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2010/05/24.RD4793. One of the many semaphore signals still to be found at Nördlingen in Bavaria.
Monday, 24th May, 2010.
Copyright © Ron Fisher.
A fascinating array of boards protecting the crossing at Grosmont NYMR. Anyone know if they are original North Eastern Railway signals, or more modern replacements?
There's a famous visitor in shot too, in the shape of D1062 Western Courier, making a first visit to the Yorkshire Moors.
14 September 2013
Wrawby Junction is just a little to the West of Barnetby Station (from where I took this picture), opened by the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central) in 1848. Lines from Lincoln, Sheffield, Scunthorpe converge on their route towards Grimsby & Immingham. The area is known for it's huge arrays of semaphore signals, although nowadays there are only three such gantries surviving. The signal box can just be made out to the right of this shot. Built in 1916, this is a huge part brick, part timber affair, and when built had 137 levers, making it the largest manual signal lever frame designed to be operated by one man - a distinction it probably still holds.
Amid a forest of semaphore signals at Stirling a Class 101 DMU on 16th July 1986. Id of service unknown.
'The Sentinel of Semaphore’ – this solid stone structure was built in 1875. At 1pm daily, the black ball drops, signalling ships to rate their chronometers, vital navigation instruments.
This substantial house represents the growth of Semaphore in the 1870s and 1880s, due in part to the extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway line to Glanville and thence to the sea end of Semaphore Road in 1878. It was built for George and Rosa Foulis on land purchased from Uriah Marshall in 1869. Foulis was master of the schooner Hawthorn that engaged in trade with the regional ports of Port Pirie and Port Augusta, shipping goods such as wheat, wool and copper.
Detail of text on the semaphore alphabet panel "of ships sailing the seas, each with its special flag or ship-signal"
Walt Whitman - Text for "A Sea Symphony" by Ralph Vaughan-Williams
Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) 80 Class 3-car DEMU Nos.90 766 738 in suburban livery, passing Portrush Outer Distant Semaphore Signal, with a Portrush to Coleraine service, September 1989.
Photo taken with permission from Northern Ireland Railways.
© Robert McConaghie
Northern DMU 156440 approaches a cleared semaphore signal as it prepares to stop at Sellafield station. The line here curves round at the site of what was once the junction for the line to Egremont. The land here is mostly covered with grasses; beyond, a mixture of sand and shingle and the sea.
Semaphore, Adelaide, South Australia
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Here's another one for the trackside fun section: an old steam age rusting semaphore. If you know where to look, these can still be found in and around the rolling hills of northern Pennsylvania and southern New York, as well as other places. It works basically like a traffic light, with red, yellow, and green glass plates/lenses in front of a lamp giving off regular, known as white, light. I also have a Conrail era signal in the works.
Looking toward Wrawby Junction, December 2015. The end of the how we knew the railways in North Lincolnshire.
This wooden signal was located close to where the Telos artwork now stands. It was used to control access to the swing bridge just visible in the distance.
Aproximate location today:
The Main Sothern Line of NSW was equipped with automatic upper quadrant signals, but these have been replaced in recent years.
The train is rolling down a 1 in 134 grade and the line then rises at 1 in 79 followed by the 1010 m radius curve and then steepens to 1 in 60.
The locomotive is preserved Pacific 3801 ( built 1943) which was running in 2006 in its original wartime livery of battleship grey.
I made this photograph in mid-May of 2014. In September there was a report that seven semaphore signal blades had been stolen from near Orleans and Smedley. I don't know if this blade was among those taken but I'm glad that I photographed it when I did.
Four foundation stones laid 27 Apr 1924; by Mayor H Slade on behalf of the citizens, by Miss Edith A Sanders on behalf of widows & orphans, by Mrs Magnus Wald on behalf of the parents of those who fell, and by Colonel C P Butler on behalf of the Returned Sailors & Soldiers. Unveiled 24 May 1925, replacing earlier temporary Memorial Arch.
“A number of plans for the memorial had been examined. . . it was suggested that the shore end of the jetty be widened to a depth of 120 ft. and a monument in the shape of a pedestal surmounted by a clock be erected.” [Daily Herald 14 Mar 1922]
“Bearing no names, but just the simple inscription, ‘In Memory of All Who Fell in the Great War, 1914-1918’, the Semaphore Soldiers' Memorial will stand at the shore end of the jetty on the site lately ocupied [sic] by the temporary memorial arch. Selected from 25 designs, the chosen one is a massive granite clock tower, surmounted by a female figure representing Peace. This statue, carved from Italian marble, will stand life-size. The four-dialled clock, with faces 4 ft. in diameter, will be electrically driven, the current being supplied by a battery. . . The bottom step of the monument will be 16 ft. square, and the whole structure, with the exception of the statue, will be in grey granite from Harcourt, Victoria.” [News 14 Aug 1923]
“The corner stones are symbolical of the men who rallied from the four corners of the globe in answer to Britain's call.” [Register 28 Apr 1924]
“The Mayor was handed a souvenir trowel by Mr. Gower, and, on behalf of the citizens, declared the stone ‘well and truly laid’. . . On behalf of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers’ League, Col. C. P. Butler, D.S.O., laid the second corner stone. . . Another stone to commemorate the deeds of their sons was laid by Mrs. Magnus Wald, on behalf of the mothers. . . ‘Husbands and fathers had been left on the field of war’, said Miss E. A. Sanders, who, on behalf of the widows and orphans, laid the other stone.” [Port Adelaide News 2 May 1924]
“The impressive granite monument standing at the approach to the Semaphore Jetty, erected to the memory of sailors and soldiers who fell in the Great War, was unveiled by Lieut.Col. L.O. Betts, O.B.E., President of the Semaphore and Port Adelaide branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League. . . Col. Betts unveiled the statue of the Angel of Peace, with wings outspread, and with symbolical palm in hand, which surmounts the tower. He said that it was nearly 11 years since the peace of the world was upset by Germany. When Great Britain entered the fight, Australia's duty was plain. She answered the call by sending over 300,000 volunteers. Of that huge army, more than 60,000 failed to return.” [Register Advertiser 25 May]
“The Mayor announced that the Misses Badcock, who had conducted the Lothian House College at South terrace, Semaphore, had attended his office at the Town Hall on Saturday morning and handed him the sum of £104, to be placed to the credit of the memorial fund. Some time ago the ladies had conducted a most successful fair, the proceeds of which were to have been expended on gymnasium improvements. As the school was subsequently closed the problem arose what to do with the money. The Misses Badcock got in touch with the parents, who were unanimously of the opinion that the money should be kept in the district, and it was decided to donate the sum towards the memorial funds.” [Port Adelaide News 29 May 1925]
“Grey skies, grey sea, and a grey monument standing four square to all the winds that blow; and crowded about its base were those who had lost sons, brothers and comrades in the deadly conflict that shook the world those few short years ago. Flags here and there lent a touch of color to the scene, but Nature herself seemed to mourn the dead, with a cloak of sombreness she hung over all. Semaphore people and others from afar were gathered to witness the unveiling of the memorial to ‘All those who fell during the great war’, as the bronze tablet so simply told, and to those present was brought home the magnitude of the sacrifice made by the glorious dead.” [News 25 May 1925]
“Semaphore. . . I have not yet seen the plan of the proposed amusement scheme. If it is the intention of the Port Adelaide City Council to permit buildings to be erected almost at the foot of the war memorial, I can promise that the returned men of the district will be immediately up in arms against the scheme.” [News 19 Aug 1925]
Were here with many friends Gary Clarke Jerry Doby and my father and other's having some beer waiting to chase this Amtrak through all the semaphores .Were at Watrous N.M .The speed limit on this divison is 90mph in sections
DV281 Signal on display showing how 3 position Semaphore Signalling works. Yellow over Green means reduce to Medium Speed.
Diamond Valley Railway 58th Birthday Day 2.
Semaphore Tower (1923-1929) at HMNB Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
While the Admiralty had expirimented with semaphores, i.e. optical telegraphs since the 1790s, a permanent semaphore network linking London with Portsmouth was only completed in 1822. Signals were sent (or received) from a tower in the west of the dockyard which was destroyed in a fire in 1913. A rebuilt tower was opened in 1930 and is still in used by the Royal Naval Reserve.
Two Storey House
65 Esplanade, Semaphore
This substantial house represents the growth of Semaphore in the 1870s and 1880s, due in part to the extension of the Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway line to Glanville and thence to the sea end of Semaphore Road in 1878. It was built for George and Rosa Foulis on land purchased from Uriah Marshall in 1869. Foulis was master of the schooner Hawthorn that engaged in trade with the regional ports of Port Pirie and Port Augusta, shipping goods such as wheat, wool and copper.
Semaphore railway signals at Blackpool North Station. This time next year they will be replaced by colour light signals controlled by a signal box miles away.
Panasonic TZ9 camera, 8th April 2017.
Semaphore signal lives on as advertisement for the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum ~ San Luis Obispo, CA