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The station was designed by Frank Thompson and opened by the North and East Railway in 1844. The main station building was abandoned by British Rail in 1978 and remained unoccupied until being converted into a restaurant. The main station building was given Grade II listed status on 30 April 1971.
The station's signal box, built in 1876, is one of only two surviving examples of the GER Type I signal box.
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
Viewed from the overbridge North West of the station and looking back towards Ulceby here we see 66512 passing through Goxhill station and heading towards Oxmarsh Crossing and Barton with 0D67 the 12.10 Grimsby Town to Grimsby Town.
What is most extraordinary is that, with the Barton to Cleethorpes service coming the other way, the pegs are off in both directions !!
When this might have last happened is anybody's guess ?
Goxhill box is of Great Central origin and controls a fine set of mechanical gates operated by a gate wheel.
The line from Ulceby to Barton upon Humber is a real throw back, predominantly wooden sleepers, 60' bull head rail, mechanical signalling and a two hourly service for the bulk of the day.
It is normally the exclusive preserve of a Northern 153 unit ambling backwards and forwards, all stations, from Cleethorpes to Barton upon Humber.
An extra unit does pop up in the morning to provide one extra shuttle for the masses of commuters to Grimsby and Cleethorpes.
It was with some excitement then that I learnt of a Freightliner route learner scheduled to run Monday to Friday this week. Could there be a return for freight from New Holland, something not seen for many years ? No, no such luck. It transpires that the drivers are familiarising themselves with the line in readiness for future engineering works.
Even so, the sight of anything other than a 153 or the very occasional enthusiasts special on this line is of interest so when I saw the light engine from Leeds, Midland Road amble past me during a morning shift at Elsham I decided to spend the afternoon chasing it around the land that time forgot, these are the results.
66512
Goxhill Station
0D67 12.10 Grimsby Town - Grimsby Town.
The second of four shuttles from Grimsby to Barton and return.
14.40 Hrs Wednesday 22nd April 2015
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.
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.
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.
A winter sunset silhouettes the power lines and train order signal at the former Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific station on Warson Road at Lackland, Missouri, USA, 22 December 1984.
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.
6P41 0957 Harwich Refinery Crls Slvs to North Walsham Gbrf condensate tanks service is seen passing through Ipswich station at 1116.
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/00781
This railway signal is just standing in the middle of the parking lot in front of Bathurst railway station here in NSW Australia.
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.
Signal Fire
12"16"
original acrylic painting by Chelsea Rose
Blogged here: lucidrose.blogspot.com/2015/03/sasquatch-and-zodiac-art-s...
Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited speeds through Pine Junction on the NS Chicago Line, passing a westbound Wolverine and eastbound CP auto train, both of which can be seen under the signal bridge in the background.
Locomotives:
AMTK 52 P42DC
AMTK 18 P42DC
Picture of last year's Million Bulb Walk holiday lights, processed in GIMP and slightly databent in Audacity.
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
The impressive signal box at Aberystwyth, at the terminus of the Cambrian Railways main line. It was built by Signalling Contractors, Dutton & Co. and was to the Type 3 design with roofed landing. It opened in 1893 and contained a frame of 71 levers, soon extended to 78 levers to cope with expansion at the station. When the GWR absorbed the Cambrian Railways system after the 1923 Grouping, they installed a frame of 100 levers of their own manufacture. With rationalisation of the station layout, the box closed on 25th April 1982 and the line was then controlled by 'No Signalman Token' Regulations from Dovey Junction. This was superceded in 1988 by Radio Token Block controlled from Machynlleth. Note the fine concrete post lower quadrant signal on the left. There was a number of these concrete post signals on the former Cambrian Railways system and probably dated from the early days of GWR control. The upper quadrant bracket signal on the right, is much later and dates from the time after the London Midland Region assumed responsibility for the line.
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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After Edale it was off to Earles arriving at 1050'ish.
A lovely box, it's looks spoilt by it's flat roof which like Great Rocks is the result of a fire .
Absolute block both ways again and here there's an IB section in both directions.
The box and sidings opened in 1929 with the opening of the cement works located at the end of the branch.
The narrower centres and the location of the frame in the back of the box give a clue to it's more recent heritage.
Not a lot has changed here over the years, the IB's were introduced to counteract closures of boxes at Norman's Bank (towards Edale) and Hope / Bamford. The box diagram is dated 1982 and is very little altered. A busier box than it's Grade 3 neighbors on each side it is thus a 4.
The cement works were developed by G & T Earle and thus surely the Earles should have an apostrophe but it hasn't ??
Some details of the branch and it's history here...
sinfin.net/railways/hope/index.html
Earles Sidings Signal Box.
11.01 on Wednesday 6th May 2015.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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at the gloswarks railway manor class 4-6-0 7820 dinmore manor draws forward from it's train at toddington --framed by a pair of typical great western signals
Eye candy for a rather important talk I'm about to give.
Animated version below (give it time to load).
Created for a display at Romsey Signal Box museum. The diagram is based on the superb work of the late G.A Pryer, with Thanks and acknowledgement. Photos of the signals by Andy Moody and Neil Kearns, except where marked.
The signalman at Pottington hangs precariously out of his box window; instead of using the stand provided; to hand-over the token to an approaching DMU from Ilfracombe, for the short single line section to Barnstaple Town, which can be seen to the rear of the box. The structure was literally built on the bank of the Taw estuary, and although the waters are tranquil on this day, they must have been very rough at times at this exposed location and the box somewhat draughty. The structure is an LSW Type 3b stone-to floor box which opened on 4th August 1890 when the section between here and Braunton was doubled. It possessed a Stevens & Sons Tappet frame of 19 levers and originally the single line to Barnstaple Town was worked by Tyer's No.3 tablet, later replaced by Key Token. With the singling of the line to Ilfracombe in December 1967 using the former Up line, Pottington was reduced to ground frame status to oversee the adjacent swing bridge. It closed for good along with the Ilfracombe branch on 5th October 1970
Lenophila sp. (Maybe Lenophila dentipes)
Family: Platystomatidae
Order Diptera
Members of this family tend to be attracted to malodorous substances such as decaying fruit, faeces and carrion. The larvae are found in dead animals including human corpses and hence they can be used in forensic investigations.
They have also reportedly been found in root nodules such as in legumes.
The family are commonly found in Australasia.
This fly appears to mimic a spider as it waddles around with its wings outstretched. It had me fooled for a few moments!
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