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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!
Azuma set 800207 departs the Down Sidings at Harrogate and passes the tall no.44 signal on its way into the station with ECS to form 1A40 1536 to London Kings Cross on 8th November 2023. The unusual yellow disc shunting signal can be seen further ahead in the sidings.
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.
These trains may travel at 140 MPH on HS1 up to London, but at Deal the home signal on both platforms is a semaphore. 1828 train to London, St Pancras International.
Passing the "Distant" Semaphore signal at Foley Park, 66771 leads the 16:37 Kidderminster SVR - Bewdley Shuttle on 20/5/2017 with 47828 DOR.
156451 passes the 1897 built signal box at Norton on Tees with 2N20 1056 Hexham to Battersby on 21st September 2020.
Not many locations on the UK rail network that have two consecutive signal posts with distant signals co-located - if any at all. The unsightly new bridge links to a sports complex - but is actually a good vantage point for photographs!
Indicating how close the boxes all are to each other, the first distant is that of the seldom switched in circuit, Norton East box and the second one is for Norton South.
These will all vanish early in 2021 when the area is resignalled and Project engineers can just be seen on the right working on alterations to the level crossing equipment.
Think of a train running between two random locations and you'd be hard pressed to come up with Hexham & Battersby!
Tuesday 21 November 2023
AMTK 187 + 44 power through the Santa Fe semaphore signals at Wagon Mound working the 5:55PM Amtrak “Southwest Chief” from Los Angeles to Chicago about 55 minutes late.
The Wagon Mound butte is in the background on the right.
Semaphore signals have almost totally disappeared on main line railways in North America. The only location on the national network also used by Amtrak is between Colmor and Wagon Mound, New Mexico where less than 11 electrically powered semaphore signals originally installed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1920s remain in use on the Las Vegas (New Mexico) - La Junta Colorado ‘Raton Sub’ line. This is owned by freight BNSF but for many years has only used by Amtrak’s Southwest Chief Chicago – Los Angeles service.
© Finbarr O'Neill
The CP/INRD powered train rolls past the semaphoe signals at Orleans Indiana on a late June 14, 2009 afternoon.
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.
At the old IC Railroad Depot in Fayette, Mississippi. Notice the Ladder that was used for access to the Kerosene Lantern.
Near Rice Hiil Oregon, a couple of 1920 era semaphores stand guard over the tracks of the Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad.
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
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
This was the view westwards from Tay Bridge station in the diminishing afternoon light of 3 December 1983.
In the middle distance is the West signal box with, further away, the Central box.
not only does the cheshire town of helsby have an almost unspoiled traditional red sandstone station it also has a signalbox and semaphore signalling----a rareity these days
here gresley k4 2-6-0 61994 the great marquess drifts down the bank from chester returning from blaenau ffestiniog to preston with the welsh mountaineer excursion
Class 143 Pacer DMU 143602 arrives at Tondu on 25th May 2016 with the late-running 2G58 1115 Maesteg to Cheltenham Spa service. The train had been delayed due to disruptive passengers and was terminated at Cardiff Central due to the later running.
Tondu signal box - which can be seen in the background controls the four way junction here, and operates a fine selection of lower quadrant semaphore signals.
En route to Goodison I made a day of it taking in (in reverse order) Huyton, Kirkham North Junction and Blackpool North No. 2.
This is the latter location. Blackpool North.
I took literally hundreds of shots on the day.
A lovely box with a real L & Y feel, predominantly mechanical points and semaphores, a busy timetable, it was a joy to just watch the signaller throwing the levers about.
A wander onto the platform during a patch of sunshine saw 150426 arriving at Platform 3 with a service from Liverpool.
I'm not planning to edit and sort through all the shots just yet but couldn't resist putting up a couple of shots with trains in.
Blackpool North, Wednesday 28th August 2013.
Amtrak Train Number 4 - Levy, NM - Wagon Mound in the background September 21, 2020. Hazy from California fire smoke.
Sur cette photo, montrant le B 85053 à l'approche de St-Savinien, assurant un Bordeaux-Nantes, se cache un sémaphore mécanique. Saurez vous le retrouver ?
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
Here is a little Semaphore Fly on a lily pad, doing what they seem to do best. They have white wing tips and they move their wings sometimes slowly sometimes quite fast in signalling act. Fascinating to watch.
Blimey theres not much at Lowestoft other than some cracking semaphores and a great looking signal box.
Awful light hence the high iso and pants image.
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.