The beauty of semaphore signals - preserved and still in use

[editor]

Oh my oh my. How much did I enjoy waiting for my train at Worcester Shrub Hill Station?

What a beauty!







And at nearby Foregate St:

In photos: Victorian semaphore signals still in use at Worcester Shrub Hill railway station -

Fans of Victorian-era mechanical signalling are in for a real feast at Worcester Shrub Hill railway station, where all movements at the station are still controlled by a signalman/woman pulling levers in the nearby signal box. One of two stations serving Worcester, the first station at Shrub...

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Of course in the UK it's not called semaphore, it's Year 11

 

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It's nice to see them but they do look rather left-behind. It's a far cry from the halcyon days of massive gantries of them e.g. Rugby:

 

[editor]

It's nice to see them but they do look rather left-behind. It's a far cry from the halcyon days of massive gantries of them e.g. Rugby:

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Massive gantries like that were hardly the norm on most lines though, although it has an interesting story

This was the nickname for the massive gantry erected south of Rugby station, controlling approaching Down trains. Early in the 20th century, the Great Central Railway was building its line to London. The new line crossed the L&NWR just south of Rugby station on a bridge comprising a series of steel trusses. Because the L&NWR established its route first, the Great Central had to pay for any changes the L&NWR had to put in place. Certainly, the massive new bridge would badly affect the sighting of L&NWR signals approaching Rugby on the down. Since the L&NWR wasn't paying, it designed a fairly lavish replacement signal gantry which achieved fame as 'The Bedstead', featuring arms carried high above the Great Central's bridge, with co-acting arms at a lower level.

L&NWR Signalling and the 'Bedstead'

I've always had an affection for the London & North Western Railway. Francis William Webb not only provided them with their motive power for...

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I think it's brilliant that so much of Worcester's mechanical signalling has survived intact and happily there are a few other examples:

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