on a stormy day

Celebrated Australia Day at Semaphore on the Foreshore (9.30pm fireworks display over the beach from the Jetty).

Canon 5D, 24-70

2015

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ND filter and long Exposure

Passing the Llandudno home signals is 175113 on the 12:10 Llandudno - Llandudno Junction shuttle. The smaller semaphore used to control the carriage sidings and has therefore been out of use since the 1990's.

1st June 2010.

Erected in 1875, this Time Ball Tower was used by ships visiting Adelaide as a time setting device. The black ball was raised to the top of the mast and at one o'clock, was dropped again, allowing captains to set their chronometers. This device was in use up until the advent of time signals on radio.

Team 8's winning communications signals

Semaphore signal at the foot of the old Swanwick Colliery Branch at Swanwick Junction station, Midland Railway Centre. 27/01/2014.

Taken at Semaphore Jetty

This semaphore signal used to be located at Wilton Station.

Iceland, June 7th, 2011 - Day of Solitude

flags prior to my interest in flags flagging

EMR DMU 158773 faces the camera as it approaches Edale working 1L11 Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich. To its left, a semaphore signal is set to clear (for a delayed 1R66). In the distance, the portal of the Cowburn Tunnel is partially visible.

Hetty may have been past her first freshnness but she still had full control of most of her parts.

She could wave her ears about independently..

Send - two pies and a cheesse roll!

237 Military Road, Semaphore. the house was built by a Dr Curtis in 1897. Within two years it was bought by the Dominican Sisters.

Section of work showing status updates that formed the patterns.

The works as they were hung at the Ballarat Railway Station Platform 2.

1566 runs round at Llangollen, 12 April 2008

Semaphore signal gantry and the end of the line at Swanwick Junction, Midland Railway - Butterley during the Summer Diesel Gala, 17th June 2018.

Each Wednesday Monkton Senior School students take part in CCF activities. The images show the Navy Cadets who learned how to communicate using Semaphore.

Photographed at Semaphore, a seaside suburb in Adelaide, South Australia.

Lt. Col. Kevin Reeves passed command of the 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion to Lt. Col. Shylo Morrison in a ceremony in Barnes Field House Oct. 12, 2018. In keeping with the rich heritage of the Signal Corps, historic semaphore flags from WWI were used to issue the ceremony's commands. (U.S. Army photo by Tanja Linton)