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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.
BR LNER Pyewipe Road Level Crossing and Signal Box (British Railways Eastern Region 1958) on 2nd December 1989 (Copyright Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved)
Located on the line from Ulceby to Great Coates and Marsh Junction.
I return to the Land of Enchantment once again to shoot the semaphores aligning the BNSF Raton and Glorieta Subdivisions on the route of the Southwest Chief. These will likely not live beyond 2019, so I anticipate grieving their loss. In the meantime, they still work hard on the New Mexico plains.
9/2022 - Los Cerrillos, NM
Farewell to the semaphores. This may be the last I get to see them. If you look carefully, you can see the new signal standing between the two semphores.
Mesmerizing Scene Of Saffron Sky !!
The Vibrant Colours of Twilight and Vintage Styled Semaphore Signal are Indeed a Feast For The Eyes!
The Metre Gauge Semaphore Signal Standing At Outer Of Palia Kalan Station !!
158 795 is almost incidental on it's approach to Appleby station with 1E23 13:40 Carlisle to Leeds. I took this more to show the signals and the track layout into the sidings and the North Eastern connecting branch.
The bracket signal on the left is listing at a jaunty angle and has been for at least 40 years!
Imagine this scene without the box and the pegs.
Copyright Stephen Willetts - No unauthorised use
The Semaphore Tower is located on Chatley Heath. The Tower was once part of a chain which was used to pass messages between the Admiralty in Whitehall and the Royal Naval Dockyard in Portsmouth , sort of a very early telegraph system using line of sight tower sending messages in Semaphore instead of wires . It was built in 1822 and is now the only restored surviving tower in a line of signalling stations that stretched from London to Portsmouth. The Tower is open to the public once a month between March and September - not sure since Covid though .
HTT folks
20.04: With the sun now getting low, 66547 heads past the semaphores back to Immingham with its empty coalhops.
This was one of 2 possible Q paths that could be run as needed.
4R22: Due 20:00, (Q) 18:00 Leeds Hunslet to Immingham F.Liner 66 empty FHH coal hoppers.
Owned since built by Porterbrook, and leased the same by Freightliner Group, 66547 was built by EMD (Works No. 20008269-22( and exported to the UK in 2001.
9/2022 - Los Cerrillos, NM
Amtrak 201 leads train #4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, by the 849 semaphore on the NMRX segment of the line.
CAF unit 197109 passes the semaphore Up distant signal at Deganwy on 24th February 2025 with 2D69 1413 Llandudno to Llandudno Junction.
I was surprised to see the semaphore still present as they are normally the first signals to be converted due to their importance. Unfortunately, the only trains that pass this way are generally in the form of these Spanish built units.
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.
Over the bank holiday weekend W25 signal at Whittlesea was removed as part of the final works to re-signal the area.
Due to its proximity to the level crossing (which remains with its manually operated wooden gates), the signal has not been replaced.
Other signals in the area have been replaced by LED colour lights in a like-for-like replacement which retains control from Whittlesea Signal Box.
On 31st March RailAdventure power car 43480 leads 0Q45 the 08:50 Button Wetmore - Wymondham (Mid Norfolk Railway) conveying fellow power cars 43162, 43160, 43312, 43238 & 43319 which have since been exported to Mexico.
By this date the semaphores for the Down line (towards Peterborough) had already been replaced.
For our final catch of this OCS train, we see it passing by the semaphores at mile 722, near Wagon Mound NM!
Semaphore at the west end of Chapelle for the main shows an approach indication, as Amtrak #4 approaches from the west.
Signals BS27 and BS33 at Banbury, with Banbury South Box behind. 21st May 2011. These two traditional GWR lower-quadrant signals were actually installed in 2010 in order to facilitate the speedy turnaround of diverted First Great Western services during the Reading remodelling. They were removed in 2016 when Banbury itself was remodelled and resignalled.
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Between Crabley Creek and Cave Crossing signal boxes, DB Cargo 60039 'Dove Holes' is about to drop down the grade towards Broomfleet in charge of the 12:25 Hedon Road Sidings to Rotherham Masborough loaded steel on Friday 25th November 2016.
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66099 returns from Immingham with another load of iron ore for the Scunthorpe steel works, this maybe on borrowed time too. 23.12.15.
It’s good to know there are still tucked away places in UK where semaphores abound. Peak Forest in Derbyshire is one such location. In this scene, 60044, 'Dowlow', having moved box wagons with aggregate in the left siding, returns to the stabling point. Meanwhile, 66176 behind, will depart shortly with the 6H52 Dowlow Briggs to Ashburys.
A1 no 60163 Tornado works into Droitwich Spa from the Bromsgrove direction with "The Sulis and Sarum" running from Tame Bridge (Wednesbury) to Salisbury and return 24-03-18
History begins today.... Tomorrow night these signals will be swept away.
29/10/2017 (Sun) 1720 Blackpool North 150134 + 150114 2N82 1547 Liverpool Lime Street - Blackpool North
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Directing traffic at Ikea. Well somebody needs to do it.
34046 Braunton running as 34052 Lord Dowding speeds across the level crossing at Moreton on Lugg heading the "Welsh Marches Express" from Crewe to Cardif on 4 May 2019.