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Taken at the Northern Lights Arcade at the Great Wolf Lodge in Traverse City.
Camera: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX1
The Branch Line Society along with TransPennine Express, ran the 'Class 170 Farewell Tracker' from Manchester Airport to Cleethorpes using a trio of Class 170/3 units, 170307, 170306 and 170303, which took in a number of loops and sidings along the way and a visit to Buxton. seen here picking up the token for the single track section to Buxton, along the freight only line past the Tunstead Quarry complex,
The tour would soon come back this way enroute to Sheffield and onwards to Cleethorpes.
After nearly 10 years working for TransPennine having come from South West Trains all nine of these units will be very soon moving on to Chiltern Railways.
The seldom seen (certainly from a passenger service) Great Rocks signal box. The box controls access to the single line to Buxton and works to Peak Forest on the other side. Seen from the East Lancs Firebrand on Friday 30th September 2016.
The token for the single line from Buxton (just surrendered by the driver of the rail-tour) can be seen in the possession of the signalman.
North Norfolk Railway: signalman about to receive the single line token for train entering Sheringham.
Round wooden disc with small hole in center. Blue in color. Stamped in both sides the following: "MEAT" above hole in disk, "VIANDE" below hole, "CANADA" along the top curve of the disk, "RATION" along the bottom curve.
The practice of rationing was practiced in Canada from 1939-1947. Meat was rationed from May 27, 1943 to February 29, 1944 and from September 9, 1945 to March 26, 1947. The second period of meat rationing gave rise to the holed, blue "meat ration" token, a pressed-wood token given as change as one-eighth of a weekly meat ration coupon.
This is the token key machine. The signalman pulls the key up into the top position, presses the knob in several times, which sends a signal to the train driver, who in return sends a signal back which allows the signalman to release the key which is then taken out and handed to the train driver. The train can’t leave without being given the key, which the train driver then has to hand to the signalman and the end of the line. The process is then repeated for the return journey.
A 1s/- token with 'WM. Lees Smithfield Market Birmingham' on. Not sure of it's age, however Smithfield Market is long gone demolished in the 1960/70s, now the location of the newer outdoor Bullring markets or thereabouts. This was found in a collection of other random coins/tokens of my grandmothers in West Bromwich, however I'd love more information on this, what it was used for, who is WM Lees, how old it actually might be?
Catherine of Aragon also first took shelter here.
from the London County Council Survey of London, Volume XXII published in 1950:
“The name Cardinal’s Hat (or Cap), for a house on the site of the present No. 49 Bankside, and for the narrow alley which runs down beside it, dates from at least the time of Elizabeth and perhaps earlier. The suggestion that it was named in compliment to Cardinal Beaufort is attractive but untenable, for Beaufort died in 1447, and the original Cardinal’s Hat was not built till many years later.
The site was described in 1470 as “a void piece of ground”. It is possible that it was named after Cardinal Wolsey who was Bishop of Winchester from 1529-30, although no buildings are mentioned in a sale of the site from John Merston, fishmonger, to Thomas Tailloure, fishmonger in 1533. Stowe lists the Cardinal’s Hat as one of the Stewhouses but he may possibly have been mistaken, including it only because it was one of the more prominent inns on Bankside in his day.
It is shown in the Token Book for 1593 as in occupation of John Raven and as one of a group of houses which in the book for 1588 is described as “Mr. Broker’s Rentes”. Hugh Browker, later the owner of the Manor of Paris Garden, was in possession of ground there in 1579 and it seems likely that he was responsible for the formation of Cardinal’s Cap Alley if not for the building of the original house.
Thomas Mansfield was the tenant of the inn when Edward Alleyn dined there with the “vestrye men” of St. Saviour’s parish in December 1617.
A few years later John Taylor, the water poet makes reference to having supper with “the players” at the Cardinal’s Hat on Bankside. Milchisedeck Fritter, brewer, who tenanted the house from 1627 to 1674 issued a halfpenny token. He was assessed for seven hearths in the hearth tax rolls.
The freehold was sold by Thomas Browker to Thomas Hudson in 1667. The later died in 1688 leaving his “messuages on Bankside” to his sister Mary Greene, with reversion to his great nieces Mary and Sarah Bruce. It was at about this date that the older part of the present house was built. During the 18th century it was bought by the Sells family who both owned and occupied it until 1830. in 1841 Edward Sells of Grove Lane, Camberwell, bequeathed his freehold messauge and yard and stables, being No. 49 Bankside, then in the tenure of George Holditch, merchant, to his son, Vincent Sells. The house is now owned by Major Malcolm Munthe. It has previously been occupied by Anna Lee, the actress.”
Sleep Token in concerto al Graspop Metal Meeting 2023 di Dessel foto di Andrea Ripamonti per www.rockon.it
After all the jewelry the Purple Mage was obliged to wear as status markers, this little token of devotion is that much more precious to Nightowl.
The bathrooms at the Stack's in Menlo Park are in a publicly accessible part of the building, so they use tokens to keep homeless people from sleeping in them.
The Central Wales Line operates on a token system, so Llandrindod box is largely redundant nowadays.
150240 waits for the off with 2V04 Shrewsbury to Swansea, Sunday 17.2.13
Member of railway staff exchanging 'tokens' with the engine driver on arrival at Highley Station, Shropshire, UK.
Tokens are a simple 19th century idea so no two trains can be on a section of single track at any one given time, hence avoiding any collisions.
For info regarding our token system in use in the UK, see :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_(railway_signalling)
- scroll down and click on railway signalling link under 'other uses'......
At the amusement fair you often get tokens in plastic to prove you are allowed on an attraction. We make can make them in all colors and shapes!
Class 40 no 40106 Atlantic Conveyor rounds the very tight curve into Bury Bolton Street on a sunny spring morning. Note the small wisp of steam from the heating escaping from the leading coach - this wasn't required very long on a warm day!
From Melbourne Australia a halfpenny token to be used to purchase merchandise from the General Marine Store.
Seen on a regional bus line; Los Mochis, Sinaloa (Mexico).
Learn more about Mexico's chicken buses at my travelog.