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Walking the tracks, fun times.. always remember to pay attention though and never walk on the tracks with headphones on...
this I almost learned the hard way.
dwarf searchlight signals along Canadian pacific in Milwaukee.
Scotrail "Inter7City" HST 43127 (with 43015 powering at the rear) working 1A79 09:30 Edinburgh to Aberdeen passing Arbroath signal box and Wellgate level crossing on 15th September 2023. The 1911 North British Railway-built cantilevered signal box officially became simply Arbroath signal box in 1971 when the South signal box was closed, although it still bears its original nameboard.
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I took this from the edge of the Nerima-Takanodai platform of Seibu Ikebukuro Line.
I took a picture of six pieces in the bracket at 1/1000 seconds at this time. This signal lit at intervals of one piece when the taken shot was seen. In a word, this signal had blinked at high speed as it was not possible to confirm it by eyes. I was surprised.
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夕焼けです。ぼくはこれを西武池袋線の練馬高野台駅のホームの端から撮りました。
ぼくはこの時1/1000秒で6枚をブラケット撮影しました。撮ったショットを見てみると、なんと信号が1枚おきに点灯しているのです。つまり、この信号は目に見えないほど高速に点滅していたのです。驚きました。
I used to live in Cape Town in 2003. For just one and a half month I stayed in Greenpoint/ Three Anchor Bay.
Cape Town is now much more crowded. An explosion of tourists now and traffic jams. But what is still great... the drive into town!
So you have two major roads going into the city: the N1 and N2. The N1 comes from the north side which is traffic from Paarl, Bellville, Milnerton. The N2 comes from the east side which is traffic from Somerset West and the airport. The N2 into the city is FANTASTIC! You drive towards the Table Mountain and then around it with great twists, ascending and descending. 3x3 lanes, table mountain on your left, Atlantic ocean on your right en palm trees which seperate in- and outbound traffic. Crack your window open en put some music on and enjoy the ride. See video below.
CPT N2 inbound: vimeo.com/243554297
The substantial Caledonian Railway type N3 signal box at Fouldubs Junction was built in 1908 with a 77 lever frame that was increased to 80 levers in 1951 before being reduced to 40 levers in 1972 after the locking was overhauled. It stands at the junction of the one time Orchardhall branch which wasn't actually a branch but a through line to Falkirk via Bainsford Junction. It was the fact either end belonged to different companies the North British and the Caledonian which got it the designation a branch line. It closed in 1968 as a through route although the eastern end between the British Aluminium Plant at Orchardhall and here at Fouldubs Junction remained operational until 1991. The box is located on the freight only Grangemouth branch and now just controls movements towards Grangemouth Docks and Grangemouth Oil Refinery as well as adjacent freight terminal sidings.
Being a freight line I guess there was plenty of spare time between trains hence the signalman's splendid array of Geraniums in the box windows and the raised bed veg plot at the foot of the box steps.
One day I suppose these old semaphore signals will go.
Taken on arrival at Worcester Shrub Hill using live ND.
Swinderby signal-box a listed Midland Railway Type 3b box opened on 6th January 1901, and fitted with a 16 lever frame the same as most boxes on this line. The signal-box looks to be in a much more original condition that Fiskerton an identical box seen in the the previous photo, the windows are in the original style but look to be modern replacements, also you do not see many signal-boxes these days with a veranda complete with handrails.
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Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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The tri-head signal at the N. Market Interlocking on the TRRA has been upgraded to a modern style and has been moved from the south side of N. Market St. to the north side.
I'll never understand signal positioning: in the old location, the signal could be seen from a long way off to the south. In this new position, it can't be seen until the train rounds the Ryerson Steel building.
Terminal Railroad Association
Merchants Sub
North Market Interlocking
St. Louis, Missouri
This is a male Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus), introduced to Britain from North America in the 1960s. Unfortunately these animals carried a disease that proved fatal to our native White-clawed Crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), which are increasingly rare in Britain. I spotted several in one of my local streams. I removed this large male and popped him on the bank to phpotograph him. He was rather feisty and backed into a corner waving his open claws at me. I crouched down low and managed to get a shot showing the bright orange underside of his claws. Here is a photograph of the rare native White-clawed Crayfish showing its smaller, pale claws www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/9831997276/
Amtrak's westbound No. 353, a Wolverine Service train, splits a pair of intermediate signals in Chelsea, Michigan, as it barrels through at 79 mph.
Goal: A collegiate leadership retreat called "interesect." To play off the name the theme this year is "Signals." Calling us to pause and reflect at the interesections of our lives.
Audience: collegiate leaders
Direction: continue forward with the retreat name intersect
Project: front of a mailer
Other important info: I like candy
This left arrow retrofit kit probably wasn't compatible with this old traffic signal head, so the engineer decided to mount it on its own separate mast attachment. This signal is so old I can't even identify its manufacturer.
The imposing signal box at Aberystwyth, was the largest supplied by Dutton & Co. to the Cambrian Railway. Opened in 1893 and to the Dutton type 2 design with roofed porch/landing, it originally contained a Dutton frame of 78 levers, which was replaced in Great Western days with a 100 lever Horizontal Tappet frame. Note the wonderful concrete post lower quadrant bracket signals provided by the GWR, which were replacements for the original Dutton signals. The one on the right was later replaced with a tubular post bracket signal by the London Midland Region. Aberystwyth signal box closed on 25th April 1982.
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Pennsy 5665 at Chicago Union Station, Chicago, IL in May of 1964. Ed Derouin image.
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Seen through the woods, this railway signal has been abandoned and is falling apart. The Greenbelt Pathway that I use often during the summer is just across the railway. I have seen this abandoned signal before, looking kind of sad, but I was never able to get a good view of it from the pathway on other side of the railway. The top signal is facing towards the woods and the bottom signal is facing downwards towards the ditch alongside the railway. The numerical plate under the signals reads "144". I took a few different photos of this signal from different angles. The other photos can be found in my recent additions gallery along with a few other photos that aren't posted to my PBlog gallery.
Some one has spilt a beverage over this print but it is still of interest. The LNER, formed as part of the 'Grouping' of Britain's mainline railways in 1923, like the other three 'Big' railways took some time to find its feet 'architecturally' and indeed, partly due to funding being perennially tight, for the first few years of its existance sort of 'made do and mend'. However by the 1930s the company was starting to look at adopting 'standard' designs for built infrastructure to bring a stronger corporate identity to the public's view as well as being able to afford economies of scale. The other railways were also starting to explore similar schemes, the Southern Railway possibly getting further down the line (they liked concrete so much they had their own works) but the LMSR were also starting to move towards a more 'streamlined' architectural look.
In some ways the Big Four were following in the footsteps of London Transport who, through their consultant architect Charles Holden, and access to more money, had developed a house style of srchitecture that by the 1930s was utilising reinforced concrete and brick - in a style that leans towards a North European 'modernism' as found in the Dutch 'De Stijl' or the German 'Bauhaus'. There's a wee flavour of that here at Brunthill, a box that was sitiated on the now closed Waverley Route, just north of Carlisle and close to Harker. Sadly, the war intervened before any real strides could be made in widespread application of the 'Standard' and this box has gone. However, I believe that the Scottish Region of British Railways, the nationalised organisation into which the LNER was taken, adopted this design as 'their' standard for both ex-LNER and LMSR lines north of the Border. Anyhow, it is possible someone 'out there' knows a bit more. The box certainly has a 'moderne' feel about it - no sign of traditional timber here - it is difficult to know if there is a prefabricated concrete frame and then a brick skin or of it was of 'traditional' wet trades construction. However, the large concrete lintels, the flat roof and the steel framed windows' are very contemporary - I wonder of those windows warped, a frequent issue with units of such size at the time!
Prudhoe signal box is an rather tall structure and pleasingly still controls a number of semaphore signals around Prudhoe station as well as the road crossing leading to nearby Ovingham.
The box is an NER N1 opened in the early 1870's and fitted with a 45 lever frame.
Here 156451 slows for the station with a Carlisle to Newcastle service.
The scene at Truro station as the 2C12 07.22 Exeter St Davids - Penzance snakes past the outstanding semaphore signals at the west end of the station. HST power car 43097 is on the rear with 43186 out of sight on the front. The semaphore signals are to be removed with the final full day of operation being on the 26th February 2024. The HSTs will cease working services in Cornwall in December 2024 though this may extend to May 2025. Either way they are on borrowed time but will outlive the semaphores that have been here since the 19th century.
La colline de Sion est située au sud-ouest du département de Meurthe-et-Moselle, à proximité des Vosges. Elle s'étend sur les communes de Saxon-Sion, Vaudémont, They-sous-Vaudemont, Gugney, Forcelles-sous-Gugney, Housséville, Praye et Chaouilley. Le monument Barrès est le point le plus haut du plateau lorrain, massif vosgien non compris. Par distance orthodromique, la colline se situe à 6 kilomètres de Vézelise, 8 km d'Haroué, 30 km de Nancy, 31 km de Toul et à 39 km d'Épinal. Au lever du soleil, par temps clair, il est possible d'apercevoir le mont Blanc.
RD15822. Somersault signals at Weybourne Station on the North Norfolk Railway.
Wednesday, 23rd August, 2017. Copyright © Ron Fisher.
Macclesfield Signal Box.
An LMR Type 15 box commisioned in 1965 and controlling the line between Congleton (Stoke-on-Trent SCC) and Prestbury (Manchester South SCC).
It doesn't appear to have had any TLC for some years judging by the cracking brickwork and rotting timbers.
20th September 2018
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Out in the Utah desert, the 'new' intermediate signals look just as beat up as the old ones. The signals were placed but never installed due to the downturn in traffic on the old Rio Grande.
Floy, UT
June 5th, 2020
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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