and varied crossings on the former NER route between Carlisle and Newcastle. This one – pictured looking east in February 2009 - had a crossing keeper with manually controlled gates and a ground frame with semaphore stop and distant signals.
The signals were normally in the off position with gates closed to road traffic but I was fortunate to capture them at danger while a car crosses. The signals were removed just a few months after this picture was taken as part of the area’s re-signalling project, based on the new signalling centre at Low Row, however the gate keeper was retained.
The signal post on the left (for the up direction) is slightly unusual (though similar to one at Low Row). It’s constructed of a welded steel frame stem surmounted by a tubular post, surprisingly - in this exposed location - not in need of any “guy ropes”. To the right of the image, the down signal looks like it has an original NER square wooden post but that is tethered by three stabilising wires.
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The small signal box at Yalding dated from 1894 and at the time was a fringe box to Tonbridge in the south and Wateringbury to the north on the Medway Valley line. It was a Saxby and Farmer type 12a box and fitted with a 27 lever frame. The sidings to the adjacent agro-chemical factory had closed in the 1970's and by 1981 the box was just controlling the crossing and a block section on the branch to Maidstone West. With just an hourly passenger service and a few through freights rationalisation came in 1986 when the crossing was converted to an AOCL Automatic Open Level Crossing. The block section was abolished with Tonbridge panel box fringing with Wateringbury instead. The box closed on 22/06/86 being demolished almost immediately. The open crossing proved problematic because of its location beside the station and after several near misses with pedestrians and several accidents with trains striking cars the crossing was upgraded to ABCL with barriers.
Agat 18 (by BeLomo)
Industar 104 2.8/28
exposure with icons
Fomapan 200 @ 160
Thornton two baths (SdM)
Epson V600
With the CN and NS dispatcher giving approval, this westbound Norfolk Southern manifest begins to pull across the diamond behind a pair of C44-9Ws.
An unidentified Q6 wheezes past the wonderful gantry by Tyne Dock shed with a long train of hoppers. Only a few upper quadrant signals have replaced the original North Eastern lower quadrant examples.
Goal: A collegiate leadership retreat called "interesect." To play off the name the theme this year is "Signals." Calling us to pause and reflect at the interesections of our lives.
Audience: collegiate leaders
Direction: continue forward with the retreat name intersect
Project: front of a mailer
Other important info: I like candy
Few warning signals in nature are as blatant as the colors of the Aquatic Coral Snake (Micrurus surinamensis), and for good reason: it possesses a highly potent neurotoxic venom. Unique among South American elapid snakes, its venom appears to be specialized for its favored prey of fish and eels, although can undoubtedly be fatal for mammals as well. They are, however, very non-aggressive and bite only when attacked or accidentally stepped on – the latter of which is rare thanks to their gaudy coloration. Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.
It is the first Christmas illuminations this year. Here is crowded every year. I can watch this slowly now.
In Tokyo, I still wear a T-shirt every day because it is hot.
On October 5, 2013 in Marunouchi.
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今年最初のクリスマスイルミネーションです。 ここは毎年混雑するので、ゆっくり見るには今がいいかもしれません。
東京はまだ暑いのでぼくは毎日Tシャツを着ています。
2013年10月5日、丸の内にて。
Gorsey Bank signal box located by the Down & Up line alongside Gorsey Bank level crossing at Wirksworth
Gorsey Bank signal box was a Midland Railway Company type 2a design fitted with an 8 lever Midland Railway Company Tumbler frame that opened on 8th September 1890. The signal box was reduced to a non block post at some time and was scheduled to be closed and replaced by an Automatic Open Crossing Locally Monitored level crossing on 29th April 1979 but the work was postponed until 3rd June 1979. The signal box was acquired by Peak Rail and moved during 1986 to Buxton Station, and the lever frame was moved to the Derby Industrial Museum and installed in a replica signal box. Peak Rail moved the signal box from Buxton Station to Church Lane Crossing at Darley Dale in the 1990s
The signal box carried a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
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Giving the signal
Continental Cup Beach Volleyball Cairns.
A direct qualifier for the Rio 2016 Olympics
Thanks for looking
Cheers Claire :)
Seemingly oblivious to the worn out concrete pavement and faded crosswalk markings, this well-dressed man on his way to the office passes underneath one of Chicago's L train stations clearly showing its age.
Olympus PEN Mini E-PM2 with M. Zuiko 17mm f/1.8
The signal box at Welshpool - from the train, 30/6/83. The netting and posts are possibly ex- tablet catchers?
D1062 Western Courier arrives at Highley on 18-5-24 during the Saturday of the Spring Diesel Gala.
The working is the 13.45 Kidderminster to Bridgnorth service.
Ref: IMG_9384 SVR 18-5-24
Here's a sign of changing times. We spent 2 weeks in Scotland, and I can count the number of railway photographs taken on the fingers of 2 hands. Stopping at Blair Atholl on our way to Inverness to drive the "NorthCoast500" route I was surprised to see Blair Atholl signal box still open and operative. For some reason I had thought that the Highland main line had all been re-signalled some years ago. I was wrong.
Blair Atholl box was a Highand Railway design dating from about 1890.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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0-4-4T Class H and its vintage coaches are held by the signal jst outside Horsted Keynes Station, waiting for clearance to proceed.
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 :)
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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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.
Chilling out with this music: Of Porcelain - Signal The Captain
[Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont]
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.