In my Tracking the Light post from 23 March 2016, Unusual Semaphore in an Unexpected Place, I displayed photos of an unusual three-position semaphore in The Full Shilling pub in Finglas, Dublin.
This had puzzled me since it appears to be a mirror image of a once-standard American style of semaphore blade, and is a rather incongruous decoration to find in a suburban Dublin pub.
I’ve had a lot of traffic on this subject.
It was most certainly not a signal employed on an Irish railway.
While the full story has yet to be unraveled, the signal blade appears to be of a type used on railways in New South Wales Australia.
See; http://vrhistory.com/walks/Gunning/Gunning.htm
The other day, I returned to The Full Shilling for another inspection of the signal and a few more photographs (etc).
Special thanks to everyone who made suggestions and provided information and links, including: Donncha Cronin, Ken Fox, and Michael Walsh. See the following link for discussion of my original posting: http://forum.signalbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7525
If you are interested, here is another shot of the three position semaphores in action
https://flic.kr/p/G3bUtG
This and all its members are my source, http://www.irfca.org/faq/
By the way, your Alcos (refurbished and modernized) and the swanky new EMDs work (on a variety of named passenger trains as well as freight), if it makes you happy 🙂
Ha! Eureka moment is it?
Thats nice, yes that would be logical, some of the former British colonies did follow a mixture of British and NA signaling practices.
Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, the three position semaphore was also tried out in India where we had the same type and of the same color. Here is a link to the same https://flic.kr/p/FYBX9a
There are many more of such examples in our museums. It is quite possible that the British Empire used the same for Australia as well as India