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An image taken in 2013. Trying to clean up my hard drive and keep finding images that have not been worked on
Mongolian second railway line Bayantumen - Ereentsav. This 240km's long railway is located in far-east Mongolia and the line is directly connected to the far-eastern part of Russian Railways (Trans-Manchuria railway) and Borzya city. Train traffic is lower but very interesting, twice in a week freight-passenger mixed train and some short freight train runs with an old TEM2 shunter locomotive. The line had been in Soviet time used for mainly transporting uranium from Mardai mines and was considered as a Military strategical secret railway. Now, this railway line is open and normally working since collapsing of the Soviet Union and still uses semaphores and tokens in the signalization system.
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Class 47 1705 'Sparrowhawk' in gleaming new paint passes through Swithland at the GCR Diesel Gala, 14.4.18.
Took a trip to Harvey Norman today, need to get a new DeLonghie coffee machine, came away with a Canon 50mm, f1.8 STM prime lens. So I had a very productive shopping adventure. Need to go back to look at the coffee machines.
4 image stitch, Few problems with waves not aligning. But Happy with the first attempt.
An early autumn view of the Semaphores at Bridlington as 158861 departs with the 13:42 (1J11) to Sheffield.
Sunday 7th October 2018
Although the Christmas 2015 North Lincolnshire resignalling swept away some of the most well known semaphore signals in the UK, some that were less well known were also felled.
This is just north of Ulceby, where the Immingham Dock branch leaves the Barton on Humber branch. 153315 approaches Ulceby with a Barton on Humber to Cleethorpes service.
The semaphore at Van Dyne, Wisconsin drops to red as CNW GP7 4373, the trailing unit on train #290, passes on September 1, 1980.
A trip to Grimsby to get some of the semaphores sees 150148 at Friargate crossing with a Cleethorpes-Derby service, 12.9.88.
This Semaphore Saturday we'll make a quick stop at an iconic place where I've yet to photograph a train.
By 1986, there weren't very many semaphore signals in service on California railroads. This pair stood guard at the west switch of Hilt siding, a couple of miles inside the Golden State. These signals were removed a few years later, when Southern Pacific made the Siskiyou Line dark territory between Ashland and Black Butte.
Despite most semaphore signals being taken out of regular service years and years ago, it is quite surprising how many of these unique signals still stand alongside railroad tracks, operative or not. One of such cases is the distant signal for the NS interchange with the CNUR in downtown New Castle. The signal has long been taken out of service, but still sits right beside the New Castle Depot as it did in Nickel Plate Days. The Depot is now used as NS’s MOW office in New Castle, and now the CNUR ceases to exist, as their lease expired and NS took over operations once again starting today. The engine pictured (WBCR 6, an ex IC GP11 rebuild) is now back at home on the Wabash Central, where it was originally based on before coming to New Castle nearly 10 years ago, and the CNUR is now another short line in the history books. Pictured; after a short day working Neal Scrap Metals, the only customer on the CNUR, the train begins to finish up the day, perfectly framed by the station and the default semaphore signal for the NS interchange. In the background NS 143, a near 260 car monster freight is creeping south. Conductor Branden Bailey (pictured) mentions to me how trains can’t be and shouldn’t ever be that long or problems will occur. He would be correct, as the train would stall out climbing the hill at Hagerstown about a half hour later.
Amtrak #4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, splits "the blades" at the west end of the siding at Chapelle, NM. These old semaphore signals date back to at least the 1930s and are pretty much the last of their kind still in use. This stretch of BNSF's Raton subdivision only sees two trains a day, Amtrak's #3 and #4. With the implementation of PTC looming, the final days for these old blades will be at hand sooner than later, and frankly its amazing they've lasted this long!
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153325 passes the magnificent signal gantry that used to guard the Lincoln line at Wrawby Junction, while forming 2T11 08:26 Lincoln to Grimsby Town. 27/11/2003. This gantry was removed a long time before the rest of the semaphores around Barnetby were taken out of use. I'm so glad I got some shots of it, even if this one is only of a Class 153.
Warship D832 Onslaught departs Weybourne for Sheringham. The Signals here are a mix of GN somersault Signals (starter) and BR/LNER upper Quadrants. 832 was to traffic in February 1961 and one of the last withdrawn in December 1972,so a very short period in service with BR.
HST Powercar sits awaiting departure at Worcester Shrub Hill on 8-2-19, a fine display of semaphore signals can still be found here.
The working is the 1W27 1322 London Paddington to Worcester Foregate Street Great Western Railway service
43086 is on the rear of the train.
The semaphores will outlive the appearance of HST's in Worcester [though CrossCountry diversions may provide the occasional siting!]
visiting the Great Central Railway for the January 2024 gala from the Severn valley railway 75069 seen at Beeches Road signals
Blackpool North station still has a good range of semaphores. A view from Blackpool Tower saves the hassle of trying to take photos on the station due to the lack of cooperation from the staff.
3rd June 2022 in a near timeless scene , Cravens unit at Ramsbottom station on the East Lancashire Railway Jubilee weekend
Details. Something that makes a train diorama alive. I always try to use them to highlight the context. Here - industrial installation. Cannot wait to see 5 or 6 of them in a line.
The upper arm is operated with a lever on the base of the semaphore. Lower arm and shunting signal is changed by hand.
Yes, light signals would be much easier to build and way easier to operate, even remotely. I decided to go for mechanical signals just because of the old school look taking the cost of very, very limited operating capabilities during a show.
The day was diabolical, there was very little going on in East Kent worthy of getting a soaking for. But i had a free day and i was a long way from home.
I then noticed that the Kent test train had been activated on RTT. Its test circuit would take it through Deal on the East Kent Coast. A place where very little of interest happens in railway terms but the home of the last semaphores in Kent.
I had to make the effort, I may never get another chance.
So...on the wettest of wet miserable days and the greyest of skies the 1107 Tunbridge to Tunbridge test train heads for Rochester beneath the beautiful 1930s signal box and a fine home starter signal and also a very wet reasonably enthusiastic enthusiast.
73965 leads 73961.