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The signal box at Welshpool - from the train, 30/6/83. The netting and posts are possibly ex- tablet catchers?
0-4-4T Class H and its vintage coaches are held by the signal jst outside Horsted Keynes Station, waiting for clearance to proceed.
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."
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 :)
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Chilling out with this music: Of Porcelain - Signal The Captain
[Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont]
Signal box (1910) at Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen in Bochum, Germany.
This signal box was originally installed at the Köln-Mühlheim goods yard in 1910. It remained in use at this location until the 1970s and was transfered and restored at the museum at Dahlhausen. This included the re-construction of the corrugated iron cladding which had been destroyed in a fire and the rebuilding of the control apparatus.
The track circuits are operated by levers interlocked mechanically. This really can't go anywhere unless I can find suitable metal wheels though.
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.
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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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.
Ouessant, le Pont-Aven sort du Fromveur salué d'un nuage de fumée par l'Abeille-Bourbon en veille météo dans la baie du Stiff.
Car-ferry Pont-Aven greeted by a cloud of smoke from salvage tugboat Abeille-Bourbon on the watch close to Ushant shipping lanes, an area with both heavy traffic and hazardous weather conditions..
Night falls over Banbury South. The lights are on in the signal box and the lower quadrant signals remain in place, but for how much longer? An additional semaphore, visible on the far right was installed recently to give the platforms more flexibility. A Freightliner is halted in the lay-bye.
Techy stuff: Taken during that wonderful time between dusk and night when the sky turns royal blue. Train load behind 66522 is concrete sleepers, Washwood Heath - Taunton Fairwater Yard service.
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When the interlocking signal is pulled into the clear position the distant signal changes from yellow to green. When the interlocking signal is at stop, the distant signal shows "proceed, prepared to stop"
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Signal Mountain, as seen from Oxbow Bend on the Snake River, on a extremely cloudy and rainy October morning. The elevation of the mountain is 7,720 feet (2,350 meters) and is about 1,100 (335 meters) above the river. There is a road and hiking trails to the summit with spectacular views along the way.
Even on days like this, there is no better place to be than the Jackson Hole Valley.
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
Statesville, NC. March 2022.
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Demondrille Signal box once controlled the junction between the Main Southern line and the cross country line through Young and Cowra.
A class 33/1 and 4-TC push pull set ease off the West London line with 'The Kenny Belle" at Clapham Junction framed by part of the large signal box that dominated this location for so many years - October 83.
Interesting to think that just over 30 years ago this was the only regular (and very infrequent) passenger service between Clapham Junction and Kensington and Olympia. These days you only have to wait a matter of minutes for a train.
Taken in June 1980
View towards Stratford Southern signal box, on a sunny day in June 1980.. The box and ground signal are both raised up, for visibility.. The turnout in the foreground includes a steel stop block, presumably as there was no space for conventional catch points..
The tracks passing from left to right in front of the signal box are from Stratford Low-Level station, and these were electrified with DC third-rail in the mid-80s, for the service from Camden Road to North Woolwich, using redundant ex-SR EMUs....
Today (2024) this has all vanished, and the site is occupied by the Jubilee Line and DLR stations, but the signal box has survived, as it was moved (without the legs..) to Dereham on the Mid-Norfolk Railway, where it was renamed to 'Dereham Central'..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
I live alone, so this “Stay at Home Order” has effectively severed all my meaningful personal interactions with other human beings.
In March, when I first began self isolating, I felt as though I had been performing the lead role in a play when suddenly the lights went out and the audience and other actors rushed out, leaving me standing in the dark on an empty stage in front of rows of empty theater seats.
Nothing in my life had prepared me for dealing with this abrupt and dramatic change in my living situation. Initially, I kind of just stood there in the shadows feeling a little scared and a little overwhelmed.
Then the necessities of preparing for the siege ahead forced me into action.
I donned mask and gloves and braved trips to the grocery store to buy essential supplies. I was dismayed to find entire shelves empty of anything resembling paper products – no toilet paper, no paper towels, no tissues. Other shelves that ordinarily contained cleaning products, such as bleach, hand wipes, and all the spray bottles labeled with the name Lysol, were bare as well.
The shoppers around me seemed equally shocked and uncertain. As Americans, I think most of us had never before faced a shortage of anything, let alone something as essential as toilet paper. It was truly a watershed moment.
As time went on, my emotions seemed to vacillate between fear of the future and confidence that all of us could get through this if collectively we followed the mandates and stayed the course.
Each day I woke up feeling positive and hopeful, but then I’d watch the news, which invariably plunged me back into fearfulness.
Every day the headlines seemed to be the same – the virus was extremely contagious, people were dying, and the virus was spreading.
Would I catch it? And if I did get the virus, how would I manage being sick with no one here to help me? Would I die?
I was scared, and few things in life are harder than facing fear alone.
At some point I realized that trying to stay informed was immobilizing me, keeping me locked in a state of fear and uncertainty. So I stopped watching the news.
I was already doing all I could to protect myself, so there was nothing to be gained by continuing to submit to the daily jolt of terrifying information.
Then I started reaching out to my family and friends via phone. I discovered that this period of uncertainty has strengthened and deepened some of my relationships and allowed me to reconnect with old friends in new ways.
Like the woman holding the fiery flare in Edward Moran’s painting "The Signal," which hangs in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, I recognize that my family and friends are still there, standing on the distant shore, shining their light for me to see and keeping my hopes alive.
I live alone, but I am not alone.
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Edward Moran, "The Signal" in the Westmoreland Museum of American Art
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