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Semaphore signal placed at the bottom of the driveway near the street visible by people driving by. We could not place it trackside with many trains passing by daily.
As with many railway routes and stations in East Anglia, Lowestoft is still in a bit of a time warp. Still using Semaphore Signals and still with a working Signal Box.
One of the old semaphore stations that linked the Admiralty in London to Portsmouth.
More details for the history fans.
Dedicated to all those who fell during the Great War 1914–1919.
The laying of the four corner stones was performed on Sunday afternoon (27-4-1924) by the Mayor of Port Adelaide (Mr. H. Slade), on behalf of the citizens, Mrs. Magnum on behalf of the mothers, Col. C.P. Butler on behalf of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' Imperial League, and Miss E. Sanders on behalf of the widows and orphans. The corner stones are symbolical of the men who rallied from the four corners of the globe in answer to Britain's call. In a cavity a canister containing a copy of South Australian newspapers of Saturday April 26, was placed under the citizens' stone.
On 24 May 1925 the unveiling was performed by Lieutenant Colonel L O Betts O.B.E., President of the Semaphore and Port Adelaide Sub Branch R.S. & S.I.L of Australia.
This memorial was built using seventy tons of granite from the quarries at Harcourt in Victoria. Clocks are installed on each face of the monument: the structure is 27 feet high topped by a Carara marble figure of Peace.
Mr I. Topham, of Norwood, was the designer and builder. The design was selected by exhaustive ballot from the 30 designs submitted.
ALP says - "Right and starter signal green" when the LP sets to notch up the ALCO and leave Ajnod yard !!
Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) 80 Class 3-car DEMU No.85 767 734, arriving at Portrush with a local service from Coleraine, August 1994.
© Robert McConaghie
Semaphore instruction next to Building 26. From my family collection, dated on the back as October, 1931.
Just the right gap for a tin rocket filling! 153353 heads through Long Garden, north of Dorrington, with a Swansea to Shrewsbury service, 4.8.12
I built these train semaphores (signals).
Taken on Sunday, March 29, 2009 at BrickFest in Portland, OR by Bill Ward. See also BrickFest Photo Roundup on my blog.
From my grandfather 2nd. Lieutenant Francis Charles Long's copy of "The Non-Commissioned Officers' Guide to Promotion", 1915, as recommended by the War Office.
Granite & bronze sculpture by Deb Sleeman, launched Oct 2011. It represents the detritus of human settlement in the Semaphore area - aboriginal artifacts, ship figureheads, fishing net, railway engine, amusement park clowns & ferris wheel, football logo, plants, seeds, birds, bottles and more.
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hand coated platinum print from an 8x0 neg taken with a most honorable 12" red dot artar lens
6A passes the Home Stick on the DOWN side of Menzies Creek with the first train of the day. 1/11/2016
Trans Pennine 185150 arrives at Blackpool North, sandwiched between the station's fantastic semaphores