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37191 waits at Tulloch as the driver on 37184 passes over the token for the stretch to Spean Bridge on 5th October 1983.
The token is exchanged with the driver of 37184, just arriving from Fort William on the 0840 to Glasgow Queen Street whilst 37191 waits for departure to Fort William with the 0550 from Glasgow. 37184 was taken to Dumbarton for a 303 to Glasgow. Can't think of any logical reason why I got off there except to save the walk from Queen Street to Central!
I then headed eastwards on a shove-set from Queen Street for some 27's on the Edinburgh - Dundee's and finally headed back to Liverpool on the 1805 ex Edinburgh which was hauled by 47703 (to Carstairs), 87011 (to Preston) and 47468 for the final part of the trip to Lime Street. This was the last day of a week long Scottish trip.
37191 was withdrawn in February 2001 after over 37 years service.
37184 was withdrawn in May 2000 and scrapped in September the following year.
Token of my mother's ashes taken to the Big Island. She passed away Sept 2023 just days shy of her 91st birthday. She loved living in and visiting Hawaii.
The crew exchange tokens with the signalman as Hunslet Austerity No. 2890 'Douglas' arrives into Groombridge Station with the 1115 service from Eridge.
Spa Valley Railway, Kent.
20 June 2021
The Golden Gate International Exposition (1939 and 1940), held at San Francisco, California's Treasure Island, was a World's Fair that celebrated, among other things, the city's two newly built bridges. The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge was dedicated in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge was dedicated in 1937. The exposition was opened initially from February 18, 1939 through October 29, 1939. It opened again from May 25, 1940 through September 29, 1940.
Halfpenny copper token
Ref: BOLMG: 1914.17.3
William Williamson, his halfpenny copper token, Newton, Manchester 1669.
Obverse [head]: HIS HALFPENNY 1669 in centre, surrounded by: William Williamson of.
Reverse: Two 'W's with flowers entwined between the letters in the centre: NEWTON ...R MANCHESTER.
Biography
This halfpenny copper token is dated 1669 and would have been used by traders in Manchester during the second half of the seventeenth century. It first came into the museum’s collection in 1914 as a purchase from S. H. Hamer of Halifax. The accession number is 1914.17 (part number .3) and the token entered the collection with five other 17th century trade tokens, all from Lancashire. The tokens were previously displayed in the Chadwick Museum, probably soon after 1914. It is unclear if they were displayed in our current museum on the Crescent recently, but you can now see this coin on display.
Some interesting facts…
Traders began minting their own coins in the 17th century as a result of a lack of small change being produced by the Royal Mint. From 1657 to 1752 many retailers, from grocers to city corporations made their own illegal money.
The coins often had local symbols and the name of the trader that produced them.
Tokens like this one only disappeared from circulation following properly constituted royal coinage in copper in 1792.
Find out more!
This token is now on display in the coin desktop found in the Europe Bay in the World Bays area of Bolton Museum.
Come and see other Lancashire tokens from Clitheroe and Blackburn alongside this one.
Do you have any information about 17th century tokens?
We would like to read any comments, especially if you know about local Lancashire tokens, or anything about Mr William Williamson of Newton, Manchester.
With the second man positioned to exchange single-line tokens, 50049 'Defiance' arrives at Highley with the 15:10 Kidderminster to Bridgnorth service on 4 October, 2024. Just look at that Autumn colour!
1Q06 the 09.42 Doncaster West Yard to Doncaster West Yard (via the light railway, Barton Upon Humber and Cleethorpes) has just surrendered the key token to the signaller at Pyewipe Road signal box and restarts it's journey around North East Lincolnshire.
Colas liveried 37219 also looking immaculate, leads whilst 37175 brings up the rear.
Running very slightly early the time is 11.58 on Monday 6th July 2015.
The Network Rail track recording train makes one of it's regular forays round the Grimsby & Immingham Light Railway.
I was on afters and it's schedule meant I could catch it close to home but couldn't chase it up the Barton branch as I might of otherwise hoped to do.
These test trains generally don't really float my boat but when there's a pair of 37's passing within 200 yards of your front door It'd be rude not to.
The train had run from Doncaster up to Barnetby and Brocklesby Junction before continuing on the Cleethorpes line as far as Marsh Junction where it took a left to send it round the light railway.
It covered the route up to Immingham East and then on to Immingham Reception and Humber Road Junction before reversing and heading back to Marsh Junction retracing it's steps over the light railway.
I loitered at Pyewipe Road in order to catch them twice before heading home and work.
With D1013 still being worked on, D1062 marooned at Kidderminster and D821 away from the Valley, it was left to D1015, still running with the railtour alternate identities of D1010 and D1058, to fly the hydraulic flag.
Western Champion passes the gallery at Highley with a train to Bridgnorth, secondman at the ready for the token exchange with the Bobby at Highley box, just behind me.
21 May 2016
I was in a mood to shoot small this morning, and when I was contemplating what to use as my subject du jour this was staring me in the face. My husband had given it to me, thinking that it was an old, leftover New York City Subway Token. Except that when I tried to look it up this morning, it didn't turn up in NYC token history. So I looked a little further, and established that the Metropolitan Transit Authority One Fare token was a pre-1964 token from Boston. We lived in Boston in the mid-80's, so this must have been leftover from that time. I guess they were the same size as the MBTA tokens that replaced them, and they must have remained in circulation until the time that Boston replaced tokens with Charlie Cards (like NYC's Metro Cards).
This is a re-shot of the subject, because I wan't happy with the detail in the earlier shot and wanted to try something different with it.
A Japanese arcade token. It is the size of a quarter and it is the same on both sides. It is made of metal but it is not magnetic.
A summer Saturday at Welshpool and the driver of Class 37/0 37251 has a quick chat with the duty signalman as the tokens are exchanged. The 2J17 07:53 Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth comprised a set of Inter-City liveried stock that would later return as the 1A50 servce to London Euston.
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YDM-4 6756 rolls into Nyoriya Husenpur where the token hoop is ready for the loco crew to take for the journey onward to Pilibhit Juntion. Train 52220 was the 12:40 from Tanakpur, the TPE-PBE Passenger.
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In railway signaling, a token is a physical object that a train driver must have or see before entering a specific section of track. The token is usually marked with the name of the section it belongs to
Pantyfynnon South Signal Box in Carmarthenshire, is a GWR box of GWS design that dates back to 1892 when it had 49 levers. It is a Grade II listed building and clearly has been looked after judging by its current condition. The box controls the entire length of the Heart of Wales line up to Craven Arms in Shropshire using a "No-Signalman Token Remote" signalling system developed in the 1980s to reduce running costs on lightly used single track railways in rural areas. It also allows single freight train access along the Amman Valley Branch. The line was reopened in 2009 for coal trains running to Gwaun Cae Gurwen open cast coal mine (East Pit) run by Celtic Energy. I am told the signal box will remain in service until 2020.
The driver of an Arriva Trains Wales single unit Sprinter, 153323, on the Swansea to Shrewsbury service, is seen collecting the token from the signalman for the onward journey to Craven Arms.
The scene at Daliganj Junction Station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh where the 11:40 Aishbargh to Izzatnager Junction Passenger 52244 was about to continue its journey north. The token had just been delivered by the bicycle rider who was about to turn and head off back to the control room. YDM-4 6552 would soon head off for Sitapur Junction and beyond.
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66094 arrives at Brentford with the 0449 Severnside Sita-Brentford. As 6A23 had come down the branch with the ticket this train had the staff. As it will depart before me we exchange tokens so the Southall service can leave with the ticket leaving the staff on 6Z18
One of a series of medals issued by Peter Kempson in 1797. It shows the New Meeting House after it had been re-built following the riots of 1791.
Accession number: 1939 N161
The driver of a passenger train is returning a token on the fly while passing through Sala Thammasop station West of Bangkok. Note the trackside device to catch the token.
250917, Token exchange at Lostwithiel,66206 gets the token for the branch as it heads the 6G08 16:29 Goonbarrow-Fowey
D1062 Western Courier arrives at Bewdley North and exchanges tokens from the signalman on 17-5-19
The service is the 10.30 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster on day 2 of the SVR Diesel Festival
This was the only day I could manage a few photos and was not the best weather wise.
"J D HANCNCK II FEB 24, 1970 SON"
When I was three years old my parents went to Chicago to visit one of my dad's air force buddies. My dad brought back this personalized token from a museum there. It was certainly not his first gift to me, but nevertheless I think of it as something I have "always" had.
The other side of the token reads, "Museum Science Industry."
The misspelling of our last name is amusing, given what a careful person my dad normally is.
This is one of many curious items collected in JD's House of Miscellany.
The Dean Forest Railway held their Diesel Gala during the weekend of 15 to 17 September 2017 and I was able to make a brief visit on the first day. The lure was to see and photograph the visiting Clayton Type 1, but I also have an affinity with Class 31s, and the EWS livery of 31466 looks quite striking. The 31 has slowed to hand the token over whilst working the 14.00 Lydney Junction to Parkend and has but a few yards to reach its destination.