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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.
An all too brief weekend to Cornwall with my wife, Jenny and the eponymous Eddi (the dog) gave me a very brief amount of time when I could inspect some of the results of the Cornwall Re-signalling project that was completed on 10 March 2024 with the new signals coming into use on Monday 11 March, I chose Par. The view captured on 16 March shows the western end of the station with GWR's 150233 arriving with 2N05, the 13.10 from Newquay that would terminate here. I have never been known for my progressive technological thinking, so I do not like the results, but it is what it is!
3.9.1991 46229 Duchess of Hamilton nearing Chester with Tuesday's North Wales Coast Express from Holyhead to Crewe.
Copyright Neville Wellings
172343 and 172336 pass Droitwich Spa signal box with 2V36 1340 Whitlocks End to Worcester Shrub Hill on 17th June 2022.
Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) 80 Class 3-car DEMU Nos.96 'Glenshane' 773 753, passing Castlerock Distant Signal with a Derry/Londonderry to Belfast Central Inter-City service, June 1990.
© Robert McConaghie
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
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.
3rd February 1984
Another to months, and Acton Yard would be closed as a sorting yard, with many of the tracks lifted.
Here the Great Western lower quadrants still control the entrance and exit, controllled by large wooden signal box.
66030 passes through Long Garden, near Dorrington with 6M60, Alexandra Dock Junction to Bescot china clay tanks.
Most shots at this location are taken from the other side of the line, where the sun can help and the front 3/4 shot is easier, so here's an alternative. Saturday 20.9.14
We turn the clock back to 1982 and were at Brighton Park ILL where many railroads cross each other .The whole plant is maned my a small tower and lots of semaphores.We have a new GP-15's waiting for Amtrak to cross
Illinois Railway Museum's Frisco 2-10-0 1630 backs between two semaphore signals as it switches tracks to gain access to the platform where it will couple to its train. The car behind the engine is a former milk car which now serves as an auxiliary water car. IRM operates trains over approximately four miles of track on a former interurban line. The line is signaled, electrified, and has a passing siding for multiple train operation. The 1630 was built in 1918 by Baldwin and was intended for use by the state railway of Russia, but it and about two hundred sister locomotives wound up stranded due to the Bolshevik Revolution taking place at the same time. The 'Russian Decapods,' as they came to be known, were subsequently distributed to American railroads. Union, IL - September 18, 2016.
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,
Dutton Locks comprises a pair of locks: dated 1874 built for the Weaver Navigation Co.
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Lock gates driven by Pelton turbines with cast-iron covers inscribed NORTHERN FOUNDRY CO. LTD: TURBINE MAKERS: OLDHAM.
Control handles on bollards with spherical tops standing on circular cast-iron covers inscribed HANNA DONALD & WILLS MAKERS, PAISLEY, 1874.
The locks, large enough to take sea going ships, have semaphore signals to control entry, though these no longer appear to be used.
J. Neils Lumber Co. 5 makes its debut public run past the Olson Road semaphores at the Illinois Railway Museum today.
58010 + 58014 await their departure time in Worksop Up side. Stood alongside the magnificent gantry that was removed a few weeks later, the sign of things to come is seen between the 2 locos. 23/04/98
Another semaphore only area in the colour light desert of the Southern route
A trio of 313's (313217, 313219 and 313203) await their next turns at Littlehampton on 31st March 2016.
Littlehampton, like its nearby seaside town cousin of Bognor, retains its semaphore signalling for the time being.
... with 66139 catching the ealy morning sun.
This year I am to capture more semaphores still in use before there are none left, its good to record them now....
C&NW steam extra with two covered wagons and some Frt cars and business cars on a system tour.This train is going under signal bridge thats full of semaphores on the Milwaukee /Havard sub division.I'm on the Roof of the Salvation Army that gives this beautfiful view of the train and semaphore signal bridge in the 1982
UP #5046 powers a southbound CORP train through the double semaphores at Creswell, OR in September 2003. Same location as the previous shot. Scan from 35mm slide
Semaphores abound at Dundee West signal box as 27050 shunts, having just arrived on the 1417 from Edinburgh on 1st October 1983.
All the semaphores in the Dundee area were replaced by colour light signals the following year and the boxes themselves were consigned to history in 1985 (I think) when the new panel box opened. Dundee Central can just be seen in the background on this photo.
The loco was slightly more fortunate and survives today. Following withdrawal in 1987 it was snapped up by the Strathspey Railway
Class 185 185125 departs Barnetby for Cleethorpes with a train from Manchester on 26th August 2015. Before you ask, yes, the arm on the signal in the foreground is drooping!
One of the few left and still technically active, this Fixed-Approach Semaphore on the Aberdeen and Rockfish guards the approach to the CSXT A-Line in Fayetteville, NC.
A scene soon to be consigned to history, as one of the last bastions of semaphore signalling, Blackpool North, is due to be re-modelled, re-signalled and electrified in the near future. After the Illuminations have been switched off in the second week of November the Fylde Line from Preston to Blackpool North and South will close in order for the necessary work to take place. The semaphores at Blackpool North are already showing their age, with the sea air taking its toll on the metalwork, resulting in one temporary replacement semaphore being installed as a stop gap. On 27th September 2017 Northern Class 156s Nos. 156487 & 156443 form service 1U65, 1240 Blackpool North - Manchester Airport, as they weave their way from the station. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
You could not even begin to count how many Union Jack flags were on display last weekend, but the message was loud and clear - a national outpouring of love and respect for our marvellous Diamond Jubilee Queen.
Mechanical interlocking machines were used to control the signals and switches at certain junctions where control was best handled by an operator on the ground. The machine was house in a building called a tower. Each lever controlled a switch, signal blade or lock. The levers were locked together so that a certain order must be followed (i.e. switches must be thrown before the signal can be set to clear). The are also locked to prevent conflicting routes from being set up. For example, if the signal facing eastbound traffic shows "clear", the signal in the opposing direction is physically locked so that it can't display clear until the opposing signal is returned to "stop" . This type of machine was connected to the signals and switches by a mess of cables and linking rods run next to the track. The last installation of this type in the United States was at Brighton Park in Chicago, it closed in 2007. The link has good photos of the signals and linking rods. This video show the same sort of machine in operation in the UK, where this technology originates.
My machine does not use the same methods to lock the levers as the actual machines. However, I was able to mimic the same functions using sliding bars and thread. This machine is my prototype and will have ten levers when I have the parts. All levers are interlocked to each other completely, making it is impossible to give conflicting routes.
Ultimately I'm not building one machine but rather, I'm building principles I can use to make mechanical interlockings for any track diagram. Once I have the prototype machine connected to the appliances and debugged I'll be ready to start a more complicated installation.
Modern appendiges in deference to the H&S police of the modern day railway really do nothing for those trying to photograph the up to date scene.
Caught in the framework of the "semaphore safety barrier" is 56105 with 6M51 Baglan Bay to Chirk logs looped at Sutton Bridge Junction, Shrewsbury, Thursday 3.7.14