Signals Collection (page 5)

Russian Soldier Using Semaphore
A lone Russian soldier atop a hill using Semaphore flags to communicate to other sections of the Russian forces in the 1904/5 Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1905

Steam engine in a station

View of trains leaving London Bridge Station
View of trains leaving Platforms 9 and 10 of London Bridge Station, with passenger carriages on the left, and cargo trucks on the right. Date: 20th century

Trainee Traffic Police
A group of British traffic policeman learning hand signals in a training yard. Date: early 1930s

Wood Green and Alexandra Park Station, London
A marvellous postcard looking down on Wood Green and Alexandra Park Station, London (now called Alexandra Palace Railway Station). Date: circa 1905

Three boys on a desert island attract a passing ship using their robes and spears as signal flags. Date: 1898

Palace entertainers - Hue, Vietnam
Palace entertainers and dancers in demonic costume at Hue, the capital city of Thua ThienHue Province of Vietnam. Date: 1907

International system of flag signalling - German postcard, including a section of storm signals (lower section). Date: circa 1910s

Black Gate and Castle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The Main East Coast Mainline railway line runs straight through the former Castle grounds! Date: circa 1910s

On my signal - Painting by Andrew McGeachy
On my signal - an early monoplane awaiting taxi and takeoff. The ground crew awaiting the final signal from the pilot. Date: circa 1910

Maritime signals. Plate of the of the Encyclopedia
" Maritime signals. Plate of the of the Encyclopedia, " Dictionnaire Raisonn頤 es Sciences des Arts et M鴩 ers" or " Encyclopedie"

Setting the signals. Illustration shows Uncle Sam raising a red signal flag labeled Big Crops and Prosperity and a yellow signal flag labeled Business and Confidence over the US Capitol building

London Sea Scouts in semaphore display
London Sea Scouts in a semaphore signalling display at Hyde Park. They are signalling the letter C, meaning Ready. 1947

Sea Ranger Girls, 1939
Sea Ranger girls, part of the River Emergency Service during World War Two, seen putting their flag waving signals into action. Date: 1939

The Wreck of the Titanic - page from the Sphere
Page from the Sphere which reported in great detail on the sinking of the Titanic. Top part of the page shows the wireless telegraph message with the SOS and CQD signals

Sea Scouts receiving signals by flag. October 1935

Sea Scouts signal lamp training
Sea Scouts undergoing signal lamp training. circa 1944

Australian Signals laying telephone cable, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying telephone cable near Eaucourt l Abbaye, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 1917

German Navy Signal Room
The interior of a German Navy Signal Room. Date: 1940s

Australian Signals laying cable near Albert, France, WW1
Australian Signals laying cable in a muddy area near Albert, northern France, during the First World War. Date: 21 September 1917

Army Signal Service wireless station, Western Front, WW1
An Army Signal Service wireless station on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

British Signal Corps laying subterranean cable, WW1
Men of the British Signal Corps laying a subterranean cable during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Soldier in trench with signals rockets, WW1
A soldier in a trench with rockets used for signalling during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

C. Q. D. signals that meant safety on the Republic
C.Q.D. signals that meant safety to two thousand souls: the means by which the sinking liner Republic sent three hundred miles for immediate help

Three soldiers using lamp for signalling, France, WW1
Three soldiers of a Pioneer Battalion using a daylight lamp for signalling at the side of a railway track near Feuchy, Arras, northern France, during the First World War. Date: May 1917

Two soldiers using heliograph for signalling, France, WW1
Two soldiers using a heliograph for visual signalling near Feuchy, during the Battle of Arras in northern France, during the First World War. Date: April 1917

Signal exchange beneath Fricourt Chateau, France, WW1
Royal Engineers at work in a signal exchange in a captured German dugout beneath Fricourt Chateau, Somme, northern France, during the First World War. Date: September 1916

Artillery Observation Officer sets lamp, Kemmel Ridge, WW1
An Artillery Observation Officer setting his lamp to signal back to his Battery the results of firing, around the time of the Battles of Kemmel Ridge (Kemmelburg, Lys, Flanders)

Army Signal Service, Western Front, WW1
Men of the Army Signal Service at work on the Western Front during the First World War. Showing a section of the Third Army Signal Office, with Captain Bulman OBE in the background. Date: 1914-1918

Two soldiers using a signalling shutter, WW1
Two soldiers using a signalling shutter during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Signalman Bayliss stands by his levers in the signal box at Haverstock Hill, London. Date: 1909

Overland - Telegraph
The old pre-electric telegraph signals the abstract of the Indian Mail from Marseille to Paris, or vice versa. Date: 1844

Traffic Police
A policeman uses hand signals to stop the 273 bus to Roehampton, London. Date: 1930

Dingle Tic-Tac Man
A tic-tac man at Dingle racecourse, County Kerry, Ireland, signals the odds. Date: 1962

Two Post Office workers waiting for the mail train at a lineside mailbag collection and drop-off point. In the background are railway lines, signals, and a goods train

Policewoman on traffic duty
A policewoman on traffic duty on a busy day in London

Cardonnel Junction, near Neath, South Wales
View of the track at Cardonnel Junction, near Neath, on the Great Western Railway, South Wales

Crewe Railway Station electric signal box, Cheshire
View inside an electric signal box near Crewe Railway Station, Crewe, Cheshire

Training Ship Exmouth, flag signalling drill
Uniformed boys on the deck of the Training Ship Exmouth learning flag signalling. The Exmouth, moored off Grays in Essex, was used by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a naval training establishment

Police Notice -- Street Crossing Signals
A Police Notice showing Street Crossing Signals in Bridge Street, New Palace Yard, London, close to Parliament and the Met Police headquarters

Teaching hand signaling / W H Robinson
Teaching the meaning of hand signals made by the car in front. Please note: Credit must appear as (c) Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/Mary Evans Picture Library

Marconi plaque, Bass Point, Cornwall
A plaque to Guglielmo Marconi, set in a granite wall near some buildings on the sea shore at Bass Point, Cornwall. It marks the location of Marconis telegraph station during the pioneering days of

West Country engine at Brighton Station, Sussex
The West Country engine at Brighton Station in Sussex, in the days of steam

Railway junction in the morning mist
A superb atmospheric photograph looking across a complicated railway junction. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

Railway junction in the morning mist (alternate version)
A superb atmospheric photograph looking across a complicated railway junction. From the collection of a Scottish rail accident investigator

The Steam Train Deepdene at Dundee on 22nd June, 1949

German soldiers 1932
The regimental signals platoon with their messenger dog during German military manouevres in 1932 Date: 1932

A Trainee Signalman
A trainee signalman operates the junctions on a model railway as part of his training. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

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