Contributions of the group Signals and signalling

To Corkickle

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:10:46 +0000

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156 414 departs St Bees with a service to Corkickle. The line is currently severed at Corkickle tunnel due to collapse of mineworkings under the line in the tunnel.

Parkend Pannier

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:26:43 +0000

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Arrival at Parkend with the ballast hoppers. A great charter with 9681 on the Dean Forest Railway.

Big train - bigger railway - Stratford - 26.5.2015

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil Sutters) — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:45:34 +0000

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Big train - I think Eurostar trains have 21 carriages. I know it was a long walk to get to our carriage which was near the front of the train, when we took a trip to Brussels.

Ballast hoppers

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:16:15 +0000

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Lovely autumn light as Pannier 9681 brings the ballast hoppers uphill at Norchard on the Dean Forest Railway.

Chlorine world

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:52:41 +0000

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Compressed chlorine storage at the INOVYN ChlorVinyls Limited Rocksavage chemical works. This plant mainly produces chlorine, caustic soda and chlorinated derivatives. I believe that these spheres are no longer used.

The signal was once used to control vessels using Weston Marsh Lock which links the Weaver Naviagation to the Manchester Ship Canal. The Weston Canal running across the image linked the Weaver to the docks at Weston Point and also the now derelict Runcorn and Weston Canal.

Bewdley WD

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:33:24 +0000

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WD 90733 pulls away from Bewdley with a ballast train on the Severn Valley Railway.

Bo'ness

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:00:06 +0000

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Sunset at the Bo'ness headquarters of the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway operated by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society.

HFF Great Central Railway 14th January 2026

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:32:24 +0000

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The visiting steam locomotives for the upcoming 2026 GCR Winter Gala are all in Loughborough now.

Here British Railways Standard 9 2-10-0 92134 from the NYMR stands in platform 2 at Loughborough.

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

Cranmore milk

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:36:37 +0000

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46447 leaves Cranmore station on the East Somerset Railway with a train of milk tanks.

Great Central Railway Swithland Leicestershire 30th September 2024

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:07:51 +0000

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GWR Manor 4-6-0 7828 Odney Manor and Hall 6990 4-6-0 Witherslack Hall double-heading on a Photo-charter approach the Swithland Up Home bracket signal & the junction with the Mountsorrel Branch.

Distant

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:31:33 +0000

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LNWR Coal Tank 1054 passes the fixed distant signal by the foot crossing south of Rowsley as it heads towards Darley Dale with a short freight.

Toowoomba Signal Box P9127286

nobody@ipernity.com (GrahamH) — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:30:52 +0000

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The structurally restored signal box in Toowoomba's yard. See PiP for a photo from 2013. The signal box has no function as all signals and points operations are now done from a control centre in Brisbane, the state capital. September 2025.

HFF to my Ipernity viewers for 260925.

Water supplies

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:21:40 +0000

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Water tower and crane at the Apedale Valley Light Railway.

TPE at Irlam

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:15:56 +0000

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A Trans Pennine Express service to Liverpool waits to depart from Irlam Station. As well as an excellent cafe the site has a fine local railway museum.

Alston

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:31:36 +0000

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Signal box at Alston Station, the terminus of the South Tynedale Railway. This two foot gauge line is built on the track bed of the southern section of the former Alston Line, a standard gauge branch line between Haltwhistle and Alston which was closed by British Rail in May 1976.

Steel

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 06:25:46 +0000

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66 144 arrives at Boston Station with the empty steel hoods from Wolverhampton Steel Terminal. This train collects steel coil from Boston Docks as required. It will then back down into the docks branch having blocked the main road crossing for some time.

Breakfast arrives

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:16:26 +0000

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67 010 arrives at Shrewsbury from Holyhead and will continue to Cardiff. I was looking forward to my cooked breakfast in the restaurant car as we travelled through the Marches, and wasn't disappointed.

HFF Great Central Railway Loughborough Leicestershire 5th April 2025

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:21:03 +0000

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British Railways Standard 2 2-6-0 78018 is in the Down Loop at Loughborough waiting with a mixed goods train for a path to Rothley.

HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

Kriegslok in the snow

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 12:03:04 +0000

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Kriegslok 33-064 is bringing the loaded wagons to the Lukuvac exchange sidings along the line from the coal mine at Sikulje.

Great Central Railway Rothley Leicestershire 23th February 2013

nobody@ipernity.com (Loose_Grip/Pete) — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:34:36 +0000

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Another footplate shot from BR Blue-liveried Great Western Railway King 4-6-0 6023 King Edward II. We are stationary at Rothley Up platform signal waiting for the Class 37-hauled train to clear the section from Leicester North before proceeding.