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6233 Duchess of Sutherland heading Vintage Trains "Lickey Banker" approaches the junction at Droitwich Spa passing a Birmingham bound train on 20 November 2021.
66187 powers up the hardly used Ogmore Vale extension line en route to Tondu Junction on the 6O32 Margam to Llanwern sidings, seen amongst the surviving semaphore signals at Tondu. The train will run round the Garw loop and then head south on the Maesteg line to Bridgend to join the main South Wales line. Why the need for three semaphore signals along this short stretch of line I don't know, not that I am complaining!
18/11/2018 (Sun) 1539 Broomfleet 180110 1H03 1248 London Kings Cross - Hull
(The line between Gilberdyke & Hull was re signalled the following weekend)
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Semaphore. Semaphore is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located in north-west of Adelaide on the Gulf St Vincent coastline of the LeFevre Peninsula about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the Adelaide city centre.
This photo was taken this afternoon at the Adelaide Semaphore Beach, one of the most popular beach in Adelaide~~ But is a bit cold today, therefore not many people around~
The St Ives branch train has just departed from St Erth as Castle HST power car 43097 (43187 on the rear out of sight) leads the late running 1547 Plymouth to Penzance in to the station. St Erth still sports a fine array of lower quadrant semaphore signals.
No excuses for uploading this shot from this classic location.
Its been on my list of places to visit for a long time.
The shot is at Gilberdyke looking east.
The semaphores have only a few weeks left.
This shot is not taken from the end of the platform, this one resulted in Richard and myself hiking for what seemed like for ever along side a drainage ditch and through some woods to get to a foot crossing in the middle of nowhere that went to nowhere and came from nowhere.
20303 and 305 are engaged on RHTT duties as they pass through the dappled sunlight.
37275 & 37088 head through Brocklesby, when it still had semaphores with a Santon-Immingham empty iron ore working, 5.9.88.
After snapping a blue hour shot of the Levy semaphores, the thought occurred to me to check to see where Amtrak was. If it was on time, I should have seen it near Raton, but I had not. I assumed it had passed by while out of sight of the freeway, but a check of the Amtrak site showed it was running late...in fact, it was less than 10 minutes away!
In a panic I quickly setup at the intermediates between Levy and Wagon Mound, and with little time to even get off a test shot, I went with an obvious composition.
During my test shot, the semaphore lit, and seconds later, here comes Amtrak barreling towards me, snow blowing like crazy, a truly dramatic sight! Click went the shutter, and the train was here and gone in seconds. Here is the result. The shot certainly captures the speed and blowing snow, but I'll always wonder if I'd had more time if I'd been able to pull off a far more dramatic shot.
Relegated off a top link express to an overnight Parcels working, A4 Union of South Africa waits patiently for the road...
Taken during a 3P20 charter evening, an officialy condemned no9 puts on one last show at Bury Bolton Street.
Bonfire night smog and clag from Liam Barnes smouldering wellies bring the streak back to life for one final time...
Following the closure of the manual Kirby Summit signal box in November 1994, some rationalisation of the signals has taken place here since my previous visit.
Sutton Junction's down distant has moved up to replace Kirkby Summit's starter (or is it section) signal.
In the background, the up distant for Kirkby Summit has been removed.
60011 'Cader Idris' heads south on the 1972 B.R. built deviation with 7G17, 09.21 Thoresby colliery to Rugeley power station on the 21st December 1994.
©Dave Peachey.
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The name Iris is Greek and it means rainbow for its many colours. However, most irises are shades of blue or purple.
Lately I have seen them white, yellow and mix of yellow and white.
The majority of irises that we see today are hybrids of the originals.
The iris has been around for many centuries, and many artists have chosen to paint them.
There are several famous paintings of the flowers. From 1888 to 1890, Van Gogh painted at least four paintings of irises.
Monet painted "Iris" sometime between 1914 and 1917.
Not only is the iris a beautiful flower, but also they have several uses.
As a live plant they are used as a water purifier.
They are ingredients in some perfumes, homemade toothpaste, pottery and herbal medicines.
The stylised iris, fleur-de-lis, descends from the white iris which is native to Florence, Italy and which grew even in its city walls.
This white iris, displayed against a red background, became the symbol of Florence until the Medici family, to signal a change in political power, reversed the colours making the white one red and setting in motion a centuries-long breeding program to hybridise a red iris.
Catherine de Medici carried this symbol of Florence to Paris when she married the king of France where this most famous of irises acquired its nickname, fleur-de-lis.
The iris has been associated with France as Louis VII adopted it as a symbol in the 12th Century.
In Flowers'-language: Iris means faith; hope; wisdom and valour
I wish you a good day and thank you for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
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BNSF (ex-Santa Fe) blades 7741 and 7742 about four miles west of Las Vegas, New Mexico, June 9, 2019, on the Glorieta Subdivision. This is an intermediate signal set between Las Vegas and Ojita. Photo by Joe McMillan.
Freightliner Class 66/6 No. 66610 approaches Edale station with 6H80, the 10:28 Ratcliffe Power Station – Tunstead Sidings hoppers on 4th January 2019.
Colas 60026 gets the road at Hellifield with the Carlisle Yard to Chirk Kronospan logs.Signaled off the up goods loop. Number 6 up goods loop home 2 is a Miniature arm on a tubular post.
UP LBU53B passes the fixed approach semaphore in Watertown, WI. I never thought I'd be able to see one of these things in person (especially on a class one) but thus, here it is.
A Conrail double-stack train crosses the former GM&O line to St. Louis at Brighton Park. Until 2007, this busy junction was controlled by a switchtender in the shanty to the right of the train, who manually threw switches and set signals for trains to proceed through the junction--after they first came to a complete stop.
Two Northern Pacific semaphores are prominently displayed along the Willard Munger Trail in Willow River where the Northern Pacific once ran from Saint Paul to Duluth. Very few remnants of the right-of-way's railroad past remains along the 70+ mile trail, but these semaphores are a couple of the details surviving. Nice to see blades in Minnesota!
66065 passes through an impressive array of semaphores at Worcester Shrub Hill Station working the 6V07 Round Oak Margam empty steel.
With the sun starting to set this semaphore will soon be history as new colour light signals are replacing these baeautiful functional works of art
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Or SEMAFLORES? LOL
The name Iris is Greek and it means rainbow for its many colours. However, most irises are shades of blue or purple.
Lately I have seen them white, yellow and mix of yellow and white.
The majority of irises that we see today are hybrids of the originals.
The iris has been around for many centuries, and many artists have chosen to paint them.
There are several famous paintings of the flowers. From 1888 to 1890, Van Gogh painted at least four paintings of irises.
Monet painted "Iris" sometime between 1914 and 1917.
Not only is the iris a beautiful flower, but also they have several uses.
As a live plant they are used as a water purifier.
They are ingredients in some perfumes, homemade toothpaste, pottery and herbal medicines.
The stylised iris, fleur-de-lis, descends from the white iris which is native to Florence, Italy and which grew even in its city walls.
This white iris, displayed against a red background, became the symbol of Florence until the Medici family, to signal a change in political power, reversed the colours making the white one red and setting in motion a centuries-long breeding program to hybridise a red iris.
Catherine de Medici carried this symbol of Florence to Paris when she married the king of France where this most famous of irises acquired its nickname, fleur-de-lis.
The iris has been associated with France as Louis VII adopted it as a symbol in the 12th Century.
In Flowers'-language: Iris means faith; hope; wisdom and valour
I wish you a good day and thank you for your visit, so very much appreciated, Magda, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY images or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. If you do, without accreditation, it is STEALING © All rights reserved
Iris, two, "yellow Iris", "Dutch Iris", yellow, white, petals, flower, studio, black-background, colour, design, square, "Magda indigo"
Approaching from the Crewe direction, 66512 leads 4V20 Fiddlers Ferry power station to East Usk Yard, empty coal, towards Shrewsbury.
66165 heads the 6G07 13:50 Fowey Dock to Goonbarrow china clay empties carefully over the bridge and level crossing, passing the lovely semaphores, (controlled by St Blazey box), before picking up speed on the final part of it's short journey.
The line here is unusual having a watercourse to either side of the embankment, a stream to one side and the former canal to Par harbour.
18th October 2018.
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Semaphore. Semaphore is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located in north-west of Adelaide on the Gulf St Vincent coastline of the LeFevre Peninsula about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from the Adelaide city centre.
This poor guy was the resident star attraction in a hardware come plant shop in Semaphore South Australia. I stood for a while looking at the details in his face and the array of tiny feathers under his eye.
2015 has not yet seen it's first sunrise in Wagon Mound, NM as searchlights stare at empty track in the 3am hour. I was driving from an assignment in Colorado to an assignment in New Mexico