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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.
10/2020 - Springer, NM
Amtrak 150 leading Train No. 3 'knocks down' the semaphore signals near Springer. The challenge to get ahead of the 79 mph train begins now.
This set of semaphores was apparently replaced 10/2021 after the mechanism failed in one of them.
10th May 2008 sees 6233 Duchess of Sutherland on the Fylde Coast Express . This was an authorised visit to Blackpool North signal box at the time and I was fully supervised.
The semaphore replacement programme at Wrawby commenced this morning and I believe the engineering possession will take around a fortnight to replace these wonderful old semaphores.
Like many I have made a recent and last visit to capture the semaphore scene. In this view tugs 044 and 001 are about to cross at the west end of Barnetby station.
47458 “County of Cambridgeshire” is backing out from Whitehaven's bay platform underneath Bransty's down homes in the early 1990s before running forwards as 1E01 mail to Huddersfield.
The down home signals were 53 & 58 and were at the end of the platforms (there was another [55] out of sight on platform 3) so were a bit like starters but the actual section signal can be seen in the distance on a bracket, weirdly placed at the bottom of the doll. The up home junction signals can be seen to the right of the down starter just beyond the back of the train. The arm on the right (from our viewpoint) for the route into the tunnel to Corkickle with the other arm and calling on signal below it for the bay.
The line in the foreground (once the middle road) was still operational at this time with a smattering of ground signals providing some operational flexibility. Sadly though, the double track Docks Branch and Colliery siding that once lay to the left had been lifted.
Thanks to the Unidentified Class 47s FB group for loco ID
66739 approaches the most southerly point in it's long journey to Fort William as it draws to a halt at Newsham. The locomotive will run around the train here, before heading back north.
Although rather less of a photographic draw than some other areas of the Blyth and Tyne network I thought it was worth recording this location, as the line here will see major changes when passenger services are reintroduced. The current level crossing on the busy A1061 is to be replaced by a bridge to the south and this area will be the location of the new Newsham station. Obviously the signal box and semaphores will also be swept away in the development.
5th March 2022.
Amtrak P42DC No. 129 leads an on time westbound "Southwest Chief" through the intermediate semaphores at MP 706.2 about a few miles south of Springer, New Mexico at Robinson along BNSF's Raton Subdivision on September 4, 2017.
DB Cargo Class 66 66074 passes Ketton with 4M79 08:00 Felixstowe South to East Midlands Gateway containers.
A 142 unit approaches the junction with a train from Morecambe as 68024 waits for the road with a lightly-loaded 6K05.Probably the only time a Pacer will appear on this photostream !
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A northbound AWC Pendolino gets the 'right away' at Crewe Platform 11 on 28th September 2020.
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The Santa Fe semaphore era survives another year. The Southwest Chief, semaphore controlled siding, and low angle, day before winter solstice sun in the high desert. How many more years?
Amt 4
Chapelle, NM
12.20.19
DB Cargo Class 66/0 No. 66075 heads south from Leominster with 6V75, the 09:24 Dee Marsh – Margam steel on 27th May 2021.
Class M11 number 958 departs from Maho Junction in Sri Lanka with the 1120 Kankesanthurai to Colombo. She is hauling a rake of relatively new Romanian built air conditioned stock.
A Brush built Class M7 number 802 waits in the station to depart with the 1640 to Kurunegala.
The M11 was built in the Banaras works in Varanasi India and has the same engine EMD 12-710 as our very own class 66s., these are rated at 3000hp.
Fair Haven & Westville open car 355 (J.G. Brill, 1902) is seen during a night shoot at the Connecticut Trolley Museum, staged by the museum's restored and operational semaphore signals.
Shrewsbury, one of only a handful of locations on the UK rail network where semaphore signals are still in use.
25 years ago the Alco RSC fleet of the Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses was still out and about.
While most German railfans went to the north of Portugal visiting the narrow gauge lines and the Douro valley I went south, crossing the Tejo River from Lisbon and was in a diesel paradise.
The RSC2 and 3 clearly were on borrowed time and by now not much is left from the rest of the colorful roster, that held English Electrics and license productions of French designs. Plus the hand-me-down DL535S acquired from the Spanish RENFE.
I spent only a week in April 1996 but trying to get the most out of it. Sleeping in low-budget pensaos and saving the money for the gas station.
The junction station of Pinhal Novo was quite the hotspot. RSC3 1524 had delivered a string of empty bilevel autoracks to the Ford/Volkswagen plant at Penalva and returns light to Barreiro for servicing.
The auto plant was built on the new mainline leaving the frame to the right. This line now leads directly to Lisbon.
And yes, Pinhal Novo had semaphores, a lot of semaphores.
April 24, 1996
On the restored Somerset & Dorset Railway line from Midsomer Norton South towards Chilcompton. The whistle sign is on the approach to a farm crossing.
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."
www.naturespot.org.uk/index.php/species/poecilobothrus-no...
47 568 awaits departure from Ipswich with the 14:17 Norwich - Liverpool Street
This was during the short period after the semaphores disappeared, but before the wires went up
A telephoto shot of BR Standard class 5 no. 73156 passing the semaphores at Charnwood, Loughborough on 19th November 2011 heading 2A12, the 10.40 service from Loughborough Central to BR
Leicester North during the GCR 'Last Hurrah' steam gala.
Amtrak Train #4 splits the Wagon Mound intermediates on its way across the plains of northern New Mexico.
A 4 1 05A (EB Southwest Chief)
AMTK P40DC #821
AMTK P42DC #18
Wagon Mound, NM
January 6th, 2020
Pontrilas signal box is a McKenzie & Holland structure (Worcester) built for the GWR in 1882 and was refurbished in 2009.
60007 Sir Nigel Gresley works past the box with a return Saphos Trains charter "Welsh Marches Express" on 27 July 2023.
66080 Passes through Gainsborough Central with 4R50 10.38 Drax Power Station to Immingham diverted biomass empties on Thursday 20th February 2025.
A throwback to the 22nd May 2015 as 60054 heads the 6M24 Lindsey to Kingsbury loaded tanks past Barnetby East box. The semaphores have now long gone but Barnetby remains a great place to observe the frequent freight movements in and out of the ports and oil refineries of Immingham.