Jan Ford's World

This sign (in a factory washroom) neatly reminds workers to take responsibility for their own safety. Or, at least, it would if somebody ...

The Museum of Liverpool. I'm still not a fan of the building's architecture (it's sometimes called "the dented shoebox...

Wolverhampton is the home of an award-winning butcher's shop, Michael Kirk , which was founded in 1934. There are usually a couple o...

On 11th and 12th April 2013, I re-visited some of the lines around Clapham Junction, London, which has the distinction of being "Brit...

Brought up in the Midlands in the early days of the post-war Nationalised railway, the former Southern Railway was very much a 'foreig...

At night, the arm of a semaphore signal becomes invisible so the signal aspect is given by a signal lamp (usually paraffin) in front of wh...

I was brought up in the West Midlands in the early days of the post-war Nationalised railway so, although I was familiar with both the for...

'Slotting' is a technique employed in semaphore signalling which gives two signal boxes control over one signal arm and was common...

Part 1 described the evolution of fixed signals. After a long period of development, the 'modern' form of 2-aspect semaphore signa...