Signal Collection (page 2)

Lehigh Valley Railroad Station, Shenandoah, PA, USA
Lehigh Valley Railroad Station, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA, with people waiting on the platform. Date: circa 1907

Boeing RC-135U-BN Combat Sent 3 63-9792
United States Air Force - Boeing RC-135U-BN Combat Sent 3 63-9792 (msn 18706). Built as an RC-135B specification from the outset and later modified by Martin as an RC-135C

Fighting Cocks railway station, Stockton-Darlington line
Fighting Cocks railway station, on the Stockton to Darlington line. It opened in 1825, named after the local pub where train tickets were sold

Nelson turns a blind eye - Battle of Copenhagen
Admiral Lord Nelson ignoring the signal from Sir Hyde Parker to stop fighting. He is looking though his telescope with his blind eye (popularising the phrase to turn a blind eye )

Bala Lake Railway guard Bob Davies operates the signal box. In 1988, Mr Davies had worked on the railway for 48 years Date: 1988

The 180 lever railway signal box at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Date: 1991

Father Christmas distributing gifts - children rail station
Father Christmas distributing gifts - children on a railway station. Date: 1902

Nottingham - London Road Railway Station and the Nottingham Canal in 1903

Forest Road Signal Box, Leicester, in 1903

Leicester - Forest Road Signal Box in 1903

Southern Railway Victoria Central control room - possibly 1940s

Southern Railway Central Control Room, Victoria, London, possibly 1950s

A Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway signal box - Victorian period

Cosham near Portsmouth early 1900s

Mid-19th cetury brass signal cannon
MILITARIA: a mid-19th century brass signal cannon, with cylindrical barrel on a shaped truckle base, inscribed PEACE 1856 TRUST IN PROVIDENCE AND KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY with two large spoked front

Padiham West Signal Box on Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Padiham West Signal Box on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Victorian period

Signal box, Edge Hill, Liverpool, early 1900s

Railway signal box at Colwich, Staffordshire, early 1900s

Signal box, early 1900s

Foulridge Railway Station and Signal Box early 1900s

Newark Midland Railway Station early 1900s

Padiham West Signal Box Victorian period

Padham West railway signal box

Steam train and signal box at Padiham

Level crossing at Petersfield Railway Station

Lord Frederick Leathers
A portrait photograph of Lord Frederick James Leathers, sat in a London signal box. Date: circa 1944

Gunbai and Horagai - Japan
Two Horagai, traditional Japanese conch shell trumpets flanked by three gunbai (gunbai-uchiwa) once held by military leaders (such as daimyo) and priests in the past

Advert, Hudson's Extract of Soap, railway signalman shining a beam of light Date: 1888

RMS Titanic - shipping chart of North Atlantic for the month of April 1912, Sheet 133, Meteorological Office, London. The chart is in colour and displays wind, sea current, sea temperature

Fleet Air Arm plane practising deck landing, WW2
A Fleet Air Arm Plane practising deck landing on a special runway Date: circa 1941

London Underground Railway Signal Box Date: 1909

SECR Steam Locomotive 4-4-0 No. 470
SECR (South Eastern and Chatham Railway) Steam Locomotive 4-4-0 No. 470 passing Shakespeare's Cliff, Dover, with a down train

Toys from Tins by The Nursery School Association
Toys from Tins, leaflet 2, by The Nursery School Association

Telephoning Australia by Short-Wave Wireless 1924
Diagram showing the possibility of extensive new development in long-distance communication using short-wave wireless telephone to Australia. Date: 1924

Photograph showing the signalman in the act of pulling a signal lever to allow a train to enter one of the platforms. Date: 1907

Tamper with a Railway Signal by William Heath Robinson
Sixth column strategy, frustrating a dastardly attempt by the fifth a tamper with railway signal. Date: 1940

LMS Princess Coronation Class No. 46257 ?City of Salford? hauling the Mid-day Scot, passing the Shap Summit signal box by Alan Anderson

Nelson and the Signal, Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801 - the famous incident when Nelson held the telescope up to his blind eye in order to ignore a signal to retreat. Date: 1801

Horn Blower, New Court, the Temple, London Date: 1921

Switzerland - Alpenhorn (Alphorn) - a very long valveless wooden wind instrument played like a horn - used for signalling in the Alps. Date: circa 1910s

Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway - Interior of the Signal cabin. Now the Piccadilly Line on the London Underground network. Date: circa 1906

Mazatlan, Mexico, Signal Hill
Vintage 19th century photograph: Mazatlan, Mexico, Signal Hill

Telegraph signal station, Gibraltar
Vintage 19th century photograph: telegraph signal station, Gibraltar

The Gainsborough LNER Class A3 steam locomotive 1932
LNER Class A3 locomotive "Gainsborough" operating on the East Coast Mainline between London Kings Cross and York in 1932

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - England expects
The Caption reads - England Expects presumably evoking the Nelsonian flag signal to his fleet. It was everymans war. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1941

Steam Engine
Image from an alphabet book. A steam engine passing a signal box. Artist: Richard James Williams Date: 1919

Indicator Board - Victoria Station - London
A gigantic indicator board at Victoria Railway Station, London, 1908 Date: 1908

Signal Station - Hungerford Bridge - Charing Cross 1864
The Signal Station on the North end of Hungerford Bridge over the River Thames, leading into Charing Cross Station, London. Date: 1864

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