View allAll Photos Tagged signal
Haltwhistle box, opened around 1915 consists of a timber top mounted on a narrow brick base.
The narrow base was to allow the box to fit in the limited space available. The join between the narrow and wide portions is neatened by curved timber panelling, through which the point rodding and signal wires emerge to reach ground level.
The signal box (along with those at Wylam and Hexham) is listed ensuring that it should survive, perhaps one day looking over narrow gauge trains arriving from Alston on the South Tynedale Railway.
Adelante 180102 approaches Comer Road in Worcester on 24-5-17
The signals are controlled by Henwick signal box just beyond. The track is double but beyond Henwick both tracks become bi-directional
The working is the 1P40 09.54 Great Malvern to London Paddington Great Western Service
The ugly colour light on the left had recently replaced a semaphore a little further up the line.
The none tone mapped version of the sunrise this morning at Signal Hill. This is the Quidi Vidi side of the hill.
The 40 lever signal box was built in 1862, in 1889 the station was reconstruction and enlarged and the signal box was moved and attached at the rear to the existing cottages.
Ref No 2.2011 10 18 007 Copyright © Keith Long - All rights reserved.
A few semaphores still stand on the Central Oregon & Pacific. This double set just north of Creswell is, for the present, intact, but out of service. MP636.
A restricting signal (often termed a switching signal by crews) is displayed for CN 536, which is working between the non-CTC Valleyfield Sub and the CTC Kingston Sub (Marche à Vue in French). This signal serves almost as a small interlocking location located within the Coteau Junction plant. A train can pass on either side of this signal and it will keep displaying this red over yellow aspect. Thanks to Lorence Toutant for help with the caption.
DB Cargo UK Class 66s, 66158 and 66117 are seen passing Askham Tunnel with a southbound light engine move.
0U90 13:24 Belmont Down Yard - Whitemoor Yard.
With NS traffic ahead having cleared CP482 in Porter, Indiana, a CSX westbound has the signal to move off the Grand Rapids Subdivision onto the NS Chicago Line.
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you would like to use THIS picture in any sort of media elsewhere (such as newspaper or article), please send me a Flickrmail or send me an email at natehenderson6@gmail.com
Signal cabin at high level - Balham to East/West Croydon line in foreground at Streatham Common station - 27.8.78
The station was designed by Frank Thompson and opened by the North and East Railway in 1844. The main station building was abandoned by British Rail in 1978 and remained unoccupied until being converted into a restaurant. The main station building was given Grade II listed status on 30 April 1971.
The station's signal box, built in 1876, is one of only two surviving examples of the GER Type I signal box.
Wilmslow signal box located alongside between the Down Main line (in front of the signal box) and the Down Styal line at the south end of Wilmslow railway station
Wilmslow signal box was a British Railways London Midland Region non standard design, one of three similar signal boxes built in connection with the Crewe to Manchester 25kV overhead electrification. It was built by EB Jones and opened fitted with a Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Limited one control switch panel on 26th June 1959 under stage 2 of the resignalling between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, replacing Chelford Loop, Chelford Station, Chelford Sidings, Alderley Edge, Wilmslow Station, and Handford Sidings signal boxes. The signal box was closed at 01:30 on 10th December 2005 and demolished within a month during upgrading of the line between Crewe and Cheadle Hulme, officially closing on 19th June 2006 when signalling controlled by Manchester South Signalling Control Centre was commissioned
Ref no BT/00782
During March and April 2023, a major remodelling of Carstairs Junction took place with some trains diverted over the G&SW. Here on 25 March, 70812 powers under the minor road bridge east of Kirkconnel station with 6S36, Colas Rail Freight’s 0832 Dalston – Grangemouth tanks.
The G&SW was due to have its mechanical signal boxes swept away in 2023 but there were no signs of any replacement signalling work.
Kirkconnel's up starter has not only survived replacement but survived dwarfing (yes that is a word!) which is a surprise because a sign below the 4 car stop indicator, warns drivers of a remote signal! A discussion about this on Marra man's flicker site has probably got it about right, dwarfing it would make sighting difficult due to the footbridge, but a driver of a 4 car 156 probably couldn't see the arm placed so close, so high. Solution: an additional co-acting arm lower down. (well I'd like it!)
Flamborough Head Fog Signal Station.
In 1859 a fog signal station was built at some distance from the lighthouse, close to the cliff edge. Initially an 18-pound gun was used as the fog signal, sounded once every fifteen minutes. A cottage was built within the compound as accommodation for the gunners. In 1878, explosive rockets replaced the cannon, discharged every 10 minutes in foggy and reaching an altitude of 600 feet.
In 1908 an engine house was built next to the cottage and a fog siren replaced the rockets; it sounded one long and one short blast, every 90 seconds, through a pair of Rayleigh trumpets mounted on the engine room roof. Compressed air for the siren was provided by a pair of 22 hp Hornsby oil engines linked to a single-cylinder Hornsby compressor.
In 1924 the siren was replaced by a pair of diaphones, mounted in a metal turret on top of a porch added to the front of the engine house. This was itself superseded by an electric fog signal in 1975.
The fog signal compound remains in Trinity House ownership; along with the modern fog signal apparatus.
An eastbound stack train kicks up fresh show as it approaches a high green at West Essex. BNSF is replacing older searchlight style signals across the pass.
After a signal failure and level crossing failure, 1281 to Tailem Bend lifts its train from the home signal at Altmans road Mt Barker Junction into the crossing loop with GWA007,CLP14,CLP8,CM3314,FQ01 on the morning of 20-7-24
Class 'J' 4-8-4 no 611 eastbound, smoking despite the downhill gradient, passes under new signal gantries at Singer, west of Roanoke, Virginia, on the former Norfolk & Western Railroad's main line, with the return leg of an excursion from Radford. 29 May 2017
The signal is a modern lightweight signal based on a flat panel design containing LEDs to show each of the three colour aspects. These are becoming increasingly common in the UK as older signalling is renewed. The smaller black tile represents the signal identification plate.
Also shown is the signalpost telephone. In the past these phones would have been mounted directly onto the signalpost itself, but the modern standard is to have them separate with a walkway and rail for protection.
More signals by Welsh's Bridge Box at Inverness. Attempts to photograph trains here were thwarted by cloud - the sun being very intermittent.
The 425 is making time on the daily run. Taken on a Lerro Productions charter, the Reading and Northern engine and its consist sure make it fell as if we're in a time warp.
The Signal Tower stands on the shore at the mouth of the harbour. The top of the building was formed into a small observatory and contained a 5-foot achromatic telescope, a flagstaff and a copper signal-ball measuring 18 inches in diameter. By means of this, and a corresponding ball at the Lighthouse, specific signals were kept up daily between Arbroath and the Bell Rock
These mechanical signals have become rare, replaced by ones that are just lights. I like the old ones, though :-)
This army private sports an embroidered Signal Corps enlisted man's hat patch pinned unconventionally onto the left breast of his shell jacket.
CDV photo by S. Dome & co., Greencastle, Pa.
The principal elements of the Signal Corps badge included a pair of crossed signal flags over the letters "U.S." in old English script. Although not officially adopted by army regulations, the enlisted man's hat badge differed from that of officers in that it did not have an encircling gold wreath enclosing the crossed signal flags, nor did it have a lit torch in the center of the crossed flags. Instead the enlisted man's badge included a field of 13 stars in the space above the crossed flags.
Because it was perceived as being in direct competition to the Military Telegraph Service, the Signal Corps was constituted as a provisional body and not as a permanent branch of the U.S. Army and the use of identifying insignia did not come about until late in the war. Officially, the Signal Corps did not receive permanent status until 1866, a year after the war was over. But by then, its field experience during the war had proved its worth.