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During March and April 2023, a major remodelling of Carstairs Junction took place with some trains diverted over the G&SW. Here on 25 March, 70812 powers under the minor road bridge east of Kirkconnel station with 6S36, Colas Rail Freight’s 0832 Dalston – Grangemouth tanks.
The G&SW was due to have its mechanical signal boxes swept away in 2023 but there were no signs of any replacement signalling work.
Kirkconnel's up starter has not only survived replacement but survived dwarfing (yes that is a word!) which is a surprise because a sign below the 4 car stop indicator, warns drivers of a remote signal! A discussion about this on Marra man's flicker site has probably got it about right, dwarfing it would make sighting difficult due to the footbridge, but a driver of a 4 car 156 probably couldn't see the arm placed so close, so high. Solution: an additional co-acting arm lower down. (well I'd like it!)
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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
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
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.
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.
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.
Elderly lower quadrant semaphore signals are still in use at Aberystwyth at the time of this shot (8th JUne 1977) of a Metro Cammell Class 101 DMU arriving
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,
Low Row on a frosty 8 December 2008.
Viewing the points of interest from left to right; first and foremost the tall and handsome up home semaphore signal protecting Low Row Level Crossing. The post for this signal is not a common type, a tubular upper section which in turn is mounted on a welded steel box frame stem.
Next, the “Bobby” watches over the scene from his fine NER signalbox. Then there’s 156484, the 1134 Carlisle – Newcastle which is about to rattle over the level crossing - above which - a parliament of rooks provide a sense of impending doom. Beyond the crossing, the up starter is off and over on the right hand side of the tracks - on its right hand bracket – is the down home.
Immediately below that down signal can be seen its replacement colour light signal and below that the disc ground signal, for wrong direction working over the crossing and crossover. Surrounded by scaffolding on the right of the picture the new Low Row signalling centre is nearing completion.
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.
On the Mid Hants Railway, former Southern railway 4-4-0 'Schools' class locomotive no.925 'Cheltenham' approaches Ropley with an 'Introductory Driving & Firing Experience' light engine trip on Thursday 3 September 2015.
... 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....
Arriva Trains Wales Coradia Class 175103 passes Frodsham signal box with the 1H83 (07:45) Llandudno – Manchester airport service on the last day of operation of the Victorian levers and semaphores. Not all is lost though. The re-signalling is a result of re-opening the 1.5-mile Halton Curve branch to regular passengers since 1975. The line connects the Chester to Warrington line at Frodsham Junction at the southern end and the Liverpool branch at the West Coast line at its northern end. The re-opening of the line to regular services is considered to be a substantial economic boost to the local economy with new commuter flows and leisure activities. As a result, bi-directional signalling to restore the curve has necessitated replacement of the semaphores with colour lights together with a new control panel in the signal box - www.pressreader.com/uk/rail-uk/20170802/281608125515018
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!
50036 Victorious bursts into life before departing a rather dull Penzance for London Paddington on 13th September 1978.
Semaphores still control the various exits and entrances, the parcels depot continues to receive and despatch Royal Mail items and the station still has the luxury of two shunters in the form of 08695 and 08941.
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