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With the gradual removal of the remaining semaphore signalling across the UK are there any services left that run entirely under semaphore signalling?
 
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If fixed distant boards are permitted, St Erth to St Ives (not the reverse direction as the signal at the end of the single line at St Erth is a colour light) and Par to Newquay (again not the reverse direction as the St Blazey distant and home signals in that direction are colour lights) would count.
 
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ScottGallagher said:
Cumbrian Coast is mostly if not all semaphore
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Carlisle 'box extends to Wigton with colour light signals. I haven't been south of Workington for quite sometime but there was the odd colour light signal around Maryport, and on as far as Flimby at the former coal loading point.
 
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Railwaysceptic said:
No; lots of colour light signals. There's a recent thread about this.
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And even if it was fully semaphore, the question was about services that run end to end under semaphore, and there’d be no such service, because it would come from or go to somewhere else...

Then does a move from a station to a siding count as a ‘service’ for this ?
 
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I can't think there will be many services that run entirely under semaphore, away from heritage lines (which aren't specifically excluded......I'll get a can for the worms...)

Momo and diggy said:
Hope valley route
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All services run between Manchester Piccadilly and New Mills and/or Sheffield and Dore ordinarily which are definitely not semaphore.
 
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Traveller54 said:
Ayr-Stranraer? I’ve only used it as far south as Girvan and can only remember seeing semaphore.
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All the distants from Kilkerran to Stranraer Harbour are colour light except the Down distant at Glenwhilly. And of course Ayr (inclusive) to Kilkerran (exclusive) as noted above.
 
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Is Buxton still semaphore? Great rocks to Buxton is or was a move in its own right from the sidings at Peak Dale on up to Hindlow...
 
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LOM said:
All the distants from Kilkerran to Stranraer Harbour are colour light except the Down distant at Glenwhilly. And of course Ayr (inclusive) to Kilkerran (exclusive) as noted above.
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and exept the distant for Stranraer Harbour, which is a fixed distant.
 
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LOM said:
All the distants from Kilkerran to Stranraer Harbour are colour light except the Down distant at Glenwhilly. And of course Ayr (inclusive) to Kilkerran (exclusive) as noted above.
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Glenwhilly's down distant is now the only semaphore distant on NR in Scotland,
 
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