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Old tokens from the "T" in Boston, Massachusetts. The token on the bottom is newer and features a capital T on the other side. The token system has been replaced by the electronic "Charlie card" system these days.
BR standard 4MT departing Swanage yesterday. The driver is collecting the line token from the signal man
A 1793 British Conder Token from the city of York in Yorkshire. The coin was locally minted in 1793 as replacement currency during a shortage of small copper coins minted by the government. It features York Minster on the front and Clifford's Tower on the back.
St Andrew, Ilketshall St Andrew, Suffolk
St Andrew is one of the Saints, a group of twelve remote, scattered and traditionally lawless parishes not far from the Norfolk border. There is a sense in which St Andrew is in the Saints, but not of them: it looks away from the others to north and east for the other parishes in its shared benefice. There is no real village here, but that is par for the course with the Saints of course: only three of them have a proper village in their parish. St Andrew has more houses than most, but they are scattered around commons, separated by winding hedged lanes. All in all, the parish is rambling and incoherent, and somewhat difficult to grasp.
This grand round-towered church sits at a bend in the road with the former rectory for company. As is common in this part of East Anglia, the tower has an octagonal bell stage, and although some round towers were built from scratch in the 13th and 14th centuries, it is likely that this top was built onto a Norman tower, probably contemporarily with the body of the nave, which despite the acquisition of later Perpendicular windows is essentially a long Norman church. The chancel was probably added at the time the tower was topped off. A good modern statue of St Andrew gazes out from the niche on the porch, which was built right on the eve of the Anglican Reformation. The graveyard he looks out on is a delight: there has been almost no clearance of the older gravestones, and it must be a genealogist's dream.
In December 2001, workmen undertaking a repair to the south wall uncovered a remarkable scheme of wall paintings. They bear a similarity to the 14th century wall paintings at nearby North Cove, but what makes them unusual is the main subject, the depiction of a wheel of fortune. It is the only known example in East Anglia, although it is possible that the painting on the south wall at Barton Bendish St Mary in Norfolk may show something similar. The wheel of fortune is a variation on the usual Judgement scene, with a seated figure at the top, and two other figures apparently tied to the wheel, one rising and the other falling. The image of a wheel of fortune was a potent one in late medieval times. It was derived from a work called the Consolation of Philosophy, by the 6th Century Roman philosopher Boethius. By the 13th and 14th centuries, this book was the most widely copied work of secular literature in Europe, central to a university education and formation for the Priesthood. As such, it informed and infused English medieval Christianity, particularly at the time of the Black Death and afterwards.
Famously, Boethius has Fortune tell us that inconstancy is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top. Yes, rise up on my wheel if you like, but don't count it an injury when by the same token you begin to fall, as the rules of the game will require This fatalism is also seen expressed in such more common wall painting scenes as the Three Living and the Three Dead, where the noblemen out hunting are reminded by corpses in various states of decay that as you are, so once was I, as I am so you must be, therefore prepare to follow me. The suggestion is that it is of no use to store up earthly treasures, but the wheel is also intended to remind the viewer of the temporality and uncertainty of material things, and that it is far better to concentrate the mind on higher thoughts.
In the 15th century, there was a move away from classical mysticism towards an enforcement of the orthodoxy of the Catholic Church, mainly because of the way in which the increasing wealth of a rising middle class was paying for reminders of the significance of praying for the dead at that time of pestilence and disease. These wall paintings were probably covered up during the 15th century, a century or so before the protestant iconoclasts came along. Around the wheel are other figures, including the dead rising from their graves, and east of the window are a queen and an angel, probably part of a larger scene. The pitting in the figure of the queen is almost certainly not iconoclasm, but simply the way that the surface has been prepared for a covering of plaster.
For many years this church had been a woefully neglected place, full of dust and dirt. But the discovery seems to have galvanised the local parish. The great carved royal arms of Charles II were swept off to Cambridge to be restored, the unicorn's manhood gilded in magnificent fashion, which may well explain the gloomy look on the envious lion's face. The church is now beautifully kept, and - at last - after many years of being kept locked without a keyholder notice, it is now open every day.
Had to post something transit related, here are some of the better pieces in my small collection of transit tokens.
From top left:
- Des Moines Area Metropolitan Transit Authority, Des Moines, IA
- Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System, Bloomington-Normal, IL
- Beloit Transit System, Beloit, WI
- Minneapolis Street Railway Co. Minneapolis, MN
- City of Mankato bus service, Mankato, MN
- Janesville Transit system, Janesville, WI
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Obverse cud @ K 8-9:30 on first coin and cud @ K 8-10 - cud progression 1+2. Die crack @ K 7:30 at second token.
Reverse die crack @ K 9:30 and inwards at second token.
These tokens were issued in the early 1970's and used until 2002 they are not marked by year (1934 is the year commission was established not the year tokens were produced).
The Commission decided to end the redemption program as of July 1, 2005.
A wet Sunday at Corfe Castle station and a novel way to exchange tokens as 80104 sits in the Up platform with a local mixed train
Not sure of the details of this trade token from 1838. Coin is in poor condition but is the size of the Canadian halfpenny bank tokens of the period.
The electronic 'Token' has just been received for 1Z25 to proceed through the section from Helensburgh to Garelochhead.
19-4-25
Notice that the corresponding area on the reverse appear weakly struck!
These tokens were issued in the early 1970's and used until 2002 they are not marked by year (1934 is the year commission was established not the year tokens were produced).
The Commission decided to end the redemption program as of July 1, 2005.
This was not my plan for this evening, but it made me laugh, and well, laughter always wins out.
You know you think I'm hot.
6M60 rolls into St. Bees station where the single-line token for the Bransty section will be exchanged for that of the Sellafield section.
No.37038 is the last Class 37 in the DRS fleet still carrying the old livery.
No.37259 carries the "Compass" livery recently re-applied following overhaul..
Visiting LNER Class J15 0-6-0 no. 7564 from the North Norfolk Railway poses on the crossing at Bitton, Avon Valley Railway.
Patriotic Civil War Token
The Federal Union It Must Be Preserved
Our Union
This token, bearing a likeness of the famous statue of Andrew Jackson, included his most famous quote concerning his stand against secession. "Our Federal Union! It Must Be Preserved!" was President Andrew Jackson's volunteer toast delivered at the annual Democratic Jefferson Day dinner on 13 April 1830 in response to the South Carolina senator Robert Hayne's pronullification speech. Hayne's speech and the toasts that followed were intended to display a united front for states' rights within the party. Jackson became aware of the plan before the dinner, and he decided to pronounce finally his position on nullification and win back the initiative. To the attendees' shock, Jackson, often identified with states' rights, declared his opposition to nullification and proclaimed his belief in a supreme, perpetual Union.
A very unusual and unique set up from the old days of LNE operations. The blue hut on the platform contains the frame and opposite, in an old booking office are the token machine for the single line to Poppleton and the block instrument for the absolute block signalling to Cattal.
Another from the first day of the West Somerset Railway Spring Steam Spectacular, the day proved to be a trying day for the volunteers and staff of the railway as lineside fires delayed services through the day. However, this presented an unforeseen photographic opportunity towards the end of the day with 45596 Bahamas running some 80" late arriving at Williton with a full maroon rake in gorgeous light.
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My old Nikon always was pretty good at taking macros. Much better than any of the lenses I currently have for my Canon.
People say the new token "has weight to it so it won't be confused with a dime". Some unscientific measuring on my digital kitchen scale says it weighs as much as a dime: 2 grams. It is thicker than a dime though, so it definitely feels different. I think it's that thickness that makes it seem heavier than it is.