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153 322 leaves Reedham Station for Lowestoft by the looks of the signal. Reedham is one of the loveliest villages on the Norfolk Broads. For the Railway enthusiast and photographer it's also an amazing place for it's still surviving semaphore signals, signalbox, interesting track layout and the fantastic swing bridge. It's like stepping back in time.
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, 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.
Less than 5 minutes after 56303 passed heading north, 60001 broke the peace of a very quaint looking part of Teesside. Passing Billingham SB and the footbridge, the tug leads 6n27 Hartlepool - Tees Yard empty BDA wagons. If it had been in a more original livery this would be a timeless shot. 21/02/14
Admittadely not the greatest photo, but purely just a record of the one time semaphore signals (long since gone)....plus the old track layout and signalbox at South Ruislip.
Track has since been remodelled here so that the non-stopping Thames Turbos and Marylebone to Birmingham Express services can speed through at a considerable rate of knots.
I'm sure I heard rumours at one time, that there was talk of this line being converted into a coach only expressway, directly into Marylebone !
Date photo taken, for the record is February, 1980.
Northern Ireland Railways Metropolitan Vickers (Metrovick) 104 Class Locomotive No.108, at Portrush Railway Station with the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) Annual 3-day Railtour, May 1990.
© Robert McConaghie
Old-fashioned train signal, or "semaphore," which uses lights for nighttime use and an arm at various angles for daytime use. See the Train Semaphore Signal blog entry for more.
On a rather gloomy 21st January 2015, Arriva Trains Wales class 175 no. 175111 working 2D69 14.08 to Llandudno Junction departs past the array of semaphore signals at Llandudno.
There are going to be a couple of semaphore signals on my train layout, I'd like to have then working, so here is my first attempt at controlling them with an RCX brick.
GWR 2M97 08;27 Southampton Central - Worcester Foregate Street
Worcester Shrub Hill
23rd September 2017
Semaphores abound as 150219 approaches its penultimate stop. The signal with the spectacle plate covered is to replace the semaphore at the end of Platform 1 to enable 10 car Class 180s to use the platform. The signal in the down direction has yet to return to danger following the passing of 1P47.
DRS Class 37s nos: 37419 and 37407 make a fine sight (and sound) as they power away from Lowestoft station with 2J67 07:47 service to Norwich on Wednesday 15th August 2018.
The resignalling of the Wherry Lines will see the removal of the semaphore signals and signal box at Lowestoft. These fine balanced bracket signals are scheduled to be removed during the autumn of 2018.
Lowestoft boasts one of the largest numbers of semaphore signals on the Wherry lines and this scene will look very different once the area has been resignalled. As well as the resignalling of the area, there are also plans to rationalise much of the trackwork at Lowestoft.
These semaphore signals at Bargoed in the Rhymney Valley, South Wales, are due to be dismantled by the end of summer 2013. The replacement equipment is already in situ, covered by sinister looking shrouds. As well as the signal box seen here, two others on this line at Ystrad Mynach and Heath Junction are being closed too. Class 150 No. 150259 heads off in the direction of Rhymney with the 14:02 Penarth - Rhymney service; a few moments earlier the man in the high-visibility jacket had handed the single line token to the driver. On the right, Class 143 No. 143602 is about to leave with the 15:02 departure for Penarth.
Well its upon us and in a couple of weeks the semaphore signals at Barnetby will be no more. A man with paperwork looks on (no doubt to do with the resignalling ) as 66 164 heads through with 6H60 1045 Humber International Term to Drax Power Station loaded coal train. The classic view looking towards Barnetby East box which most of us have seen many times before but thought I would post one last view with semaphore signals.
10 years after the Skyliner shots in Turkey, I was domiciled in Australia and chasing ALCos for sport.
On 24 March 1994, ALCo DL531 branchliners 48149/4889 split the wooden-posted semaphores at Cootamundra West in New South Wales, with no.8446 loaded cotton containers bound for export through Port Botany, Sydney.
Agonised over whether to post the colour shot or monochrome - it was a close run thing in the end.
Day 4 of my Pemberton backroads adventure took Frank and I past Semaphore Lake and up Locomotive Mountain.
Write up and many more photos to come.
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The somewhat unusual sight these days of a heritage diesel engine working a charter solo, as Locomotive Services Limited Class 47/4, 47805 / D1935 "Roger Hosking MA 1925-2013" leads the Statesman Rail "Settle & Carlisle Circular" through Helsby.
With all other LSL Class 47s unavailable for various reasons, the ever dependable 47805 (also previously numbered 47257 and 47650) took the tour solo without the usual 'rear gunner'.
The return leg was running as 1Z29 13:34 Appleby to Bangor (Gwynedd), with Roger the Reliable running round the stock at Bangor at both ends of the day.
At the very north end of Romney Ind Amtrak passes the classic semaphores of the former Monon .Its a good thing Amtrak was running hour & half late during the very early morning snow storm or it couldn't be possible to photograph this train
Photo coutesy of the State Library of South Australia.
This head and shoulders portrait shows a gentleman with thick grey hair, beard and moustache, wearing a double breasted jacket with a white shirtfront. The photograph is signed 'Yours truly, Richard Jagoe'. Nicknamed 'The Sandhill Savage' he was the shipping reporter at Semaphore for many years, living rough in the sandhills and rowing out to obtain news from visiting ships. He worked for the 'Register', the 'Observer' and later the 'Advertiser'. He later built a house named 'Rhiador' on the Esplanade. [On back of photograph] 'Richard Jagoe / To Hugh Kalypters (?) / with compliments / from R.J.'
Barrow-in-Furness Stabling Point is seen with just a solitary unidentified Class 156 on 18 May 2015.
Back row, left to right; F Smith, L McGregor, J Gillies, L.G. Stoneman, H. Phillips, E. Playfair, C. McColl, B. Gray: 2nd row, J.H. Kennare, W. Wilcox, R.H. Bray (sec.), L.H. Parker (Vice-president ), A.M. Inglis (Assistant sec.), G. Woodrow, S. Jenkins: sitting, W. Evans, H. Wilson (Vice-captain), J. McDonald (Captain), E.F. Gryst (President), A. Inglis (Captain), A.E. Gryst (Vice-captain), A. Robinson, H. Clarke: front, E.F. McNaughton, H. Inglis
Date of original: 1913
Article from The Mail, 26th July 1913 :
THE HOCKEY PREMIERSHIP. WON BY SEMAPHORE. After occupying the position of runners up for six years the Semaphore Hockey club reached the coveted position of premiers by their victory over the A.N.A. team this afternoon. There was a good crowd of spectators present at the match, which was played on the Parkside ground, and a splendid game was witnessed. The Natives were the first to score, Milne opening their account after some smart play, in which Herbert, Gus Siebert, and himself took part. The A.N.A. backs were defending well, and Monks (in goal) had saved a number of very hot shots before Robinson succeeded in beating him. At half-time the scores were 1 all, and the play had been very even. Soon after the interval Wilson scored the second and winning goal for the seasiders, and although the Natives tried hard to equalise Semaphore managed to keep their advantage. With the exception of a slight weakness on the right of the A.N.A. forward line both teams were of equal strength, and the winners se cured their position by a better system of play than their opponents. McDonald (captain), Wilson, McNaughton, Robinson, Woodrow, and Wilcox were all prominent for the winners, while the Natives' best were Gus Siebert (captain), W F. Greenham, R. Siebert, Joyner, and Monks (whose goalkeeping was one of the features of the match). Mr. Perrian gave every satisfaction as umpire. MEN'S ASSOCIATION PREMIERSHIP. Semaphore, 2 goals, beat A.N.A.
The We're Here! gang is communicating in code today.
This is the Eleventh edition (1964) of this handy reference book.
6.9.2014. Northern Rail's Manchester Piccadilly - Sheffield service pulls away from its scheduled stop at Grindleford. These 'Pacer' DMU's have done sterling work when you consider that they were all built between 1985-87. Unit No 142.094.
73156 passes thru Swithland sidings with a southbound goods on the Great Central Railway on 26 January 2024.
Dwarf shunting signals, aka "dollies" or "dolly signals". When more than one are mounted on the same post, the semaphores from top to bottom authorise movement via points to individual lines (routes) from left to right. Only one at a time can be cleared. Here the lower signal has been cleared to authorise movement via the right-hand route. The upper semaphore is a "bow-tie" style "wrong road" semaphore, meaning it authorises movement on a running line in the opposite direction to normal.
There are only a handful of mechanical dwarf shunting signals surviving on the NSW system, and all the ones I know of are in Lithgow (about three sets).