Deutsche Version dieses Postings
This and a few following postings have recent photos in them—taken in July 2020! ... maybe more interesting for some of you than my historical ones.
In the first day of July, I finally paid visits to a few Bavarian stations in my vicinity which are still fully equipped with semaphores. At some places, I only took photos of the signals, at others, I was allowed a peek, and some photos, in the signal box. I will not add too much text in these postings, rather, just show the pictures.
My first stop was at Bad Reichenhall, at the single-track line from Freilassing to Berchtesgaden in southernmost Bavaria.
In earlier times, there were four signalled tracks here, but the second one has been removed. Here are the starting signals on the south end, towards Berchtesgaden:
At the foot of the signals, one can see the typical Bavarian combined drives for a stop signal as well as the shunting signal before it. Up to the 1920s, the Bavarian Railways used special signals with an dropping arm for "shunting allowed". When these were replaced with standard German signals in the 1930s and 1940s, it seems that the width of the wire-line ducts could not be easily extended, so these combined drives were used at many places. I'll show levers for such a drive in a later posting about Berchtesgaden.
Here are a few more details:
All the starting signals have electrical signal arm clutches, as is required for lines with line blocking:
Here are the starting signals at the opposite, northern end. In front of P4 and P3, there are shunting signals, but starting signal P1 in the background does not have one:
These signals have separate electrical drives. The signal arm clutch is integrated in their housing:
Far outside ths station, we can see here distant signal Vf, which can only show Vr0 (stop expected) and Vr2 (slow expected):
Instead of lamps, this modernized disc signal has LEDs for the night indications, whose power supply is supported by solar cells:
Here is a short video of the signal changing aspects right before a train:
And here is a last picture of the track near the distant signal:
No comments:
Post a Comment