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68018 & 68009 roll into Barrow-in-Furness with 6K73, the 08.30 (SO) Sellafield - Crewe flask train on Sat 20th May 2023.
With the palm trees and semaphore signals, it was a scene that reminded me very much of Cornwall.
First of many 313 pics taken in August. 313214 is seen passing the semaphore signalling at Littlehampton working the 2P25 1305 from Bognor Regis 6/8/22.
Ex GWR 2-8-0T, No. 4247, passes the old distant semaphore as it makes its way up the grade along the East Somerset Railway towards Cranmore in charge a mixed freight train.
A day in the Iroise Sea (Bretagne) and in 4 shots (1 of 4)
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Vieux sémaphore de Kerhoazoc.
Une journée en Mer d'Iroise et en 4 photos (n°1).
Commune de Landunvez proche d'Argenton.
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Kerhoazoc, Landunvez, Finistère, Bretagne, BZH, France.
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47631 roars through St.Erth with an up parcels from Penzance on 22nd May 1991.
The locomotive survives in preservation as 47765.
Kodachrome 100ASA slide scan.
Around the back of King’s Cross Station I spotted this arrangement in the distance. I didn’t have the time to get closer and explore so took this
shot on full zoom. The kinetic sculptures were constantly moving but I found this arrangement the most pleasing linking the distant device on top of the red building with the one in the foreground. I later discovered that these installations were by an Argentinian born artist called Amalia Pica and that these installations were programmed to communicate with a third using semaphore. I really liked the sense of fun and nostalgia that they conveyed and I was pleased that the clear blue sky fitted in with the flat colour graphics of the signalling devices.
Nestled on the south coast in West Sussex is the seaside town of Littlehampton. Here you can find a cluster of semaphores to envy the finest displays remaining in the UK. The small terminus is also frequented by the ageing 313 units dating back to 1976. Both the semaphores and units days are numbered. 313206 is seen leaving Littlehampton passing the signal box with the 1816 to Bognor Regis.
BN 7136-6714-8053-2236 west smoke it up as they cross Cut Bank Creek and get set for the climb out of the valley. At this time, semaphores guarded both sides of the single track bridge and an operator in the depot controlled the signals for the bridge crossing. He had quite the interesting board visible to all. One thing about semaphores, you had to really work at not knowing if there was a train and its direction of travel.
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The name Iris is Greek and it means rainbow for its many colours. However, most irises are shades of blue or purple.
Lately I have seen them white, yellow and mix of yellow and white.
The majority of irises that we see today are hybrids of the originals.
The iris has been around for many centuries, and many artists have chosen to paint them.
There are several famous paintings of the flowers. From 1888 to 1890, Van Gogh painted at least four paintings of irises.
Monet painted "Iris" sometime between 1914 and 1917.
Not only is the iris a beautiful flower, but also they have several uses.
As a live plant they are used as a water purifier.
They are ingredients in some perfumes, homemade toothpaste, pottery and herbal medicines.
The stylised iris, fleur-de-lis, descends from the white iris which is native to Florence, Italy and which grew even in its city walls.
This white iris, displayed against a red background, became the symbol of Florence until the Medici family, to signal a change in political power, reversed the colours making the white one red and setting in motion a centuries-long breeding program to hybridise a red iris.
Catherine de Medici carried this symbol of Florence to Paris when she married the king of France where this most famous of irises acquired its nickname, fleur-de-lis.
The iris has been associated with France as Louis VII adopted it as a symbol in the 12th Century.
In Flowers'-language: Iris means faith; hope; wisdom and valour
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Poecilobothrus nobilitatus
"Description. This is an attractive fly with a lime green thorax. The male has conspicuous white wing tips and is easy to identify, the female lacks these white wing tips. The acrostichal bristles on the thorax are short and in two rows. The first antennal segment has hairs on the dorsal surface.
"Identification difficulty. Common and easily identified.
"Habitat. It lives in damp places with lush vegetation and is often seen resting on mud or on the water surface.
"When to see it. May to August.
"Life History. A mating dance precedes copulation.
"UK Status. Quite common and widespread in England and Wales, fewer records from Scotland."
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Taken a while back at Semaphore beach at sunset, on a very eerie day where we had fog lasting all day long and not even the tiniest breeze.
66603 approaches Edale framed by a pair of semaphores, with what I think is the 6M55 Peterborough West Yard - Tunstead Sidings (I should really write this sort of thing down).
As with much of June the weather was hardly on 'summer' form with low cloud and rain much in evidence.
June 12th 2019.
One of the semaphores protecting the siding at ESS Chapelle is silhouetted against the desert sun. These semaphores on the Glorieta Sub along with those on the Raton Sub are some of the last such signals in service.
This Iris bud was the first to timidly unfurl a petal. like a flag, sign langauage!
Iris are often called Flags in North-America.
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On June 27, 1979, BN Train 23 is cutting through Glacier National Park behind two units including SD(P)45 6593 at Paola. At the time I thought nothing of the semaphores because they were all over the placeI
This was a great trip where I got to chase the Milwaukee Pacific Extension, BN F units and Alcos, and Amtrak's North Coast Hi, all long gone. This shot was just a grab of another boring BN train!
DB class 67 no. 67013 approaches Hammerton, west of York, on 20th November 2021, heading a Pathfinder Tours charter, 'The Northern Star' from Eastleigh to York, Harrogate and Leeds.
The Man Who Sold The World - David Bowie. Perhaps my most favourite song of all time. RIP David Bowie, you will live on forever.
Truro signal box is supposed to be closing before the end of the year. So here is a record shot of box, the semaphore signalling before 57602 leaves Truro with the 1A50 2145 Penzance - London Paddington 'Night Riviera sleeper train' 19/4/23.
A westbound Baltimore & Ohio freight led by 2-8-2 4428 knocks down the Clear signal at Halethorpe MD as it heads towards the Old Main Line sometime in the 1930s. This is a rather large 122 sized negative which is what Kodak referred to as "postcard size" roll film.
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Sunlight peeks through one of the few semaphore signals protecting the siding at Chapelle, New Mexico along BNSF's Glorieta Subdivision on May 21, 2016.
The fine bracket semaphore signals for Castleford West Junction on the Normanton line, pictured in October 1994 two years before they were replaced by colour lights. Situated at the western end of Castleford station platforms, they both indicated the same routes, the one on the left, from the normal up direction and, the one on the right from the down platform used mainly to turn back terminating multiple units.
The Signal arms on each of the left-hand dolls were for the Cutsyke branch to Pontefract, whilst the arms on the right-hand dolls were for the main line to Wakefield or Leeds, each with the distant arms for Castleford Gates signalbox below them. The route behind me was a freight only line to Milford Sidings.