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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!
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Old railroad signal towers abandoned by Southern Pacific as part of the installation of the mandated Positive Train Control System. Sage Ghost Town, Lincoln County, Wyoming.
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.
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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.
The power for the Driftwood Turn at the signal bridge at North Eldred, PA on June 22, 2019. It was the beginning of an epic chase with a huge crowd in pursuit.
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.
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A mix of fog and bushfire smoke fill the jamison valley on sunrise in the beautiful Blue Mountains, Australia.
Smoke signals from 'TheCastle'? The puffs of smoke generated from the exhaust certainly look to be smoke signals from the footplate of No. 7029 'Clun Castle' as it roars through Colton, on the approach to Rugeley Trent Valley', while heading the return Vintage Trains 'Chester Venturer' 1Zxx 1715 Chester - Tyseley Steam Trust charter on 27th March 2022. Copyright Photograph John Whitehopuse - all rights reserved
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.
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.
The last wild Griswold in the state of Iowa that I'm aware of, protecting an abandoned Iowa Traction line at 15th St NE in Mason City.
Resident signaller, Richard Jones, operates the levers inside Hereford signal box, most of which are active.
Vintage network infrastructure at Sellafield on 20 May 2015 as Direct Rail Services 37611 and 37218 head to the stabling point and eventually that morning back light engine to Carlisle, having previously brought in two nuclear flasks from Carlisle, originating from Torness during the previous day. The Sellafield site perimeter fencing and border strip on the rising ground to the left eerily takes me back to my time spent in Berlin during the 'Cold War' in the early 1970s!
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The old Hayling Billy Railway signal with Teenagers at play.
Can anyone read their signal !!!!
My good wife and I decided to visit the coast of Hayling Island for a cooldown and for a fish and chip supper yesterday evening.
On our way back I decided to stop for a few takes of Langstone from Hayling end. Whilst looking towards the bridge, suddenly I heard a lot of commotion towards the old railway line,only to see this.
I was quite pleased with these as I was shooting straight towards the sunsetting behind them and thought that they would make good silhouettes.
1054 [58926] LNWR Webb 0-6-2T Coal Tank during the Gala Weekend on the SVR departs from Bridgnorth October 1986
I have removed a modern streetlight which was annoyingly positioned just to the left of the loco. To many uprights next to each other! A little annoyed that the telegraph pole is not fully visible but at least there is an impression that the wires are not just hanging in mid-air.
I came across this photo in a folder from last year. Decided I liked this crop better than what I had previous uploaded eighteen months ago. I hear that this signal is not long for this world, in fact it may very well already be scrap. That's sad. Sandcut is a magical spot, though, and no trip to Tehachapi is complete without spending a few hours here.
Another angle of the Blackpool North semaphores and No.2 signalbox, with the 1U65 12:40 to Manchester Airport departing on 7th February 2017 (156452 on the rear). The cast iron lamp post is a remarkable survivor, and there are also a number of them remaining in the carriage/DMU sidings on the up side. This scene will be totally transformed by the end of the year.
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CSX AC4400CW 300, an unidentified ET44AC and AC4400CW 558 and 579 lead westbound empty coal hoppers through the New River Gorge at Thurmond, West Virginia, USA, 22 June 2018.
LMS Class 1F Half Cab 0-6-0T No 41708 heads a short pick-up style goods past Hotchey Hill Signal Box (LNER Type 15 - 1946) near Rushcliffe Halt - with a working from Ruddington (Great Central Railway Northern) on 29th August 2001
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BNSF 6830 leads NS train 31N south on the NS Brooklyn District in Mitchell, IL. after dropping a pair of NS motors and some cars to the Alton & Southern. Seen here splitting the signals near Lenox Tower on its way to the TRRA Yard.
Signal at the Genoa Museum. Was driving by in the morning when this possible juxtaposition caught my eye. Reversed course, parked and walked around to line up the shot.
View from inside the rebuilt 1861 Stockton & Darlington Railway signalbox at Kirkby Stephen East, HQ of the Stainmore Railway heritage railway, in the process of creating a museum dedicated to the famed Stainmore line and the North Eastern Railway. They say that when complete the box will be the oldest working signalbox in the world. Outside locomotive 2392, a NER 0-6-0 built in 1923, later to become LNER class J27. It's normally resident on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
Coasting on Main 1, CN 2793, still sporting CitiRail colors, passes under the signal gantry heading east through Durand, Michigan. Its about the pound the city's iconic diamond that crosses over the northern end of CN's Holly Sub. Times certainly have changed as back in 2017, I caught my last Draper Taper leader around this exact spot.