tarboat's photos with the keyword: semaphore

Maintenance underway atop a signal post at Peak Forest.

46100 'Royal Scot' passing the signal box at Damems on the Worth Valley Railway.

46100 'Royal Scot' approaching the signal box at Damems on the Worth Valley Railway.

The painting gang set about refurbishing the metalwork on the Norbury Crossing distant signal at Middlewood on the Buxton branch.

Clear signal at the beginning of a tour of Scunthorpe steelworks. These tours are highly recommended if you want to see something of the operation of a steelworks.

B1 passing the box at the end of the Damems loop on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway during a 30742 Charters photoshoot.

B1 passing the box at the end of the Damems loop on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway during a 30742 Charters photoshoot.

The use of wooden signal posts is a particularly fine feature of the Midland Railway Centre.

55 022 Royal Scots Grey crosses the Weaver Viaduct at Hunt's Lock, Northwich on the already very late running Ribble Lune Railtour . The train had just reversed at Lostock having traversed the branch between Sandbach and Northwich.

Standard tank pulling into the station at Consal on a dull February afternoon.

Sunset at Nordhausen station on the Harzquerbahn. The station lamp is a typical example from the DDR.

A short freight train comprising several standard gauge vehicles on transporter wagons departs the terminus at Nordhausen. View On Black

At the summit of the Jinpeng section of the Jitong Railway, the loops at Shangdian always made me think of Blea Moor. Of course Blea Moor is slightly wetter than Shangdian! One of the visual bonuses on some sections of this newly built railway were the semaphore signals such as these at the east end of the station as QJs 7041 and 7009 head for the summit tunnel a short distance away.

The former LNWR line threads its way from Arpley towards Ditton Junction through the former Crosfields soapworks and is seen here just after Littons Mill Crossing. The line is now used almost entirely by trains carrying coal to Fiddler's Ferry power station.