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An Indiana & Ohio train awaits a signal to take the main of the CSX Toledo Subdivision in Ottawa, Ohio. In the foreground is a venerable dwarf signal.
Based on but not an exact replica of the signal box in Foynes, co. Limerick, Ireland.
No points for guessing where this picture was taken ;-)
In the background you see Dfenz's great Kildare station.
Several weeks ago I began the restoration on this 1983 300D Turbo Diesel Sedan. It's Signal Red with Palomino Leather, one owner, with a sunroof and only 108,000 original miles since new. It's not too often you find a W123 in Signal Red. She's a perfect fit for her new owner!
A Liverpool bound service passes Maghull signal box circa 1990/91.
The box at Maghull was a S&F type 7 box built in 1875 & originally fitted with a 19 lever S&F frame.
The S&F frame was removed & Maghull box was refitted with a 28 lever L&Y frame in 1909 in connection with the electrification works.
The gated crossing was replaced in July 1977 by the BR(WR) type barriers seen here.
Around the time this photo was taken Maghull was a class"B" signal box serving as a block post with a trailing crossover.
Maghull at this time worked AB (Absolute Block) to Town Green in the Ormskirk direction & AB to Walton Junction in the Liverpool direction as well as supervising the adjacent level crossing.
Maghull signal box was closed & abolished (along with the boxes at Town Green & Walton Junction) in February 1994 under stage one of the Merseyrail northern lines resignalling with control of the level crossing passing over to Merseyrail IECC at Sandhills.
The train cleared, the signals went to red all around and stayed that way. To say the least waiting around got old fast, but I was bound and determined to hold out as long as there was the slightest chance that the 1035 was still on the way. Unfortunately my body was telling me otherwise and after a while I started taking periodic breaks in my car to give my back a rest. Then good news, an eastbound flashing yellow went up on M2 so at least something was coming! Since I’d already caught an eastbound on M2 from Forest Ave I headed for the station area to vary the view a bit. Time for some more impatient waiting and then a headlight appeared to the west. Is it, is it, is it, YES; it was the 1035! I would have done a little dance except that it would have hurt. Facing a flashing yellow they were just rolling along, fine by me since I didn’t want to be rushed!
Downers Grove IL / Main St
BNSF e/b road freight – Train R CHI452
IC 1035 SD70
BNSF 512 Dash 8-40CW (ATSF red bonnet), ex-ATSF 512
BNSF 2983 GP38-2R (Cascade green), ex-BN 2983, ex-ICG 2539, ex-GMO 641
6201 Princess Elizabeth from inside the signal box at Crewe Heritage Centre, October 2010 but could be anytime
Kirkham Station signal box. Saturday 16 November 1974
The signal box was closed on Sunday 16 November 1975 and demolished mid-late January 1976
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B. Slide No.1517
All my signals except the GRS L signal connect to the Cabinet through 3/4" conduits. I only planned on having three signals installed, so when I wanted to add more I installed two underground junction boxes. The US&S H-2 searchlight dwarf has the cabinet because I dont have it connected to the main cabnet yet. The GRS SC is waiting for a much taller mast, the GRS L signal might go or might stay, not sure.
GRS L Signal: This signal is a dwarf signal. It was damaged and replaced after a derailment. I installed a GRS D base on it and put it on a short mast. Something a railroad might do......
GRS MD Signal: This signal was controlled from Carrol Street Tower which was the South Approach to the Municipal Bridge. Originally the dwarf had purple as the lower aspect but was later changed to red. This signal has two 110AC transformers to step down the voltage for the 10Vac 14watt signal bulbs. This was installed around the 1930's and still has the City Of St. Louis property tag on it.
GRS SA Searchlight Signal: This signal came from the St. Louis Municipal bridge. The signal was installed around 1940 and was owned and operated by St. Louis. It was removed in the summer of 2006 by the TRRA Railroad. It was signal number 233 which was controlled from Gratiot Tower.
US&S PL Signal: This signal is the newer US&S position light signal that came from Columbus Ohio. It was never used.
Concrete Elevation Marker: This would be between the ex-NYC tracks and the ex-Wabash tracks just south of Lenox tower. The ex-NYC track had a 1-degree, 0-minute curve that began 47 feet north of Lenox Tower and ended 561 feet south of Lenox Tower or 233 feet north of the old IT overhead bridge. The ex- GM&O track had a parallel track on the west side of the NYC track that had a 1-degree, 10-minute curve. The ex-Wabash track had a 2-degree plus curve going in the opposite direction located in the same vicinity. The concrete marker that you found with "E 3 ¼" on one side and "1° 00" was in all probability a curve marker for the NYC track indicating a 1 degree curve with a super elevation of 3.25 inches.
GRS SC Searchlight Signal: This signal was on the KCS and was at MP 227.9
Griswold Rotation Stopsign: This signal came from the C&NW in Fairfax MI.
Cast Iron END OF BLOCK Sign: Found this in a creek in Sauget Illinois.
US&S H-2 Triple Stack Searchlight Signal: This signal came from Kansas City Terminal.
US&S Subway Signal: This signal came from the Chicago Area and was used on the CTA. This originally was two signals.
There was still a decent collection of standing water from the recent rainstorms in the area, so naturally the temptation to shoot some reflection shots crept in.
Inexplicably, there has been a replacement up for the older MoPac era signal that is up on a cantilever for going on at least 2 years now that has yet to be replaced.
-Northbound Signals
-UP (ex-MoPac) Chester Sub, CP D085 Chap
-Along Main St, Gorham, IL
-March 1, 2021
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Stalybridge signal box located by the Up Goods line at the west end of Stalybridge railway station. Friday 6th August 2010
Stalybridge No2 signal box was a Stevens & Sons/Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway type design fitted with a 70 lever Stevens & Sons frame which opened in 1885 in connection with the rebuilding of Stalybridge railway station. The signal box was renamed Stalybridge No3 in 1893 after new signalling and new signal boxes were built to improve the station's western approaches, and was further renamed Stalybridge No2 sometime by 1907 due to rationalisation and the closure of Stalybridge No1 signal box. A replacement 90 lever Stevens & Sons Glasgow New Product frame, manufactured at the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company's Irvine works, was commissioned on 21st May 1944. Resignalling on 6th November 1966 resulted in the closure Stalybridge No1 and Stalybridge No4 signal boxes with Stalybridge No2 signal box being renamed Stalybridge and controlling the whole of Stalybridge railway station and its approaches, the frame being reduced to 70 levers at the same time. An individual function switch was commissioned on 15th December 1984 controlling emergency replacement of SE101 signal which was installed on the Down Guide Bridge line in connection with the replacement of absolute block working by track circuit block working. The switch was was decommissioned on 16th April 1989 to be eventually reused for SE71 signal. On 13th May 1990 two intermediate block signal were commissioned on the down line between Stalybridge and Greenfield signal boxes. The Down Main Intermediate Block Home 2 signal was operated by 40 lever but the Down Main Intermediate Block Home 1 signal was numbered SE71 and operated as an automatic signal with an emergency replacement facility operated by a switch on the block shelf. The switch for SE71 signal was decommissioned on 5th April 1999 when the line between Stalybridge and Diggle Junction signal boxes was resignalled allowing the abolition of Greenfield signal box. At the same time a number of individual function switches controlling emergency replacement of SE101, SE103, SE104, SE105, SE106, SE107, SE108, SE109, SE110, SE111, SE112, SE113, and SE115 signal were commissioned in the new illuminated track diagram provided by First Engineering. The signal box was refurbished with uPVC cladding and windows in the early 2000s, and was closed on 27th October 2012 being replaced by signalling controlled from the Guide Bridge workstation in Manchester East Signalling Control Centre which was commissioned on 4th November 2012. The signal box was severely damaged by fire on 1st December 2012, the fire was reported by a passing train driver at 4:30am, and the remains were demolished later the same day
Neve su un segnale ferroviario....ma la ferrovia non c'è
Snow on a railway signal......without the....railroad
Not sure how this guy was going to get round the upcoming roundabouts at the end of Peacock Lane. He seemed quite happy as he passed us, shouting out for me to take his photo !
Signal Gas, St Johns, Oregon.
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16 October at Loughborough, and Sir Lamiel is moving closer as 34007 trails off in a haze of black smoke
The full moon rises over former Southern Pacific searchlight signals north of Shedd, Oregon, on August 15, 2008.
Approaching the station in Roanoke, Virginia...
Virginia Museum of Transportation, Roanoke, Virginia - July 2013
I used the new Topaz product Restyle on this image to manipulate the color tones. I like how it came out.
An Indiana & Ohio Railroad interchange job passing the signals at CP Clifton in the west side of Cincinnati, Ohio. Sporting both modern and legacy equipment, this control point is certainly one of a kind.
Ricoh GX500 on expired Kodak 400 iso.
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A high ceiling, as yet untainted by BRs push to fit all manual boxes with the lowered cheap polystyrene roof tiles - which although effective in warming the boxes, looked awful! Also present are the old tin light covers that you could spin around to any direction - unfortunately there never seemed to be enough light from them.
The signal box is a GWR design and was built in 1914. It worked to Wellington box until 2002 when that became absorbed by Madeley Junction (which itself was demolished when Wolverhampton PSB took over in 2012).
As well as the subsequent installation of various colour light signals it now works to the West Midlands SCC which was the final one in the "Russian Doll" effect when it took over Wolverhampton PSB in 2016.
The triple and double stack ground disc signals have since been reduced to single ones and the main semaphore section signal (no.90) with Severn Bridge's distant signal beneath was later converted into a colour light.
20th February 1990.
Out with the old and in with the new. The new signals waiting to be turned and put into use all along the BNSF.
Signal gantry at Quainton Road station, with Waddesdon just visible in the background. 9th April 2017.
Fog Repeater Signal FR132 on platform 2 at North Weald Station on the heritage Epping Ongar Railway (EOR) in Essex (UK).
Fog repeater signals which have similar operating principles to banner repeaters on Network Rail are extensively used on the London Underground network to forewarn {or repeat) a driver of a forthcoming signal aspect.
As the name suggests these were originally designed for use in poor visibility, however they are now used to warn the driver of the forthcoming aspect when the actual signal is obscured or out of sight due to platform buildings, a curved tunnel etc.
In this case the repeater is for signal NW132 at the eastern end of platform 2.
This London 'Underground' fog repeater is a legacy of when North Weald Station was on the Central (tube) line from 1949 to 1994.
A Crosscountry Class 220 Voyager slows down for the next signal at Bournville with the 15:35 (16 late) 1V58 Edinburgh Waverley to Penzance. There wasn't much distance between this unit and the London Midland 323s in front; in fact, they were still in the station when this reached the old Cadbury's bridge, hence why a yellow signal is being displayed.
Canterbury East Signal Box, 14 October 2025. Built 1911 by the South Eastern & Chatham Railway to one of their standard designs but raised on steel supports to improve visibilty. It is the only SECR signal box remaining.
Moreover, rather surprisingly, the box was fitted with a London & Chatham Railway lever frame dating from 1878, one of only two such frames still extant. It is Grade II listed. Unfortuately, the box is in dreadful condition and the wooden staircase giving access to the cabin seems to have been removed, presumably because it was rotting away.
RD8048. The signal box at the Hollycombe Steam Collection which is just outside Liphook in Hampshire. It came from nearby Liphook station.
The Collection comprises steam operated fairground rides and traction engines. There is also a 2’ gauge railway and a standard gauge railway although the latter is currently out of use.
The Collection is well worth a visit.
Sunday, 18th August, 2013. Copyright © Ron Fisher.