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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.
Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 44871 storms out of Fort William in the pouring rain with the afternoon Jacobite, the 14.40 to Mallaig.
A landslide south of Arisaig blocked the line the next day, Thursday, trapping this engine and its 300+ passengers in Mallaig. With the line still closed, on Friday & Saturday the Jacobite ran to Crianlarich much to the dismay of die-hard Harry Potter fans!
The only fixed signals left on the West Highland are at Fort William Junction (renamed from Mallaig Junction in recent years) and the Home signal has a sign on it recording "End of radio token working".
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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, (*_*)
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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.
Brit No.70000 Britannia heads south along the Welsh Marches passing an attractive array of semaphore signals at Woofferton Junction, heading Saphos Trains "The Welsh Marches Whistler" on 8 June 2022.
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.
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#AbFav_The_COLOUR_WHITE_👻
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
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A Louisville bound Indiana railroad train passes the former Monon semaphores at Saltillo south of Orleans, Indiana.
One of the Inter7City Scotrail HST sets headed by 43183, passes the rather lovely 1877 built Caledonian Railway Type 1 box at Errol on the Perth to Dundee line.
The signal box controls the level crossing and some fine semaphores.
7th June 2019.
26.8.2021.
SR Maunsell designed 'S15' Class 2-6-0 No 825 approaches Levisham station and its fine array of lower quadrant semaphore signals with a Pickering - Grosmont passenger service.
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50 010 Monarch passes one of Aller Junction's semaphores after descending Dainton bank with 1B64, the 18:35 Plymouth - Cardiff
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.
37425 heads up the grade past the semaphores at Clipstone West Junction with the 1Q08 Derby-Derby via High Marnham, Worksop and Thoresby test train, 23.4.15.
ScotRail Class 158 DMU 158732 speeds past the semaphore signals at Blackford on the back of a Glasgow Queen Street to Inverness service.
Units: Class 158 DMU 158738 and Class 170 DMU 170434.
Location: Blackford crossing, Perth & Kinross, Scotland.
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
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.
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.
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.
Located at the former Erie Railroad Newfoundland station is a semaphore signal, still standing out of service as a piece of Erie Railroad memorabilia. Here, NYS&W SU-100X passes the relic on its way to Croxton.
Columbia River Belt Line "Skookum" #7 splits the semaphore signals leading into the Sunol depot at the Niles Canyon Railway
10/2020 - Wagon Mound, NM
Sorry; I couldn't pick just one frame. You folks can decide which one is best.
As the weak winter sun attempts to break through the mist on 19th February 1984, 47577 'Benjamin Gimbert G.C.' arrives at Norwich with a service from Liverpool Street. A Class 101 heads out of the DMU stabling point.
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