Semaphore Railway Signal
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Semaphore Railway Signal by Hywel Williams as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Semaphore Railway Signal
Image: © Hywel Williams Taken: 26 Nov 2006
A semaphore railway signal at Pantyffynnon railway station, part of the Heart Of Wales railways. Semaphore signals are rapidly becoming a rare sight on UK railways, with the electric light signals, which need less maintenance replacing them. A weighted counterbalance can be seen just below the signal itself. This is designed to default to the "stop" signal should the cable controlling the signal break.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
51.777953
Longitude
-3.998838