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1201, 4917 and 4532 shunt around Gulgong preparing to stable after spending the day on an ARTC ballast train unloading in Wollar.
A semaphore signal is visible on the right of the frame, which appeared to be disused.
Gulgong, NSW.
Sunday, 15 October 2022.
Now rare, surviving mechanical semaphore shunting signals.
On the left, dwarf ground signals. The lower signal has been cleared to authorise movement on the right-hand route into Lithgow yard. The elevated signal on the right protects the points and controls movement from the shunting neck into the yard.
10/2020 - Las Vegas, NM
I had no idea the Southwest Chief travels 79 mph on the segment of semaphores between Spring and Wagon Mound so I had to think on-the-fly where to set up next. I used the station stop at Las Vegas to gain some time. The code line runs along the main line. When I arrived at this location, the eastbound semaphore displayed approach, meaning the train was in the next block. A short time later it dropped to restricting shortly before Train 4 arrived.
Met-Cam Class101 3-car DMU approaches Machynlleth from the Dovey Junction direction in circa Summer 1984.
The cab has no obvious identification markers but maybe someone will have a thought.
The wonderful signal gantry at the end of the up platform at Redhill station on 15th June 1983 with a 4-VEP unit No.7812 forming a stopping London Victoria to Brighton service. The Coulsdon to Earlswood section via Redhill was the last bastion of semaphore signalling on the Brighton main line, with two boxes situated at Redhill, one visible in this view.
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On 13 October 2025 GWR's 800036 stops briefly at Liskeard with 2C27, the 12.55 Exeter St Davids to Penzance. In my opinion, the use of such a valuable asset to work a Class 2 passenger service that stops at virtually every station en-route is indefensible. It is likely to change in the coming months as the Class 175s will take over this kind of work displacing the IETs to the primary work for which they were intended.
This picture, taken from the western side of the railway at Corkickle (opposite No.1 box) looking north, shows the variety and complexity of signalling there in 1984. The sidings curving away to the left (above the pigeon loft) serve the cable worked incline to Marchon Chemicals, known locally as “The Brake”. It can be seen that the Brake sidings also have their own semaphore signals.
Kirkconnel’s down home signal is off for the passage of 1L78, Scotrail’s 0957 Carlisle - Glasgow, formed by 156430. This signal - supplied with sighting board, ladder guard and fall protection - replaced a taller version in 2019.
The siding here had been a loop In days past and that previous signal had a bracket to serve it.
601263 'Tornado' rolls down the grade into Worcester Shrub Hill station heading a 'Cathedrals Express' charter from Tonbridge on 19 March 2013.
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Three covered wagons head west on the Geneva sub division passing under the classic semaphores in 1989
KJM's 20033 with its awesome horns makes a grand entry into TKE as it glows along with the semaphore signals in the early morning sunlight.
This, as far as I know, is the only semaphore signalled stretch left in Karnataka.
Train: 16202 Shimoga - Bangalore InterCity Express.
Sempahore Beach and St Vincent Gulf, South Australia, near Fort Glanville - October 2022.
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Two examples of railway past still existing at Droitwich Spa station. Castle No 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe passes the marvellous array of lower quadrant Semaphores with "The Cotswold Explorer" from Tyseley to Oxford and return on Sat 8th Oct 2016.
Little did I know that brown hares used their ears as a means of semaphore communication !!!
Took a number of photos of this brown hare using the car as a hide, I didn't notice the different position of the ears until I had downloaded the photos.
Because you can never take just one. Because I'm behind in processing but couldn't stand looking at me on the front of my stream, because I like BW sunsets, because trees can talk to each other. Really. They can.
OK, the last part isn't really true. Well maybe.
The southern end of Stirling station is still bristling with semaphore signalling, controlled from Sirling Middle signalbox. In this view on 6th February 2013, Scotrail 170393 is leaving forming the 10:53 service to Glasgow Queen Street as 170460 rounds the corner forming a Glasgow Queen Street to Dunblane service. Opening on 4th August 1901, Stirling Middle was one of three large boxes that controlled the large station and the surrounding junctions. Two of these are still in use today, although the layout has, of course, been drastically reduced over the years. The Grade 'A'-listed box is of the Caledonian Railway's Northern Division 1889 design.
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Another location I was very keen to visit on 14 October 2024 was this one, Bromfield. 197045 leads 1V39, the 10.30 Manchester Piccadilly to Cardiff Central.
South bound Milwaukee Rd train passes under the classic CNW semaphores at Rand in Des Plaines IL Feb 1982
CMStP&P 117C on freight train approaching Deval, Des Plaines, IL in February of 1977. Roger Rasor photo.
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A few semaphores still stand on the Central Oregon & Pacific. This double set just north of Creswell is, for the present, intact, but out of service. MP636.
NRM steam engine Bill with a return service to Semaphore from Fort Glanville on Sunday 1st of November 2015.
This is a tourist railway operated by the volunteers of the National Railway Museum of Port Adelaide.
It runs from October to April.
Frisco 1630 takes the coach train out of the IRM grounds and passes a set of semaphores over a rural crossing during IRM's 2022 Showcase Weekend.
The painting gang set about refurbishing the metalwork on the Norbury Crossing distant signal at Middlewood on the Buxton branch.
Looking somewhat incongruous amongst the modern paraphernalia to be found on the platforms at Bognor Regis sit this pair of double semaphores. 377104 is seen departing and in the distance beneath the right hand pair is the 1938 built and still operational signal box.