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Something for the weekend - Part 154 - Outside the box

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January 21, 2022
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Thanks to those who took part on our previous "notes" challenge.

I snapped this railway signal box a couple of years ago when it was still in use. Now though it is disused and the crossing is automatic. So can you put the signal box to a new use?

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JR Boulay

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Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

davescm

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I like that idea JR. Replace the railway with a canal - a much more pleasant pace of life 🙂

Dave

Ged_Traynor

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Little late to the party, I just added it to my Blender rendered kitchen because it looks nice on the wall 😉

Ussnorway7605025

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i like the image but the diagonal stripe of light across the blue cupboard looks out of sync?

Ged_Traynor

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The light source is from a hdri image and the reflection of light is coming from the window

@davescm can you confirm if the lighting is correct or did I do something wrong

Jacob Bugge

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Click/RightClick to get closer (and Click to get closer still), or Click Here to see in Chrome

The urgent upgrade, requiring some additions (5 of them visible outside from the south and the east) and reuse of items from SFTW58 and SFTW81, has been seriously delayed by various complications, sorry.

Luckily, the impending demolition about a year ago was delayed by birds nesting, much to the relief at the Norton Tavern just across the Calf Fallow Lane where they can keep the sign (almost unchanged),

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.5982237,-1.320433,3a,60y,180h,89.25t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sWqr2QK0DP68n9q1_hcGvug!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

54.5983, -1.3205 / 54°35'54"N, 1°19'13"W (Street view available, as the one above)

https://abcrailwayguide.uk/norton-on-tees-public-level-crossing-stockton-on-tees

Here is a video from the days of its being operated by hand, also featuring the 11.45 from Hexham to Nunthorpe,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ImvKpUpH6Q

Ussnorway7605025

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I love the idea of workers standing around waiting for birds to lay an egg before they can knock the place down 😉

p.s, in Australia that train driver would be fined for not blowing the horn

War Unicorn

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"It's All Really Just An Abstraction"

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Does anyone else see the face in it ?

Dave

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DeanUtian

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I can see an eye in the top right? Is that part of teh face you see Dave?

jane-e

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@davescm said: "Outside the box"

You would be running frantically across the roof, too, if you were a month late, couldn't find the chimney, and your reindeer were demanding their 15 minute break! He knows there's a way in because he remembers being inside the box three years ago.