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33043 has the road from the Southern Railway semaphore at Exeter Central with the 13.40 Exeter St Davids - Brighton on the 20th February 1982. The signal box still carries the green Southern sign . The train here is load 7 but in the summer would be up to load 12 with a pair of 33s usually from Hither Green. Five years earlier saw the end of Hastings DEMUs on this service.
The MP crossing the GTW back in 1982 with semaphores and tower still in full operation.This was one busy day for all of us
Barnetby, south Yorkshire, is one of the busiest rail junctions in the UK. The semaphore signals survive for the moment, but the end is in sight. A class 66 GMD heads an empty iron ore train from the Tata steel mills in Scunthorpe back to Immingham.
Alas, the semaphores were removed over Christmas 2015.
The suburban station of Blankenese in Hamburg still is sporting semaphores. Two EMUs of class 474 have arrived from Wedel on the line from the left, reversed and are now leaving with a new driver towards the city.
NRM steam engine Bill seen charging up grade just after Noonies Kiosk on the return trip from Fort Glanville on Sunday 1st of November 2015.
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.
Semaphore station built by the Admiralty c.1820. Later C19 wings, now a private residence. Grade II listed. Pewley Hill, Guildford, Surrey, UK.
10/2020 - Levy, NM
I was set up here at West Levy for Amtrak 3 but ended up having to move before the train arrived.
2007 marked the 11th year of my birthday railfan trips. That would mean that it was time to revisit locations.
I visited the ex. Erie east of Port Jervis in 1997. 2007 would find me reversing my direction shooting the line, this time starting at Moodna and working west.
Artifacts were starting to appear at the Port Jervis turntable area, like this semaphore. Kodachrome scan..
The now removed semaphore signals at Cootamundra south, just on the northern side of the Gundagai Road level crossing. All the semophore signals have been replaced by colour light signals and both Coota North and South boxes are closed and all signals are controlled from the control centre in Junee.
48153 is shut down but soon to be prepped and plcaed on 3128 empty Bomen to Sandown fuel train.
Thurs 8th Dec 2005
Check this link out to the old signal Gantry from the Nothern end of Cootomundra which is now on display out side the station. www.flickr.com/photos/clp422/6236774284/in/set-7215762694...
A westbound BNSF freight on the Montana Rail Link passes the mile 192 semaphores east of St. Regis, Montana, on the afternoon of July 2, 2001. I miss the blades (and the SD40-2s).
822 races through the semaphores at Springer, NM. It was a spirited chase from Wagon Mound to get this final shot.
This picture was taken from a locomotive cab in December 1996 on the approach to Furness and Midland Junction, Carnforth, with Bottom End sidings on the left.
Carnforth F&M Jc signalbox (that controlled the signals here) can be seen to the right of the main latticed gantry post. The signal in the off position is for the route curving to the right, in the up direction towards Carnforth station.
The left hand doll on the gantry is for the straight ahead - Little North Western - route towards Settle via Wennington. The straight-ahead route was joined by a link from Carnforth station forming a triangle of lines with a signal box at each of the three junctions. Carnforth East Junction signalbox is just visible through the mist appearing to be on the track, though the line actually curves away to the left.
The armless doll on the right of the gantry is a relic of the steam age (I suppose it all is) where the up and down goods lines joined this route immediately before the up and down main lines seen here. The goods lines provided a double track avoiding line behind the station, it connecting to the many sidings and of course the locomotive shed.
10/2020 - Wagon Mound, NM
This BNSF train wasn't here when I showed up in NM two weeks prior. Was nice to shoot something other than Amtrak even though I didn't get it moving.
A second shot captured at Par on a very grey and dull 16 March 2024 shows how different the view west of the station is now since the re-signalling project was completed a few days earlier, just behind the train is a signal post devoid of its two semaphore signals, I presume that at some time in the future it will be demolished, possibly the next time there is a line closure in the area. For the record, 43004 'Caerphilly Castle' leads 2P90, the 13.15 Penzance to Plymouth, 43189 'Launceston Castle' is at the rear.
Framed by the signal, Class 47/3 47367 heads towards the level crossing at Garvestone on the Mid Norfolk Railway during the Spring Diesel Gala.
155345 approaches Hebden Bridge station while working the 13:46 York to Liverpool Lime Street service. 17/6/90. Michael's use of a big telephoto has given a good view of the "home" signal which stood east of Hebden Bridge station at the time. Since removed in favour of a colour light, of course.
97302 and 97304 wait on the chord at English Bridge Junction, Shrewsbury underneath the semaphores with 6W70 Talerddig to Bescot empty autoballasters waiting for a Bescot driver to take over.
They arrived around 3 and a half hours early, so I missed them on the Cambrian. So I was glad the Bescot Man took his time taking them over! Sunday, 23.2.14
A fine array of semaphore signals at Aberdeen not long before they were replaced by colour lights and the track rationalised. Note the 08 shunting goods wagons in Guild Street yard on the left and the mk1 sleepers on the right, 1 May 1980
Possibly the very last time you could see class 20s and semaphore signals at Bridlington - the locos were supposed have been superseded on the RHTT workings after their 'final' year last year and Bridlington is due to be re-signalled in February.
This of course will see the end of mechanical signalling in East Yorkshire sadly.
The working is the only daytime one the coast line has seen this year, being off gave an opportunity to take photos from somewhere other than the signal box!
20132 leads 20118 on 3J51 York to York via Scarborough, Ferriby and Scarborough,
Down Home No.1 is showing a proceed aspect for a couple seconds longer as unique-looking BL32 emerges from the shadows and leads BL33 and empty PN grain train 7937V around the final corner into Ouyen Yard to load. 18/8/24
J. Neils Lumber Co. 5 makes its debut public run past the Olson Road semaphores at the Illinois Railway Museum today.
The lower quadrant centre balanced wooden faced semaphores at Shrewsbury Station are reflected in an ATW Coradia Class 175 as it heads out of Platform 7 heading south, Sunday 10.8.14
After seeing Amtrak Train 3 pass us, we wanted to catch Train 4 passing one of the few remaining semaphore signals that have been in service for 100 years. We knew that the two trains would meet in Glorieta, about 34 miles down the tracks, so we headed for Bernal.
Upon our arrival, I was amazed at what a sweet spot this is. A nice S curve to the north, and a sweeping curve to the south, plus an easy access to the signal. After a short period of time, Amtrak's EB (northbound) Southwest Chief, AKA Train 4 appeared around the curve with AMTK 10 and AMTK 202. We could hear it coming up the grade.
The Santon ores from Immingham to the complex of steel works around Scunthorpe have recently been largely worked by class 60's, the heavy hoppers only half filled due to the sheer weight of the cargo.
This is the arse end of 6T22 Immingham-Santon approaching Wrawby Junction with 60024 tugging. The train turns right here for the short sprint to it's Santon terminal. The intensive nature of the workings and short turn round times meant that 60024 was a regular sight throughout the day, with 60059 performing on the other circuit.
8 June 2015
... will these classic but elderly semaphores continue to stand.
CSX has begun the work to replace these sentinels which have guarded the Monon main line for nearly a century. Word is that they will fall on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
This southbound CSX local managed to time itself perfectly in between NS trains on the nearby Lafayette District. We spent a total of five minutes in Romney catching this train.
A very late running late Amtrak State Hoosier train passes past the classic semaphore that has been in place for almost 100 years in Feb 2008 .This would be the last year the semaphores would be in place at North Romney Ind.Its near 10 below zero this day
Semaphore signals protect the layout at Lowestoft Central as 37425 approaches with 37423 on the 14.55 from Norwich.
3.9.1991 46229 Duchess of Hamilton nearing Chester with Tuesday's North Wales Coast Express from Holyhead to Crewe.
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