{"id":9358,"date":"2012-08-15T15:24:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=9358"},"modified":"2012-08-15T15:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T14:24:18","slug":"hastings-railway-station-rattles-to-steam-age-semaphore-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hastings-railway-station-rattles-to-steam-age-semaphore-signals\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings railway station rattles to steam-age semaphore signals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know this is one of my ‘niche interest’ posts here (sorry!) but I do love arriving at a\u00a0modern\u00a0station and discovering that it’s still using railway\u00a0technology that’s well over a hundred years old.<\/p>\n

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Despite serving a sizeable\u00a0town on a main line in the densely populated south of England, Hastings station has managed to retain its old Southern Railway signals.<\/p>\n

The semaphore signals control the eastern end of station operations and are operated by a brick built signal box dating from 1931.<\/p>\n

\"Photos<\/p>\n

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always liked\u00a0knowing\u00a0that a train was on its way after hearing the \u00a0mechanical\u00a0‘clunk’ of a semaphore\u00a0signal, but it’s a scene that’s fast disappearing from Britain’s public railways.<\/p>\n

So if you find yourself at a station that is still using a signalling system that dates back to the steam age, be sure to soak it all in!<\/p>\n

Read more: Semaphore signals at Hastings station (photo feature
\n<\/a>[Semaphore signals – Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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