Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: signals

A foggy winter's day as British Railways Standard 5 4-6-0 73156 heads south. 8F 2-8-0 48305 on a Wedding Charter is held at the Down Inner Home and Rob the driver gives us a wave as he walks to the SPT to contact the signalman.

Sunset over Swithland. The signalman has gone home & the box is switched out so it's clear signals all the way as we head back to Loughborough on BR Standard 5 73156 with the "Fish & Chip Special".

The former Leicester Central station Up Home gantry towers over Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45305 as it drops back into platform 1 at Loughborough prior to taking out the 12.50 train to Leicester North. HFF & have a great weekend!

The Down Section signal is showing a green and Ivatt 2MT 2-6-0 46521 heads off up the hill with 6 on for 216 tons. I'm not sure what the problem was but the service was running 23 minutes down and the train stood in the station for a good part of that time.

The GCR's latest engine out of the works, British Railways Standard 5 4-6-0 73156, stands behind the Down Loop Starter. We were waiting for the stock of our 3rd train of the day to arrive in platform 1 and I was on my way to the porter’s room to make a mash of tea.

It was 7am with the dawn breaking and Freightliner Class 66/6 diesel 66615 had slowly run along Leicester station's platform 2. As I caught up with the engine it was signalled into the Humberstone Road loop beyond the station & rapidly pulled away northwards.

A diesel multiple unit heads into Toddington station on the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Steam Railway past a forest of lower quadrant semaphore signals. The Cotswold Edge forms the backdrop which looks positively mountainous due to the telphoto effect.

View north from Leicester station. Peak class diesels 45159 & 45114 slowly draw a train towards the station although the signals seem to be against them. In fact that's the signalman hurrying back to his box to clear the Inner Home. Meanwhile a dmu is heading northwards under clear signals on the Down Main. 45159 had failed within sight of the station & fortunately 45114 was on hand in the station & was dispatched to retrieve it. The whole episode only took half an hour or so. I wonder how long it would take today if a Midland Mainline train failed here? There are only very few locomotives around, if any, & those would be EWS or Freightliner owned so difficulties with insurance, liabilities, etc would make it a long drawn out procedure I'm sure. Until the 1980s Leicester Midland before modernisation was an interesting place with a definite steam-age atmosphere. Leicester North's Midland Railway signal box, a forest of semaphore signals, the loco stabling point behind the box and, off shot to the left, the LNWR & MR Goods yards all added their bit. Interestingly, the loading gauge post on the extreme left has lost its hanging gauge hoop which could still be seen on a 1975 photo I posted elsewhere. A clear indication of the further loss of freight business in the intervening two years.

Quorn and Woodhouse station & full semaphore signalling seen from the footplate of D1705 Brush Type 4 diesel approaching the station from the south. The Starter is pulled off for LMS Black 5 45305 waiting in the Up platform with a train to Leicester. This station has been restored to LNER condition and is the typical design of the Great Central Railway's main line to London with one island platform and access down from the road overbridge. The signal box, Up goods yard to the right & Down lay-by to the left were also typical. www.gcrailway.co.uk/ Their web page is well worth a visit.

Wrawby Junction signalling and signal box.