I finally had a chance to get out and take some pretty pictures of the signal. So here they are… In the past I have used torsion bars to operate bracket semaphores, but this time around I used cranks. Both are prototypical, but cranks are harder to model. The shunt discs operate in exactly…
I recently had cause to reflect on the ultimate questions, and got little further than ’42’, or Leonard Cohen’s ‘do dah dum…’. The root of this reflection was a decision to quit my long-standing remunerative employment for a ‘sabbatical’ of uncertain duration. Essentially I was jaded and in need of a change. Ironically, in the…
Based on drawing S210 (28-2-1901). Semaphore posts must have been a costly item, and thus for any location the shortest post consistent with appropriate visibility would have been used. Posts were square in section and tapered to 7″x7″ at the top to fit the finial. In reality the post top was rebated so that the…
