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With the sun starting to set this semaphore will soon be history as new colour light signals are replacing these baeautiful functional works of art
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The name Iris is Greek and it means rainbow for its many colours. However, most irises are shades of blue or purple.
Lately I have seen them white, yellow and mix of yellow and white.
The majority of irises that we see today are hybrids of the originals.
The iris has been around for many centuries, and many artists have chosen to paint them.
There are several famous paintings of the flowers. From 1888 to 1890, Van Gogh painted at least four paintings of irises.
Monet painted "Iris" sometime between 1914 and 1917.
Not only is the iris a beautiful flower, but also they have several uses.
As a live plant they are used as a water purifier.
They are ingredients in some perfumes, homemade toothpaste, pottery and herbal medicines.
The stylised iris, fleur-de-lis, descends from the white iris which is native to Florence, Italy and which grew even in its city walls.
This white iris, displayed against a red background, became the symbol of Florence until the Medici family, to signal a change in political power, reversed the colours making the white one red and setting in motion a centuries-long breeding program to hybridise a red iris.
Catherine de Medici carried this symbol of Florence to Paris when she married the king of France where this most famous of irises acquired its nickname, fleur-de-lis.
The iris has been associated with France as Louis VII adopted it as a symbol in the 12th Century.
In Flowers'-language: Iris means faith; hope; wisdom and valour
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Approaching from the Crewe direction, 66512 leads 4V20 Fiddlers Ferry power station to East Usk Yard, empty coal, towards Shrewsbury.
66165 heads the 6G07 13:50 Fowey Dock to Goonbarrow china clay empties carefully over the bridge and level crossing, passing the lovely semaphores, (controlled by St Blazey box), before picking up speed on the final part of it's short journey.
The line here is unusual having a watercourse to either side of the embankment, a stream to one side and the former canal to Par harbour.
18th October 2018.
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Semaphore. Semaphore is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located in north-west of Adelaide on the Gulf St Vincent coastline of the LeFevre Peninsula about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the Adelaide city centre.
This poor guy was the resident star attraction in a hardware come plant shop in Semaphore South Australia. I stood for a while looking at the details in his face and the array of tiny feathers under his eye.
2015 has not yet seen it's first sunrise in Wagon Mound, NM as searchlights stare at empty track in the 3am hour. I was driving from an assignment in Colorado to an assignment in New Mexico
45305 conveniently obscures the ugly pylons as it passes the semaphores at Swithland Sidings during a Timeline Events photo charter
Passing the array of semaphore signals at Levisham, Deltic class 55 no. 55009 'Alycidon' approaches with the 14.23 service from Pickering to Grosmont on 13th June 2025.
A Louisville bound Indiana railroad train passes the former Monon semaphores at Saltillo south of Orleans, Indiana.
A couple of miles from Blackpool North, 150144 passes Carleton Crossing while forming the 1820 from Manchester Victoria.
Carleton Crossing was the last signal box before Blackpool North, and was built by the LMS to an LNWR type 5 design in 1924.
It was abolished, along with Blackpool North, in early 2018. The route is now electrified.
Ferkeltaxe DR 172 735-3 is leaving while 132 047-2 and 110 510-5 are waiting for departure. Stralsund Hauptbahnhof, April 23rd, 1979.
I&M 31 passes a set of classic semaphore signals at the Monticello railway museum in Monticello, IL.
SCT013 and SCT012 lead 5BM9, a SCT Brisbane to Melbourne intermodal train.
The semaphore signal visible is one of three semaphores remaining at Mittagong. The signal was used to authorise down trains into the now removed up refuge.
The disused brick platform visible on the left was the dock platform.
Mittagong, NSW.
Friday 3 July 2020.
One of the Inter7City Scotrail HST sets headed by 43183, passes the rather lovely 1877 built Caledonian Railway Type 1 box at Errol on the Perth to Dundee line.
The signal box controls the level crossing and some fine semaphores.
7th June 2019.
ScotRail Class 158 DMU 158732 speeds past the semaphore signals at Blackford on the back of a Glasgow Queen Street to Inverness service.
Units: Class 158 DMU 158738 and Class 170 DMU 170434.
Location: Blackford crossing, Perth & Kinross, Scotland.
Shrewsbury station and its environs still has an abundance of semaphore signals, a mixture of both upper and lower quadrant variants. A Transport for Wales Class 158 unit waits to depart with a service to Aberystwyth. 11-10-23.
37425 heads up the grade past the semaphores at Clipstone West Junction with the 1Q08 Derby-Derby via High Marnham, Worksop and Thoresby test train, 23.4.15.
26.8.2021.
SR Maunsell designed 'S15' Class 2-6-0 No 825 approaches Levisham station and its fine array of lower quadrant semaphore signals with a Pickering - Grosmont passenger service.
NYMR.
Brit No.70000 Britannia heads south along the Welsh Marches passing an attractive array of semaphore signals at Woofferton Junction, heading Saphos Trains "The Welsh Marches Whistler" on 8 June 2022.
66007 passes the remaining semaphore signal at Newport's East Usk Yard with an empty MGR. Taken circa 2000. Canon EOS 5, Fuji Superior 200asa.
Columbia River Belt Line "Skookum" #7 splits the semaphore signals leading into the Sunol depot at the Niles Canyon Railway
Alternatively titled Blades of Glory , but how many puns can you fit into one Photostream, right? Amtrak 122 leads the eastbound Southwest Chief between the ancient Santa Fe semaphore signals at Milepost 722.1 on BNSF's Raton Subdivision a little east of Wagon Mound, New Mexico. This was a day trip down from Denver, and it was very much so worth it.
Amtrak train 4 splits the Santa Fe semaphores in Serafina New Mexico. We ended up shooting 3 new semaphore sets on what is likely our final views of the old signals. The days are finally numbered, with 2021 likely being their swan song (where have we heard that before). This will probably be my shot from the trip that turns out the best, but you cannot be mad seeing semaphores 21 years into the 21st century.
Meridian 222006 forming 1F28 1134 St Pancras International to Sheffield storms past the down home at Langham Junction as GBRf's 66709 waits in the loop with 6M60 1107 Whitemoor Yard to Mountsorell.
Trapped on the wrong side of the line this is severe crop of an experimental shot. Make of that what you may...
31st May 2019
10/2020 - Bernal, NM
I chose the 791 semaphore for my final shot of Amtrak with semaphores on this trip. I couldn't pick just one between these two so you get both.
An image taken in 2013. Trying to clean up my hard drive and keep finding images that have not been worked on
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
Passing Blackford's classic ex Calendonian upper quadrant semaphore, after a heavy shower of rain, is ScotRail unit 170417.
170417 is approaching Blackford whilst working 1A82, 1045 Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen ScotRail service, on the 25th March 2018. It is seen approaching here at 1128
A westbound train on the Minnesota Prairie Line passes the semaphore on display by the depot in Fairfax. This is the former Minneapolis & St Louis Railway line to Watertown, South Dakota. It crossed the Great Northern at Hanley Falls, Minnesota, and my understanding is that this semaphore once protected that crossing, but was actually one of the GN signals, not on the M&StL. In any case, it's nice to have a piece of signaling history preserved along this line.