Semaphore signal bracket, Minehead station
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Semaphore signal bracket, Minehead station
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 21 Mar 2010
A semaphore signal bracket, near the southeast end of the station, controls departures. The locomotive waiting to depart is 6024 King Edward I. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1871392 I am grateful to a correspondent who corrected my original description of the bracket as a gantry. The distinction is that a gantry is a structure spanning one or more tracks and supported by at least two posts, whereas a bracket is the word used where, as here, two or more separate signal masts are mounted above a single ground-level post.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.204901
Longitude
-3.46716