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Beyer Garratt 6029 simmers away at Thirlmere waiting for the staff to be delivered to the driver before the train is permitted to travel the single line section between Thirlmere and Picton.
Staff and Ticket safeworking is all but extinct in New South Wales, having been used extensively across the world for over 140 years
Driver and Signalman exchange the Tondu to Maesteg token. Always interesting to see the token exchange, will be a shame to see when it ends.
175101 working the delayed 1W94 1215 Maesteg to Holyhead.
The bobby takes the token from the 2nd man on 40106 as the driver slows his train to dead slow for the final approach to Bewdley station with the 0945 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster. 37263 was hitching a ride.
The event was the Severn Valley Railways Winter Diesel Gala which did feature a small Kettle number 7714 also.
The driver of 60015 exchanges tokens with the signaller at Great Rocks Jcn.
The 60 has worked from Dowlow to Buxton and then reversed to traverse the former Midland line through to Great Rocks. With the reversal, token exchange and a driver change at Peak Forest, it is possible to photograph this working several times in the Buxton area before it disappears into Doveholes tunnel and heads off towards Ashburys on the outskirts of Manchester.
6th April 2018.
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37415 approaches the Highland Railway cabin at Clachnaharry on 28/6/86.This is still in use to control access to the Muirtown basin in Inverness
Olympus OM1N K64 film
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The token process, step five: handing over the token to the engineer.
Thanks to the very nice station crew of Patal Pani.
On 16 June 2025 another route leaning trip was organised in preparation for Belmond's 'Britannic Explorer' luxury rail tours that start next month, this working was 0Z37, the 08.15 Coleham to Haverfordwest via the Heart of Wales Line, the locomotive was again, Swietelsky's 37405. I am generaly not a great fan of images of light engine movements, so opted for this shot, the driver and signaller at Pantyffynnon exchange tokens on what was to become a very pleasantly warm day.
The driver of 66068 takes the token from the signaller at at Great Rocks for the single line section to Buxton on 12th May 2022 with 6Z61 1309 Peak Forest to Briggs
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37422 diesel-electric locomotive approaches St. Bees on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C47 the 17:31 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle passenger service.
A local flickr friend told me of a Great Blue Heron rookery she had seen in Walla Walla, WA. I went there yesterday afternoon and this morning. It was a little overcast yesterday but today the sun was out. This was my first picture this morning and boy was I pleased! There were three nests in the tree. In two of the nests there was a bird, but for some reason these two were beneath the third of the nests.
A TOKEN is the topic for Monday 14th October 2019
When my daughter was in the Seabee"s she gave me this token, very proud of all she has done in her life.
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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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.
These were issued in the 1930's to be used for sales tax amounts under 1 cent. Not something ever seen in 2024!
The driver of 66772 hands over the single line token from Buxton to the signalman at Great Rocks Junction.
"By all these lovely tokens
September days are here,
With summer's best of weather,
And autumn's best of cheer."
Helen Hunt Jackson
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Caught out of position for the 170 minute early running 12.55 Briggs Steetley - Ashburys (6H52) aggregates off Dowlow I settled for this shot of the Driver handing the token to the Bobby at Great Rocks Junction box - recorded for posterity an everyday occurence for now, but who knows how long it will last.
The loco is DBS Shed 66109 and the token being deposited covers the single line section from Buxton.
27th August 2014
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....
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
The second man on English Electric type 4, N. D352 exchanges the single line token with the Newburgh signalman forming a figure of eight on an April evening in 1971. Instamatic 104, kodachrome 64.
Finally a group shot of my big ones!
There's just not enough room for such shots. But at least I have 2 daylight lamps and umbrellas now so I can shoot whenever I like (if I manage to position them in that tight space somehow).
My poor boys only have one whole outfit each. I don't even like Ki's much yet. But it's so hard to find boy stuff that isn't too modern looking and fits with what I have in mind for them. Well, and doesn't cost me an arm and a leg that is... *sigh*
And I think I need a new wig for Ki. The bangs came out to short in the end.
Btw: I love when dollies hold hands. SO cute! x3