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These photos are from way back - I took a walk around in the midst of the embers and burning trees on the slopes of Signal hill.
A British Rail Class 3F 0-6-0 goods engine is seen at Workington on the 19th of July, 1955.
This loco’ was built in Sept’ 1920 by the North British Locomotive Co. of Springburn, Glasgow for the Furness Railway.
Until 1896, the Furness Railway had no locomotives of its own design; all had been the standard productions of the various makers from whom they had been purchased, including Sharp - Stewart, one of the former companies which made up NBL.
The reason for the FR’s policy change regarding loco’ acquisition was the promotion of W.F. Pettigrew to locomotive superintendent, and it was he who was responsible for the introduction of this type, the first examples entering service in 1913.
Fitted with vacuum brakes & steam heating the type was set to work on the numerous heavy iron-ore and coke trains in Cumbria’s industrial West. This particular engine (works no.22574) was one of five built in 1920 and was numbered 33 by the FR.
Upon grouping it was renumbered by the L.M.S to 12510. Three of the type were still operational at the time of nationalisation in 1948 (nos.12508/9/10) and became BR’s 52508/9/10.
This particular engine was the last of its type to be withdrawn by British Rail, in August 1957.
Prominent in this view is Workington Main No.2 signal-box, unlike the 3F still going strong today. Also long gone are the houses of Berry St. & Southey St., the chimneys of which can be seen above and in front of the loco’.
I put these together for several reasons. The signal light from a bus showing direction, the signal light at the intersection showing who can procede, and the sun rising, the signal of a new day. To me they signal progressing forward.
This signal bridge is quite old-it once held several semaphores, and is a featured player in many old train shots from Joliet over the years. Its days are likely numbered, as new bridges and lights are replacing vintage bridges and older wayside signals everywhere as part of the Positive Train Control federal mandate. It runs over a group of BNSF and UP/Amtrak/Metra tracks.
Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) General Motors 111 Class Locomotive No.112 'Northern Counties', passing through Moira Railway Station with the 1500 'Enterprise' service from Belfast Central to Dublin Connolly, July 1992.
© Robert McConaghie
Heckington near Sleaford on the line from Lincoln to Skegness is the most perfect of country stations. A level crossing, functional signal box and semaphore signals and of course the 8 sail windmill.
Disused signal box at Baschurch nr Shrewsbury Shropshire.
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This is Malton Signal Box and is a NE S1a type from circa 1873. It has an IFS (Individual Function Switch) panel dating from 1966 but was extended 1993 when the box took over control of Heslerton and Rillington areas. All signals here are colour lights and the crossing is operated from a barrier control unit inside the box. The box works Absolute Block to Weaverthorpe and Kirkham Abbey.
By this point the snow was coming down fast but I think it is a nice addition to the shot.
Romsey Signal box in Hampshire is now open to the public and the volunteers there have collected a lot of railway memorabilia too.
Union Switch & Signal cast their logo and name into the face of this cast iron pedestal-style position light signal. I wonder how old this unit is.
Signals and a switch target on the Illinois & Midland Railroad, next to the Illinois Higher Speed Rail corridor.
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.
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.
Home Signal No 95.8 Controlled by Lithgow Coal Stage Signal Box. This signal is at stop whilst some shunting moves were taking place.
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.
Soldiers from Alpha Co., 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion deployed Sept. 25, 2019, in support of operations in the U.S. EUCOM area of responsibility. (U.S. Army photo by Tanja Linton)
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
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.
A look at the computer based Signalling in Meadmore Junction that is being developed. Currently the Pine Tree Loop is being used on this system while the Meadmore Junction area is still being run from the old Switch Panel.
Boxing Day Train Rides at the Diamond Valley Railway - Sunday 26-12-2021.
Front turn signal alternates with rear signal to balance load on batteries. Visible from a wide angel. Times is a 555IC with power gain transistors to handle the loads.
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.
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