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A view of some of the three semaphore signals located on the westbound approach towards Abergele and Pensarn station on the North Wales Coast
Semaphores, Signal Box and a clay train, will they all still be here in five years time?? The driver of 66176 collects the single line staff for the Fowey Branch off the Lostwithiel Signaller in some lovely afternoon sunshine.
6G08 16:29 Goonbarrow Jn to Fowey Dock Carne Point.
Not as many of these around as there used to be - a traditional semaphore signal - here a home at danger. The Promenade at Grange-Over-Sands.
43188 'Newport Castle' is seen approaching Lostwithiel now with no semaphores left, working the 2C29 1547 Plymouth - Penzance 10/7/24.
Adelaida, AUSTRÀLIA 2023
Semaphore is a picturesque coastal suburb located northwest of Adelaide's city center, South Australia, known for its relaxed atmosphere and rich history. It's famous for its long sandy beach, a popular destination for swimming and relaxation. The iconic Semaphore Jetty, one of the longest in the state, stretches into the Gulf St Vincent and is ideal for strolls. The suburb's main thoroughfare, Semaphore Road, retains a charming seaside village feel with a mix of retro shops, cozy cafes, restaurants, and historic pubs. The area is also known for its family-friendly attractions, including a beachside playground, a miniature train, and a Ferris wheel in warmer months. Semaphore is home to several heritage buildings and offers a glimpse into Adelaide's maritime history. Its ambiance is a unique blend of nostalgia, leisure, and local community.
Back at Staythorpe again this afternoon and plenty of freight knocking about.
From the box there's not a lot you can do in way of variety with the shot.
Because of the low sun the long lens is required to shoot beyond the shadows.
Seen passing Staythorpe's SX 23 home signal in lovely early evening sunlight is DBS's 60020.
The train is 6M24 the 17.31 Lindsey O.R. to Kingsbury seen running just 2 late at 19.21 on Monday 24th June 2013.
A private collector has some fascinating pieces in Woodville including a pair of Chicago and Northwestern semaphore signals. This assortment of interesting things is easily visible from Oak Street.
*Railroad equipment on private property in private collection. Photo taken from city street.*
Class 50 50019 Ramiles is resting at Exeter St David's in the shadow of Exeter East Box. The lights of the semaphores stretch out into the darkness.
The car was again updated in 1956 when the engine was increased in capacity to 948 cc (57.9 cu in). The two-piece split windscreen was replaced with a curved one-piece one and the rear window was enlarged. In 1961 the semaphore-style trafficators were replaced by the flashing direction indicators, these were US-style red at the rear (using the same bulb filament as the brake lamp) and white at the front (using a second brighter filament in the parking lamp bulb) which was legal in the UK and many export markets at the time (such as New Zealand). An upmarket car based on the Minor floorpan using the larger BMC B-Series engine was sold as the Riley One-Point-Five/Wolseley 1500 beginning in 1957: versions of this Wolseley/Riley variant were also produced by BMC Australia as the Morris Major and the Austin Lancer.
10/2020 - Springer, NM
I decided to set up at the 706 automatic a little west of Springer. Soon I'll finally shoot Amtrak passing the semaphores.
washington, dc
hand coated platinum print diptych from 8x0 negs taken with a most honorable 12" red dot artar lens
St Margaret’s Convalescent Hospital was the brainchild of the Hart family of Glanville Hall.
Captain John Hart’s daughter Margaret realised the plight of the poor who came out of hospital to go into homes where worry waited for them. She bought and furnished a three-roomed cottage near the sea, providing a place for people to rest and recover.
Most of the provisions came from Glanville Hall, and the home was the hobby of the women of the household.
Shortly before his death in January 1873 Captain John Hart made a donation of £100 towards establishing the cause that became St Margaret’s Convalescent Hospital: his family later raised the fund to £800 and private subscriptions increased the amount to £1,000.
Plans for the structure were gratuitously prepared by Thomas English, architect, and a contract for erection of a portion of the proposed pile was let to Charles L Gardiner, whose tender amounted to £800.
On 14 September 1874 Mrs Musgrave, wife of the Governor, laid the foundation stone of the new hospital on land given by Thomas Elder. It was a four-roomed building with kitchen and laundry, built as a memorial to Captain Hart. That section is the centre of the present hospital.
A scroll placed beneath the stone read in part – This institution has been founded by public subscriptions to afford the benefit of sea air to convalescent patients of the Adelaide Hospital, and others who have not the means to obtain relief without assistance.
From its inception Margaret Hart (Mrs John Hart) was the Secretary and Mrs Musgrave the Patroness of the hospital.
The first annual report showed eighty-four patients had been admitted in twelve months. In 1877 the building was incorporated. Committee Management determined in purchasing several allotments of land from Captain Tapley at a cost of £313.
In June 1878, the size of the hospital was doubled by the erection of a wing costing about £368, built by Mrs E W Andrews in memory of her late husband, Edward William Andrews: the wing was opened 9 December by Lady Jervois, without any public ceremony. Space was then available for twenty patients.
A harmonium was presented to the hospital by Mrs and Miss M Hart.
In 1889 it was suggested that the convalescent hospital provide for children suffering from bone and joint diseases. Consequently, John Howard Angas, politician and philanthropist, contributed £1,889 10s towards a new wing: subsequently named the J H Angas Wing.
Plans were drawn by Messrs Garlick & Sons, architects, and the contract went to Messrs Ashwood and Powell. The wing had a frontage of 74 ft and depth of 53 ft. Included were two dormitories, playroom, nurses’ and servants’ rooms.
A tower 52 ft high occupied the central part of the building, with a lift to convey patients to the top of the building where a lookout was to be erected. The wing was to be built of Dry Creek stone.
On Saturday 7 June 1890 the foundation stone of the J H Angas Wing was laid by Mrs Kennion, wife of Bishop Kennion, Anglican Bishop of Adelaide.
This wing gave the hospital a total capacity of fifty-seven beds.
The Hart family’s connection to the convalescent hospital has been unique. By the 1930s the secretary was Miss M Hart, niece of the founder Margaret Hart. Mrs John Hart held the secretaryship until she was over the age of eighty.
Ref: Register 12-7-1875, 29-7-1879, 19-8-1881, 15-8-1899, 9-6-1890. Advertiser 13-9-1932.
Pacer class 143 no. 143621 passes the impressive gantry of semaphores at Radyr with the 10.44 Barry Island to Treherbert service on 28th June 1993. Photo: Richard Braybrook
RX 224 hauls last steamtrainservice Semaphore Road Railway Centenary
7 January 1978
Engine owned and operated by the Australian Railway Historical Society
© Henk Graalman 12961
West Midlands Railway Class 172 Turbostars 172217 and 172213 are seen departing Worcester Shrub Hill station, and past the semaphores, with the 13.17 to Dorridge
Brush Class 47 D1705 "Sparrowhawk" is seen approaching Rothley station with a service from Loughborough Central.
A detour Z-train cuts through the semaphores at Slinger N.M on the former ATSF Raton pass line .today there are no longer anymore Frt's on this division only Amtrak
Wednesday 24th, and Valley flasks booked to run, but with Grandchildren to deliver to Llanberis for a water sports day , I knew there was no chance of the 6D43.But, on return home I found they had left late (NR Trust later said problem with train preparation) So with all my foreground Buddleia reduced to ground level at Belmont Road Bridge it had to be plan 'B'. Now there is a certain photographer in S.Wales who likes semaphore signals ! The 1D34 Chester -Holyhead in TFW livery 175003 approaches Gaerwen crossing.
Possibly the only signal box on the network that has a post box built in !
Could easily confuse this shot as being 6am on a sunny summer morning, but the trees give the game up. It's actually approaching 10am, early December, and the sun is still very low in the sky. 66598 approaches Barnetby past the elegant trio of bracket semaphores, with Wraby Junction behind, Tuesday, 4.12.12
Hadlow Road is a presereved station on the Wirrall way . It has a piece of track but is not connected in any way. A real gem of a discovery that not a lot of people seem to know about
10/2020 - Bernal, NM
The 791 automatic semaphore at Bernal. I shot this later in the trip with Train No. 3. Photo to come later.
We turn the clock back to 1981 with semaphores everywhere and were just east of Noble st tower and trains are backing into CNW station for the rush hour with the famous Dear Path Club run to Lake Forest & Kenosha
37412 ‘Driver John Elliott’ leaves Shrewsbury at Sutton Bridge Junction with 2V42 1028 Crewe-Cardiff rugby special on Saturday 11-11-2000.
Scan of a Photograph.
Built c1861 for Richard Jagoe, shipping reporter for Adelaide newspapers and assistant health officer. After his death 1899 used as boarding house named Trejagoe House. In 1932 Rev A E Francis transferred his Rhaiadore Grammar School from Mount Lofty, at first for boys, later allowing girls as day pupils. For sale 1938, now private, restored 2020.
“Yesterday morning the shipping reporters' boat was manned on the beach, at the Semaphore, and having launched, they proceeded off in the Gulf for the purpose of boarding a schooner running up. The schooner, however, not heaving to, the boat was tacked for the shore. . . a heavy sea broke close to the boat, which, notwithstanding the exertions of the person steering, caused the boat to broach to, and she instantly capsized, immersing all the party in the water, with every sea breaking completely over them. Our shipping reporter, Mr Jagoe, was washed off two or three times.” [Adelaide Times 21 Apr 1856]
“captain of the steamer Rangatira, was summoned by Handasyde Duncan, M.D., Health Officer of Port Adelaide, for allowing persons to land front his vessel, on the 24th ultimo, without having obtained the permission of the Health Officer or his assistant. . . arrived from Melbourne . . . and on her way to the Lightship passed without noticing the Assistant Health Officer, Mr. R. Jagoe, who had been waiting for her afloat all day, with a pilot, off the Grange, distant three miles from the Semaphore.” [Adelaide Observer 12 Sep 1863]
“Mr. R. Jagoe, calling attention to the necessity of a crane at the end of the Semaphore Jetty.” [Register 24 Sep 1864]
“report of the last meeting of the Marine Board that the request of Mr. Jagoe, reporter for the morning papers, to be allowed to affix davits to the Semaphore Jetty for the purpose of suspending his boat, was refused. Since that we have received a letter from the Treasurer, informing us that he has requested the Marine Board to permit the affixing of davits under the condition that, if found inconvenient, they shall be removed upon due notice.” [Adelaide Observer 3 Jun 1865]
“The Semaphore. . . Here are quarters for boat's crews, pilot, customs and health officers; and the telegraph and railway stations are contiguous. Water and gas are laid on in the town, and the necessaries and luxuries of life are abundant and cheap. Some of the residences are pleasing specimens of marine architecture, and form conspicuous objects from the sea. . . Mr. R. Jago, the efficient sanitary officer, has quarters here.” [Frearson’s Monthly 16 Oct 1880]
“JAGOE.—On the 11th March, at his residence, the Semaphore, Richard Jagoe, aged 66 years.” [Evening Journal 16 Mar 1899]
“Mr. Richard Jagoe. . . was undoubtedly the best known of the residents of the seaside town and district. . . For close on half a century he acted as Shipping Reporter to the metropolitan dailies. . . also Assistant Health Officer. . . Mr. Jagoe provided the first regular boat service from the Semaphore, and inaugurated the service of steam-launches in the Gulf, which were his own property and were afterwards transferred to the Adelaide Steamlaunch Company, of which he became a Director. That Company was later on amalgamated with the Adelaide Steamship Company.” [Register 11 Mar 1899]
“Mr. Richard Jagoe, the well-known shipping reporter. . . was born at Truro, Cornwall, on March 15, 1833. He subsequently went with his parents to Penrhyn in the same county. . . His first occupation was that of boy on a schooner trading on the English and Welsh coasts, and later he made a voyage from London to Lisbon and back on a small fruit-carrying vessel. In 1849 he rejoined his parents end emigrated with them to South Australia. . . his first occupation in Adelaide was sawing a load of wood. After a period spent as a farm hand he went to sea again and served as seaman on vessels trading between Adelaide, Melbourne, and Tasmania. His next occupation was that of auctioneer's clerk to Mr. W. G. Lambert, who had a mart in Hindley-street. . . Then he joined the Adelaide ‘Times’ as Port reporter, and later on was appointed shipping reporter at the Semaphore, a position he held to the day of his death. . . He has only one daughter who is married and living in Melbourne.” [Advertiser 13 Mar 1899]
Äccommodation . — Married, Single, permanent, or Visitors; minute train, beach; spacious rooms, balcony.—Trejagoe, Semaphore.” [Express & Telegraph 8 Sep 1899 advert]
“A Useful Houseboy wanted; one able to milk, —Trejagoe House, South Esplanade, Semaphore.” [Express & Telegraph 19 Dec 1899 advert]
“At Trejagoe House, South Esplanade, Semaphore.— Vacancies for Single or Double Rooms; gentlemen preferred” [Advertiser 8 Jun 1901 advert]
“Semaphore. — Miss White has Vacancies for Visitors and permanent .Boarders.— Trejagoe House, Esplanade south.” [Advertiser 10 Mar 1904 advert]
“’Trejagoe House’, Semaphore, was the scene of a gay party on Friday evening, when Mrs. A. Wilkey entertained a number of friends. The dining room and halls were nicely decorated with Oriental colours. A home-made supper was served, under the supervision of Miss Pearl Wilkey. The tables were decorated with sweet peas and carnations. The Broadway Parisienne Orchesta supplied music.” [Advertiser 8 Sep 1926]
“To Let. . . ‘Trejagoe’ House, Esplanade, 2 storeyed property of 10 rooms and all conveniences.” [Advertiser 27 Aug 1930 advert]
“Rhaiadore Grammar School (Late Mount Lofty) will re-open at Semaphore, Tuesday, February 9th. Full curriculum. Collegiate and Primary, including Physical Culture under supervision of special instructor. Delightful seaside position, and excellent accommodation tor Boarders and Day Boys.” [Advertiser 16 Jan 1932 advert]
“Situated on South Esplanade, Semaphore, stands Rhaiadore Grammar School, the ideal Primary and Collegiate School for Boys. Equally important with success in examination honors is the training of the pupils in gentlemanly conduct and in the participation of healthy athletics. . . The accommodation for boarders is all that is desirable, and they enjoy that family atmosphere in our home life. . . The school is strictly non-sectarian, and, considering its high standing, the fees are moderate. . . The Principal, Rev. A. E. Francis, Rhaiadore Grammar School, 68 South Esplanade, Semaphore.” [The Mail 26 Jan 1935]
“Trejagoe House, the historic Semaphore home erected by Captain Trejagoe [sic] in the earliest days of the district, is the holiday residence of twenty-eight happy children, who, under the care of their matron. Mrs. MacGillycuddy, have gone down from the Walkerville Boys' Home to spend three weeks at the seaside.” [Advertiser 14 Jan 1936]
“Semaphore, Esplanade. We shall be prepared to take charge of children from 7 to 13 years of age during Christmas vacation December 11th -Feb. 10th. Happy safe holiday. Full particulars. Rev. A. E. Francis. Rhaiadore Grammar School.” [Advertiser 28 Nov 1936 advert]
“Rhaiadore Grammar School. First Class Private Residential and Day School for Boys and Girls under 14 years of age. The boys and girls' divisions are entirely separate. Our pupils receive every care and devotion. The premises are commodious, yet home like and are set on the Esplanade close to train and bus.” [Advertiser 2 Jan 1937 advert]
“Rhaiadore Grammar School. . . A Primary and Collegiate School. . . Boarding and Day for Boys. A Separate Day School Division for Girls. Pupils from refined homes only are taken. Where necessary special terms, including board at Evancourt Coffee Palace, are made to meet parents or guardians of desirable resident boys.” [Advertiser 4 Sep 1937]
“Auction. . . Trejagoe House, 68 Esplanade, Semaphore, corner Newman street. A two-storey stone dwelling of 8 rooms and 2 detached rooms at rear. Conveniently situated within 100 yards of railway station and jetty. This property may be at a very small cost be converted into 3 self-contained flats.” [Advertiser 1 Oct 1938 advert]