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Semaphore to Fort Glanville Tourist Railway. The steam train departs from the foot of the jetty at the end of the popular Semaphore Road cafe strip, and parallels the Esplanade and the sand dunes of one of Adelaide's most popular swimming beaches, before passing through the dunes near historic Fort Glanville at Point Malcolm. In South Australia.
Tom Thumb sits in the East Yard as the Sempahore Signals on Signal Gantry 9 look down over the tracks they protect.
DVR 2017 Phone Pictures.
This semaphore in Bremerhaven indicates the actual wind speed and wind direction in Borkum (B) and Helgoland (H). The wind rose is used to show the wind direction and the upper indicators show the wind speed. One horizontal indicator is equal to a wind speed of "2".
The line from Chanderiya to Gurla Jn (Kota) is very pleasant and still retains semaphore signals, such as this bracket on the approach to Basi Beriasal. Taken from train 59811, the 08:35 Ratlam Jn - Agra Fort "Haldighati" Passenger, Saturday 4th March 2017. Power was Ratlam's WDM3A beast 14092.
Semaphore signal SBJ99, now stands isolated on its pedestal after the demolition of part of Platform 3 at Shrewsbury station. 2nd January 2017.
Looking from Flemington Racecourse Signal Box towards Platform 1 with various Semaphore Signals in use.
Track Evaluation Vehicle EM100 (now known as IEV100) can be seen in Platform 1 with stabled suburban trains alongside.
Old Signalling Photos - Taken between 2008 and 2010.
I built these train semaphores (signals). Here they are shown with a train passing through.
Taken on Sunday, March 29, 2009 at BrickFest in Portland, OR by Bill Ward. See also BrickFest Photo Roundup on my blog.
Lower quadrant semaphore on the up main near the old ungated level crossing at the Bundanoon side of Penrose.
If you want photos of semaphores on the Shrewsbury - Crewe line, don't leave it too long. The colour light replacements are in as seen here at Wrenbury. With the heat haze shimmering, 66587 crawls towards the station with 4V64 Crewe Basford Hall to Wentloog liner, very lightly loaded, on Saturday 28.7.12
OK - not a great shot. But I know these people were fishing at 10.00 pm Boxing Day on Semaphore Jetty!
A very exciting find for me, a previously unseen species of jumping spider! Usually the only jumping spider I see is Salticus scenicus, the zebra spider, so anything else is a bonus.
This is either Heliophanus cupreus or Heliophanus flavipes, in all probablity it is impossible to tell the difference without a microscope because they are the same size (around 4-5mm), the males are practically identical, and are found in the same kind of habitat (low vegetation and leaf litter). Both are commonly found in the south of England, becoming more scattered in the north, although perhaps H. flavipes is slightly more common.
This is definitely a male, as can be seen by his quite elaborate palps. No one shot shows them off to their best unfortunately, but they are very intricate, quite bulbous with barbs and spikes on the 'elbows'. Where male spiders palps can often be described as looking like boxing gloves, these look more like mittens which I think make him look even more cute, although the female probably better watch out for those spikes (on the 'elbow' for want of a better word, just behind the main ball of the palp).
This jumper behaved very differently from others I have seen. Apparently they are heavily influenced by the temperature - when it is warm, they will come towards the tops of plants, but when it is colder they will stick to stones and leaf litter. Other jumping spiders seem to be continually on the move, but this one preferred to build a silken retreat and stay inside it, which seems to be consistent with his species. When I let him out he had a bit of a wander, but nothing like as curious or active as other jumpers.
The sweetest thing was that when I let him out to explore, he would be constantly twitching and waving his palps, in the semaphore that some spiders use to attract females. I was surprised he did this with no female in the vicinity as I understand (from David Attenborough) that this courtship dance increases their heart rate by several times and consumes a large amount of energy.