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6M11 slows on approach to St. Bees station.
The signalman has braved the elements and crossed the footbridge to the "up" platform.
With his left arm raised he holds aloft the token for the single-line section to Sellafield.
The driver of No.66569 will exchange it for the one he obtained from the token cupboard on Bransty station.
On the "down" platform the "Harrington Hump" is evident.
This is a custom-built modular system devised to elevate now under-height platforms to train door level and is ramped to facilitate access for the disabled.
Its name derives from the fact that the initial installation of a hump was on the "up" platform at Harrington, 4 stations down the line from St. Bees.
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A friend has a collection of these pieces of jewelry. I had not heard of them but often they contained pictures of the loved ones and a symbol of their branch of the armed services. Interesting!
The 2H62 11:20 Wick [11:22 ex-Thurso] ScotRail service to Inverness is eased into the Up platform loop at Muir of Ord. The tokens were being exchanged that would enable 37417 'Highland Region' to continue its journey south with this Sunday service.
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These were issued in the 1930's to be used for sales tax amounts under 1 cent. Not something ever seen in 2024!
go back 50 pictures in my photostream to see the aluminum, parade throw version of this Mardi Gras token. These brass tokens were given out as party favors.
Her sister, Jane, picked these flowers for Cassandra on her morning walk as a token of love.
Blythe a Day - Token - 11/4/24
Blythe - Chloris Country Life in stock apron
Green dress made by me
Flowers - Mini Verse
Cat - Schleich
Door - made by me
Chair - doll show
Walls - scrapbook paper
An image captured in the late afternoon at Doiwala, Uttarakhand, India in February 2012. Indian Railways WDM-2A Alco 16856 eases the SO 15:35 Dehradun to Muzaffarpur Junction Train 5002 towards the station.
The locomotive crew were in the process of collecting [right] and dropping [left] the respective section tokens while a member of the station staff waits on the ballast next to the passing loop to pick up the surrendered token.
According to the IRFCA Locomotive data base, this Gonda [GD] allocated Alco unit was rebuilt at DLMW, Patiala in 2016 and re-classified as WDM-3A. It was listed as still in service in early 2022 having been transferred to Izzatnagar [IZN] shed.
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"By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer."
Helen Hunt Jackson
A recently completed scheme at the junction of the Buckingham Road and the Upper Shoreham Road. The main element is a much needed extra pedestrian crossing on the USR, which will be well used by kids and parents heading to and from the local schools. There's also this short strip of bike lane. I will use it most days, but on its own it has minimal impact. It does put-off parents on the school run from parking on the yellow/double yellow lines that were here, partially blocking the junction. A proper cycle lane along the USR would be good, but the well has been poisoned by the awful temporary one that got put in and taken out over the pandemic.
The driver of 26032 takes the single-line token from the signalman at Dingwall on 6th June 1983. The train is 2K02 06:55 Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh.
Olympus OM10 f/11 125th/sec Ektachrome 200
Something of a rarity is the sight of a token exchange involving a High Speed Train, but on each summer Saturday this occurs on four occasions at Whitland, Carmarthenshire.
This example features 1L90, the 14.55 (SO) Pembroke Dock to Paddington, on 23 June 2018, the train had just come off the Pembroke Dock branch behind the photographer, the driver giving-up the token to the signalman before the working continues its journey to the capital.
Seen to the right of the image is part of Whitland Signal Box, it was installed here in 1972 having earlier performed the same function at Danygraig (Swansea).
First Great Westerns 180 105 leaves the Cotswold Line at Norton Junction while working the 11:52 London Paddington to Hereford service. The signalman is receiving the token via a pouch held up to the cab window using a pole.
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An opportunity was almost missed on Wednesday due to a non updated T.O.P.S list.
At 7.30am 37401 & 37409 were showing "Under Genius Control" as they were the previous day.
I was at my father-in-law's during the morning and there's no mobile phone reception at his gaff and so it wasn't until lunchtime that I discovered, through gen' sites, that 37402 had replaced 409 on the first southbound out of Carlisle that morning.
This meant that for the first time since inception both Cumbrian coast loco-hauled diagrams were sporting a large logo Tractor.
A plan was immediately formulated to attempt a shot of the two passing at St. Bees.
The 14.37 BIF - CAR was first to arrive and here the driver of its loco, 37402, is seen handing the token for the Sellafield single line section to the St. Bees signalwoman.
On Sunday I had the pleasure of shooting at my first Flickr friend's wedding. It was supposed to rain, but we were blessed with partly cloudy conditions for the outdoor service.
Congrats again Jeff and Meghan!
37037 exchanges tokens with the signalman at Arrochar & Tarbet on 2nd August 1982.
The train was the 1634 Glasgow Queen Street to Mallaig which was taken to Rannoch for 37014 back to Glasgow.
I saw a few of these token exchanges on the WHL and they were carried out at some speed! The rules of course now instruct drivers to stop and obtain the token. Tokens became a thing of the past in March 1988 when the new signalling centre at Banavie took control with radio signalling.
The loco was renumbered to 37321 in 1986 and then again back to its original number 37037 in 1989.
It spent a year in France from 1999-2000 and was stored at Wigan upon its return before being purchased for preservation in 2004.
With the token ready for pick-up, Hunslett Austerity 0-6-0ST 'Sapper' departs from Ramsbottom with the 1535 bound for Rawtenstall on 19 May 2013.
Token got a new face-up! :D
He looks even more girly now... But isn't he pretty??? I especially love the eyes! °3°
Also, he finally got a decent wig in the right colour and eyes that don't gap like hell! Now, after a whole year (this month was his "bday"), he's finally complete! Weee~ \^0^/
Face-up is by the wonderful Smaug on DoA.
92212 Receiving the token at Ropley on the Watercress line.
In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a locomotive driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single track. The token is clearly endorsed with the name of the section it belongs to. A token system is used for single lines because of the very much greater risk of serious collision in the event of irregular working by signalmen or traincrews, than on double lines.
Visiting Harry Needle Railroad Company Ltd and DRS English Electric Type One Class 20s 20096 and 20901 diesel-electric locomotives roll down the bank at Keighley station with a Oxenhope to Keighley passenger service during the 2003 diesel gala weekend on the preserved Keighley & Worth Valley heritage railway line.
Or so it seems. I watched a pair of BC Nigh Herons perched in one of the trees on the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary grounds - he kept offering the stick to the female, who kept turning her back on him. I think she wanted a better stick, perhaps. There are probably 20 pairs of wild BCNH nesting on the sanctuary grounds right now.
7.8.2025.
The signalman and footplate crew prepare to exchange tokens as Raven NER 'Q6' 0-8-0 No 63395 drifts into Goathland with a passenger service for Grosmont.
NYMR.
GWR 4-6-0 7802 Bradley Manor runs into Highley station on the Severn Valley Railway on Sunday 6-10-02.
The working is the 14.15 Kidderminster to Bridgnorth service.
Can anyone identify the people in the photograph.
This may not be everyone's cup of tea I could have enhanced the sharpness but wanted to portray the feeling of movement.
My Black and White collection has recently come back to me after being absent for over 20 years. 'A long story'! I will probably bore you with many more of these in the future.
A scan from a Mamiya 645 Medium Format camera. Ilford HP5 Plus B/W Film
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Remember the iconic scene of Eddie Murphy cruising down Rodeo Drive in "Beverly Hills Cop?" Well, here is my Hawaii perspective of that famous scene. Enjoy!
The Gotherington signalman is offering the token for the Gotherington-Cheltenham section, while preparing to accept the Winchcombe-Gotherington one from the crew of BR 'Standard Class 2' (visiting from the Great Central Railway and blowing off excess steam).
Photographed from a Cheltenham-Broadway train standing in Gotherington Loop.
156464 slows to a stand at Midge Hall on 4th October 2022 with 2F47 1326 Preston to Ormskirk. The driver will collect the token as authority to proceed to Rufford where it will be surrendered to the signaller there and the train will continue to Ormskirk on the single line under One Train Working rules, again with another token.
It would be very unusual if a driver stopped or even slightly slowed for a token exchange in the days when I was at Rufford, and the act of giving and receiving the tokens for the two single lines was done at some speed!
This was something I saw taken to the extremes when travelling behind 37s on the West Highland Line in the early eighties, when some of the token handovers made our West Lancashire ones look positively pedestrian....
The driver of Eastfield's Class 37/0, 37013 prepares to surrender the token at Dunragit box as his train, the 1S40 05:13 parcels from London Euston nears its destination at Stranraer.
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