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A few long term rail contacts on Flickr will know that for many years my dad has been looking for an image of this signal box. It was the first place he worked and no matter where he looked or who I spoke with we couldn't find a photo of the box. Everything changed this week. Not just one picture but two came to light. This one was purchased by dad and shows the box and an unknown entourage at some point prior to the Great War.
The box was built by the Great Northern Railway in 1893 and closed by British Railways in 1970. I will let dad supply a few additional notes.
Signalmen were: Clifford Dickinson, Arthur Burton and Bill Humphreys, working three shifts in turn, 6.0 am to 2.0 pm, 2.0 pm to 10.0 pm and 10.0 pm to 6.0 am, days, afternoons and nights, Monday to Saturday, starting a new shift every Monday. The branch line to Castleford and Methley did not operate on Sunday. Train register lads: John Firth and Keith Matthews, working days and afternoon shift alternate weeks.
The box controlled the up and down main and goods lines to and from London to Leeds, the branch line to and from Methley, the East and West line to Robin Hood, the Lofthouse colliery sidings lines and the goods yard at Outwood. Quite busy at times.
I have a recollection of a then, circa 1954, experimental diesel unit testing on the Methley to Leeds line, it deliberately stopped on the steepest part of the 1 in 49 uphill gradient near the junction with the main line, then set off again with no problems. Steam engines often needed a ‘banker’ engine at the rear to assist them up the incline. My signalman friend remarked, “Well John that’s thefuture, we won’t need steam engines when these take over”.
Train register lads duties were: recording, the exact time of all bell contacts relating to the passage of each train in the registers, (eight entries per train). There were different bell codes for each type of train, a light engine was 2-3 rings, an express passenger train 4 bells, etc. Other duties were receiving and transmitting Morse code telegraph messages, telephoning Leeds Central Control with times of VIP trains, etc. Non clerical duties included keeping the box clean and levers polished, washing the many windows, emptying the chemical toilet and burying it behind the box. Plus the unofficial task of operating the box whilst the signalman had his breakfast or tea. Happy days.
In the late stages of evening twilight, 60100 working the 6D03 Tinsley - Immingham loaded steel train passes Barnetby East signal box.
With the raining falling steadily, PKP Class Ol49 2-6-2 No.Ol49-59 leaves Włoszakowice station with the 77544 11:48 Wolsztyn-Leszno train.
Departure/Arrival Tracks at Union Pacific Bailey Yard are a busy place. Inbound coal, out going Manifest and a inbound stack train in the back ground all make for a very busy place to watch trains. For over two hours we never were out of site of a headlight of an incoming or out bound train.
Robe Obelisk
South Australia
The tip of Cape Dombey at Robe is a petrified forest of rock and stone. At its end sits the Obelisk which used to guide ships into the shelter of Guichen Bay. With time, the erosion will bring the obelisk down into the ocean but for now, it stands as its namesake. Sunset on friday night was absolutely incredible to witness !
strobist: one alien bee 1600 socked beauty dish camera right, one slave strobe camera left. Model: Mickey Saldana
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Just stale air, flickering lights, and posters for parties that never happened.
He waited anyway. Some things don’t show up on maps.
#ConcreteJungle #UndergroundMood #LateNightVibes #LiminalSpaces #UrbanGrit #NarrativeFragment #StreetTension
Class 40 40154 makes a splendid sight as it passes under signals on it,s way into Chester station with the 13:44 Llandudno to York service. 40,s seen that Saturday were 40179 Crewe. Chester 40025/28/80 40122/135/137/144/153/169/195. 30/06/1979.
image Kevin Connolly - All rights reserved so please do no use this without my explicit permission
Opened 04/07/1914 (Replaced Older Box)
Closed 29/03/1985 When Exeter Panel to over control
VT 3 Bar Frame 4" Centres
66622 rolls slowly towards signal 862 hauling 6V18, the 11:20 Allington - Whatley empties at Fore Bridge foot crossing near Little Bedwyn
It was following a Bedwyn stopping service and had to await its move into the reversing siding. The signal cleared just as I took the shot
Traffic signals both annoy and fascinate me. On the day-to-day basis, I absolutely hate them. My car seems to employ a hidden device that causes all signals to suddenly turn red right in front of me. People that drive with me have even commented on this. I almost never catch a green light. Some signals are especially troublesome; I can easily go 0-20 or more at some intersections, far worse than you might get with a coin toss. But I'm able to put all of that aside when I'm out walking. At that point the signals no longer dictate my movement and become more of a curiosity. I'm really taken with a childlike fascination watching the color lights, particularly when contrasted against the evening sky. I found myself standing under this signal the other night. This is the type that simply blinks on and off rather than go through a green, yellow, red cycle. A quiet summer evening with almost zero traffic afforded me the opportunity to stand in the road looking up at this sentinel light, flashing red in my direction, amber in the opposite. I could see the color cast down on the street in front of me, monotonously on and off, on and off. I could hear the corresponding click of a relay in an electrical cabinet on an adjacent pole, keeping time with the lights (actually controlling the lights but that's not as fun of a thought). Part of the fascination is seeing the cycle repeat endlessly, even though no vehicles are present. Don't know why this attracts me; it just does. I live not too far from a regular traffic light, the three-color changer, the only one in the entire village. When the trees are bare in winter, I can see it from my bedroom window even though it is some distance away. Sometimes I watch it at night, ever changing, yet somehow soothing. So odd to think that the next morning I will go right back to cursing the damn things. Love-hate.
NS 20A with the "PRR" heritage unit leading cooks through the Pennsylvania RR signals at PT 225 on the NS Pittsburgh Line. January 2019
Even in August 1984 this gantry was remarkable in having wooden signal arms.
I never understood how it escaped any sort of modernistion to metal signal arms!
Another shot from inside Banbury North signal Box, this time looking North. Mark Bennett is on the left, who gave a great demonstration of the operations withing the box.
30th September 2016.
Demolition has already started.
66116, seen passing Settle Junction signal box with a gypsum train in tow, gets up clag as it heads up the long drag on the Settle and Carlisle line which comprises almost 22 miles of continual climb to reach the summit at Ais Gill. The train is the 6M97 Tees Dock - New Biggin British Gypsum.
22 octobre 2014, Corniglia.
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Despite the fact that I very rarely take photos of light engines, I seem to have taken my fair share of Class 20s running light! Here 20214 and 20169 pass a line of stored vans and those magnificent signal gantries at Wrawby Junction. 14th May 1992.
The distant signal for East Cuba had already been a non-searchlight for some time, but on this trip I noted that a 2nd head has been added for the westbound aspect - allowing for additional aspects can be displayed and also is a sure sign that the Searchlights at East Cuba have been replaced.
-BNSF SD70ACe #8592, BNSF ES44C4 #7091 leading power
-BNSF Train Q-STLLAC
-BNSF (ex-Frisco) Cuba Sub, MP 83.6
-Hollingshead Rd Crossing, East of Cuba, MO
-September 16, 2018
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Pictures taken at the Drift Union Invitational 2014 at Penticton Speedway, British Columbia, Canada.
Signal du Bougès, which at 1,421m is both the highest point on the ridge and marks our highest point for the day’s walking. The grey clouds are an ominous sign of what was to come.
Chemin de Stevenson-2018-D9-15: Day 9 of 13 – Le Pont de Montvert to Florac: Walking the Chemin de Stevenson (GR 70 Robert Louis Stevenson Trail) in the south of France.