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The coastal resort of Blackpool, home to both North and South stations, still hosts a lovely selection of semaphore signals. This is the view looking out of Blackpool North. There is another 2 signal bracket out of shot to the left.
All of these wonderful relicts are due for replacement when the line is electrified in the coming years.
A brace of wooden semaphores stand guard at the north end of Bewdley station as D1062 waits to head for Bridgnorth on the 1320 from Kidderminster, Saturday 29 August 2009.
While not a true or original semaphore, this approach signal governs the NS diamond at Leipsic several miles north of XN, where CRR 800 came off the B&O.
Please excuse the windscreen wipers, I was riding one of my friend’s buses while were trying to find a place to park our bus. This was taken on Tuesday the 27th of December 2022
I created this image as a collage of scans I personally made from cigarette cards in my personal collection. Four cigarette cards from the 1911 Will's Cigarettes "Signaling Series" showing the workings of the Mechanical Semaphore. This visual signalling device was used by the British Navy until 1943. Semaphore signaling with handheld flags ("flag semaphore") used the same arm poses as the mechanical arms of the mechanical semaphore, and continued use into the 21st century.
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I believe this image is in the public domain in the United States (and most other places) as an image first published before 1928. Any rights I may have inadvertently acquired by scanning it, I donate to the public domain under a CC0 license.
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