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Built in 1904 Billingham signal box towers over Station Road, and unlike many of the boxes on the Durham Coast route is still in existence and in use.
The area still uses semaphore signalling and there is also a standard pattern NER cast iron footbridge to add to the railway scene. The only thing missing is the station itself which was moved to a new site further east in 1966. The original station platforms would have been in front of the bridge.
156472 winds it's way north with the 2W22 Middlesborough to Metro Centre service on Sunday 8th January 2017.
KCS 5024 borrowed power on the CN Waukesha Subdivision splits the signals as South Ackerville as it leads an empty ore train northbound.
I wish I had been wherever KCS 5024 was to see it plow through all the snow that got stuck on its pilot.
To see this train and two others with borrowed power: youtu.be/isxvaC2w6aU
It is the first Christmas illuminations this year. Here is crowded every year. I can watch this slowly now.
In Tokyo, I still wear a T-shirt every day because it is hot.
On October 5, 2013 in Marunouchi.
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今年最初のクリスマスイルミネーションです。 ここは毎年混雑するので、ゆっくり見るには今がいいかもしれません。
東京はまだ暑いのでぼくは毎日Tシャツを着ています。
2013年10月5日、丸の内にて。
Not only the racecourse beautifully restored signal box and a tree silhouette but a glimpse of the distant Malvern hills peeping over the hedge.
I have no idea why this camera went into stupid mode and found an ISO of 51200 when 160 would have worked nicely!
Image of a westbound BNSF intermodal train made in Hinsdale, Illinois. The train is passing the Metra Station located in Highland Park and named Highlands. (Scanned from a Kodachrome slide)
D1062 Western Courier arrives at Highley on 18-5-24 during the Saturday of the Spring Diesel Gala.
The working is the 13.45 Kidderminster to Bridgnorth service.
Ref: IMG_9384 SVR 18-5-24
Seemingly oblivious to the worn out concrete pavement and faded crosswalk markings, this well-dressed man on his way to the office passes underneath one of Chicago's L train stations clearly showing its age.
Olympus PEN Mini E-PM2 with M. Zuiko 17mm f/1.8
Info on the box from the "Settle Carlisle Railway Conservation Area (SCRCA)" website:
"The current signal box at Garsdale is a three-bay version of the Midland Railway 'type 4c' standard design and it became operational on 10th July 1910. Its original dimensions were 30ft. long by 10ft. 6in. wide and the operating cabin is 8ft high. It houses a 'type 33R' manually operated 40-lever tappet frame (which was manufactured in 1910 at the Derby signal works).
When first opened, it was known as 'Hawes Junction' signal box and it replaced two earlier signal boxes ('Hawes Junction South' and 'Hawes Junction North'). However, on 1st September 1932, it was renamed to 'Garsdale Station' signal box. (On the same date, the name of the station was officially altered from 'Hawes Junction and Garsdale' to 'Garsdale'.)
On Saturday, 24th December 1910, the operation of this signal box played a key role in the 'Hawes Junction Disaster' (one the most deadly accidents to have occurred on the Settle & Carlisle Railway).
In 1983 (when the line was being run-down for closure), the box was 'switched out' (i.e. it was not used for normal traffic purposes). However, it was maintained in an operational state and it was reactivated for short periods of time when traffic on the line was busier than normal (e.g. due to diversions from the West and East Coast Main Lines and when steam specials were booked to stop at the station to take-on water).
During the second half of the 1990s, the box was re-opened on a part-time basis (as traffic levels began to increase following the line's reprieve from closure).
In 2008, its opening hours were extended to 24/7 to cater for a significant increase in freight traffic. Also during 2008/9, a small extension was added to provide toilet and washing facilities within earshot of the operating floor (thereby reducing the need for the duty signaller to temporarily close the box).
In 2014, remedial work was carried-out to combat a subsidence issue and to extend the life of the box. During this 4-month (£275,000) project, the operating floor was supported by an internal steel frame constructed on a series of 'mini piles' and the building was fully refurbished (including replacement windows, a new slate roof, and repainting).
In 2021, the box’s structural timbers and outside cladding were repaired, the roof and windows were replaced (again), the staircase, toilet extension and window cleaning balcony were rebuilt, a new kitchen was installed, and the entire structure was repainted."
Here's a sign of changing times. We spent 2 weeks in Scotland, and I can count the number of railway photographs taken on the fingers of 2 hands. Stopping at Blair Atholl on our way to Inverness to drive the "NorthCoast500" route I was surprised to see Blair Atholl signal box still open and operative. For some reason I had thought that the Highland main line had all been re-signalled some years ago. I was wrong.
Blair Atholl box was a Highand Railway design dating from about 1890.
An unidentified Q6 wheezes past the wonderful gantry by Tyne Dock shed with a long train of hoppers. Only a few upper quadrant signals have replaced the original North Eastern lower quadrant examples.
While this is a "golden" shot of an old MILW signal, I doubt the signal department forces will think this is so golden if they have to work on it on account of the infestation of wasps under the shield.
Approach signal to Watertown on the Madison line.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Riddles 9F 92002 passes Kidlington Signal Box on a Saturday train for the North East on the 20 August 1966. 9F's had frequently been used on Summer extras in the early 1960's, but this would be comparatively rare at this date. 92002 had been allocated to Birmingham area sheds for most of its short life, but was transferred to Birkenhead Mollington Street (8H) in December 1966 and withdrawn on closure of that shed to steam in early November 1967. The loco would be cut up at Campbell's Yard Airdrie.
The Patrick O'Brien Collection
Here is a photo I took of the loco on more appropriate duty at Carlisle.
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0-4-4T Class H and its vintage coaches are held by the signal jst outside Horsted Keynes Station, waiting for clearance to proceed.
This eastbound auto rack train is on Track 1 so it is not getting a signal indication from the signal bridge on the west edge of Ashtabula on the CSX Erie West Subdivision. (Scanned from a slide)
shot last week, its starting to look somewhat like spring here in St. John's. Although were underneath a blanket of snow.. I am counting down the days until that spring sunny weather :)
An ES44AC working mid-train on A29 passes the approach signal for the interlocking with the CN Three Hills Sub.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Hitachi 800006 works away from Malvern Wells and heads towards Colwall tunnel on 17-11-21.
The working is the 1W01 09.50 Paddington to Hereford Great Western Railway service which was running 7 minutes late.
Rare double lower-quadrant wig-wag in Roseburg IN shortly after this it was removed without permission by a RR Employee !
BR Standard Class 7MT 70013 "Oliver Cromwell" is stopped in Swithland sidings on the Great Central Railway during a Timeline Events photo charter
Marines with Bravo Company, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, send hand signals as they head back to the USS Germantown (LSD 42) in Combat Rubber Raiding Craft, Feb. 17 , 2016, after conducting a successful boat raid the night before. The Marines conducted the boat raid as part of the 31st MEU's amphibious integration training with the Navy ships of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group. The Marines and sailors of the 31st MEU are currently deployed to the Asia-Pacific region.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Samantha Villarreal/Released)
HDR view inside the signal box at Hartington in Derbyshire. The signal box is now a visitors centre on the Tissington Trail through the Peak District. Restored to look like a working 'old style' railway signal box - everything's there apart from the trains these days....
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Projection stéréographique d'une place de jeu au signal de Sauvablin.
12 bracked shots at 10mm with a Panosaurus head. PTGui, Photomatix, Photoshop.
I first went on this playground to have fun, but then I realize a had my camera and my panoramic head with me... So I shot this panorama while playing around. I also give a try to merge a watermark, classic but looks pretty good to me.
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The Seaboard Air Line Railroad had a novel practice of twin ground masts on one side of the tracks in scenarios where other railroads might have used a cantilever or bracket post. Though unusual, this arrangement is perfectly compliant with older regulations that required that signals be above and to the right of the track governed. Think of Seaboard's scheme as identical to a bracket post signal – but without the structure below the masts.
I visited family in North Carolina in October 2018, and made a side trip to Aberdeen to photograph them. The handful of photographs I made that date are my only encounter with this unique feature of the SAL.
These signals were removed from service on March 16, 2020, and replaced with modern ground mast signals, one on each side of the track, as is standard modern practice.
LNER Church Fenton Signal Box - North Eastern Railway 1904 - on 7th September 1986
(Copyright Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved)
Signal PR52 at Par Station, soon to be removed. Showing some signs of weathering, though last time it had some work stainless steel nuts and bolts seem to have been used, a good choice.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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The impressive signal box at Canterbury West that spans the running lines is the feature of the station. Competing for attention on 14th March 2009 is the National Railway Museum's 'Britannia' No. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' and 'Electrostar' Class 375 EMU No. 375624. The former had just arrived with The Railway Touring Company's 'Golden Arrow' charter that had earlier visited the Folkestone harbour branch, and now forms 1Z84, 1309 ex-Folkestone Harbour. Meanwhile the Class 375 is about to call at the station with a service to London. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
Taken at Alresford Station, Mid-Hants Railway." Watercress Line "
The Signalman was very accommodating and allowing me in to capture these, whilst having his lunch.
This signal gave eastbound trains an approach indication for the home signal at Hudson, Ohio, on the former Akron Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It has been dark since Conrail ceased using the line years ago and Akron Metro bought it to railbank it.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Crawling up to the crossing, IC 1031 gains an extra splash of color on the nose, courtesy of the block signals at Church Road. Not only was it a lovely summer evening but Byron Hill is a great place for the last chase of the day. It's easy to get ahead of the train without driving another 50 miles and the blue hour action can be recorded without motion blur, if you're so inclined. July 20, 2024.