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SE Borden's Vader signal stands tall above the dormant rails of the CSX ex-Monon Hoosier Sub. The Vaders never were really focused on by photographers, understandably so, with semaphores and searchlights dotting the line. That being said, I am glad to have this shot. In late 2020 my family and I made multiple trips to the Hoosier Subdivision before it was entirely ripped up. As of 2024, it is now a trail.
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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60010 passes Wrawby Junction with 6E46 04:37 Kingsbury to Lindsey. 25/9/2015. This was well worth the 6am rise to get there in time for this train, especially as the signals have now gone. NB: I've removed a couple of wires from the sky in this picture.
DB Cargo Class 66/0 No. 66075 heads south from Leominster with 6V75, the 09:24 Dee Marsh – Margam steel on 27th May 2021.
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
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.
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...
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.
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.
On the restored Somerset & Dorset Railway line from Midsomer Norton South towards Chilcompton. The whistle sign is on the approach to a farm crossing.
Scanned IR lith print.
Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + Rollei IR filter (cutting @ 700 nm).
Morning of Oct 12, 2024.
Rollei IR 400 in Adox Adonal 1+100, semistand 1 h.
Lith printed on Foma Retrobrom 151 Sp FB and developed in Moersch Easy Lith (25A+25B+150OB+700H2O) @ 30°C.
Toned in Se 1+9, 30+ sec.
The danger of Se toning a lith print. Just a bit too much, and all the colour is gone. But still a decent IR print :-)
And it's not a semaphore, just an overexposed Don't Park Here sign...
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
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.
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.
The steam-heating boiler on Brush Type 2 no. 31195 appears to be working well as it passes through Hinckley with the 10.15 Birmingham - Norwich service. At the time these locos, together with five or six Mk 1 carriages, were routinely rostered on these cross-country services.
Composition techniques were obviously work-in-progress (no change there then) with the home signal slightly obscuring the signal box for apparently no good reason. Nevertheless the shot is still hopefully of interest to rail-fans of a certain age.
This frame is a couple in front of the shot "Au revoir, but not Adieu", uploaded a few days ago. Needless to say the damp, wintry weather conditions prevailed. Looking at the crossing 'coverage', I reckon this was a taken with the 35mm F2 lens, the widest one I had at the time.
Ilford FP4 rated at 125asa
14th January 1978
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
Amtrak 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, races past the Santa Fe semaphore signals near Wagon Mound, NM.
This section of line features some of the last operational semaphore signals anywhere on the American main line railway system. These signals were originally installed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1920s. Two of the 11 electrically powered semaphore signals still in use on the Raton Sub line are visible in this frame. The line is owned by BNSF but for many years has only been used by Amtrak’s Southwest Chief Chicago – Los Angeles service.
Wagon Mound, NM.
Monday, 28 October 2024.
A pair of West Midlands Class 172s depart Worcester Shrub Hill with a service to Hereford on 5th March 2020.
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
66563 eases into Barnetby's reception sidings with an empty coal working to join stablemate, 66620, whilst the soon to be axed BE70 semaphores provide a frame.
Tuesday 12.5.15
An unidentified BR 9F slowly works a freight train south through Chester station on a cold winters day on 22 February 1967, passing some lovely ex.LNWR semaphore signals (with paper litter on the track).
A new CP Gevo leads potash train Z493 past the semaphores near Saltillo, Indiana on a Spring morning in 2007.
It's now over a year since I ventured out before dawn on 23rd November 2018 to capture the final day of manual signalling in my local area.
1A12 07:00 Hull - London King's Cross rides the switchback past Gilberdyke's semaphores as it reaches the end of the manually-controlled segment from Melton Lane. The new order can be seen lying in wait on the left.
Very much part of the scene on the Wigan - Southport line are the class 150 DMU's now approaching the veteran stage. Northern 150129 gets away from the Parbold stop with the all stations 09.31 Southport - Stalybridge service.
* Parbold still has semaphores and a manual crossing at Chapel Lane but this is due to go later this year.
The signalbox at the station has recently been repainted and looks pristine.
A view of Semaphore Tower from HMS Warrior in Portsmouth Harbour. The original Semaphore tower was built in 1833 and was erected on the roof of the Rigging House and Sail Loft buildings in Portsmouth as the terminal station of the London – Portsmouth Semaphore Line. However, this tower was destroyed in a fire in 1913 and the tower we see today was opened in 1930.
In the foreground are several historic boats which have entered preservation.