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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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My last photograph of semaphore signals at Truro as the Cornish re-signalling gets seriously underway from 27 February 2024. Photographed from the end of the Falmouth branch platform (and I am just about 'behind the yellow line') Castle power car number 43187 'Cardiff Castle' leads 2P16, the 13.15 Penzance to Plymouth as it arrives at Truro on 20 February 2024, 43098 'Walton Castle' is out of sight at the rear.
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.
The sun sets on Tuesday 29th December 2015 as 37425 waits to depart Lowestoft with 2J83 15:48 to Norwich.
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.
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.
DCR's Brush Type 2 31 452 passes Bewdley North Signal Box as it runs round shortly after arriving with the 1105 shuttle from Kidderminster, on day one of Severn Valley Railway's 2016 Diesel Gala on Thursday 19th May 2016.
A Class 158 DMU departs for York on the 1B29 service. The semaphores and Blackpool North No2 signal box in this scene will survive until November 2017 when the station will close for 3 months as part of the Network upgrade with electrification and new signalling. The tracks to the right leading to platforms 1 & 2 have already been taken up and the semaphores removed to create a simpler track layout to make faster train arrivals and departures.
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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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 magnificent semaphores at Worcester Shrub Hill will, we are led to believe, remain in situ for a number of years yet, but it is difficult ot get a decent shot of a train at this location without signal posts and other clutter growing out of the top of the train (one of my pet hates). On 17 April 2000, Centro liveried Class 150 numbered 150102 has reversed direction whilst working the 09.43 Birmingham New Street to Hereford.
Took this photo because of the old Alco switcher. I now appreciate it for the semaphore, just as much, if not more.
Thanks to Skeletal Mess for the texture. I got this shot today and needed another one for my Train set - I love working right near this station - if makes for an interesting lunch break sometimes!!!
44871 and 45407 head away from Helsby , which unusual for a local station still has semaphores and sidings--although nature seems to be reclaiming the latter
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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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.
Irish Rail/Iarnrod Eireann General Motors 201 Class Locomotive No.225, at Rathdrum Railway Station with the Marino Point (Cork) to Skelton Abbey (Arklow) ammonia tanks, May 27th 1995.
© Robert McConaghie
Glanville Hall Semaphore.
In 1846 Captain John Hart, who later built the grand flourmills at Port Adelaide, subdivided part of his land to create the suburb of Glanville near Semaphore. Hart began building a grand mansion here in 1856 which he called Glanville Hall after the maiden name of his mother. Apart from his business interests John Hart went on to became a South Australian politician holding various seats for most but not all of the years between 1851 and his death in 1873. He was a minister and Treasurer in the 1850s and eventually became Premier of SA in 1865/66. It is sometimes stated that he was the first Premier of South Australia but that is just an issue of semantics. The first Premier of SA was Boyle Finniss in 1856 but it is true that the first time SA officially used the term Premier for our parliamentary leader was in 1865 when John Hart was the government leader.
The house was built as a grand castle like hall in 1856 with stables and outbuildings at the rear in the Tudor style with 14 main rooms. The castellated tower and billiard room were added in 1865 with the tower serving as a lookout for shipping coming up the Gulf of St Vincent to Port Adelaide. Although John Hart died in 1873 the house was not sold out of his family until 1912 when the surrounding gardens and lands were subdivided for more housing with the main house going to Magnus Wald. Glanville hall is now in Wald Street Glanville.. The Lodge house was sold off in 1926 again with more lands. Then a significant change of function was occurred in 1946 when the Anglican Church bought the house as a hostel for Aboriginal boys and youths. This idea was promoted and led by Anglican priest Percy Smith. Memorials in the grounds tell part of this storey. Many of the Aboriginal boys came from the Northern Territory and they were educated from Glanville Hall. The list of names of youths who lived here include nearly all of the South Australiana and many of the Australian Aboriginal male political and social leaders of the 1960s and 1970s and beyond. They all had to have their mother’s consent to board at St Francis and no one was coerced to live at St Francis House. Percy Smith said it was like a boarding school and not home for abandoned youths. The boys returned to their families at the end of each academic year. Name such as Ken Nayda, Harold Thomas, John Moriarty, Ken Hampton, Vincent Copley, Charlie Perkins etc. These young men were educated between 1946 and 1960 when it was called St Francis House. Glanville Hall was sold to the Port Adelaide Council in 1960 and closed as a boys’ home then. It has had various uses since then but is now a wedding and function centre leased from the Port Adelaide Enfield Council.
What looks like a stunted semaphore is actually a full-sized one on the Little North Western line which is beyond and below the Settle Carlisle line. 8F 48151 with the Pendle Dalesman excursion to Carlisle seen just after passing Settle Junction. The view is from Cleatop Wood which, according to the Woodland Trust web site, has "good views" and is "well worth a visit" - couldn't agree more.
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.
HST power car 43251 leads 1A12 07:00 Hull - London King's Cross past East Yorkshire's remaining manual signalling on 23rd May 2013. The train is approaching Gilberdyke.
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