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To follow on from another recent upload this is the single line token that permits trains to run between Buxton No.1 Junction and Great Rocks Junction on the former Midland Railway route through Wye Dale. The token is issued to the driver in a leather pouch but I took it out for this quick picture. The pouch is fitted with a wire loop allowing an easy hand over at both signal boxes.
TATA based WAG-5 loco - 23162 comes close to me while ALP is busy collecting the token !! Railfan Harsh Dinesh can also be seen in the same frame taking close up shot !!
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37191 was withdrawn in February 2001 after over 37 years service.
37184 was withdrawn in May 2000 and scrapped in September the following year.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 exchange… British Railways Standard 4 No. 75069 arrives at Arley station during the Severn Valley heritage railway’s autumn steam gala on 21st September 2024. Built at Swindon in 1955, No. 75069 was withdrawn from service at Eastleigh in 1966 from here it went to the Barry scrapyard of Woodham Brothers. The loco was rescued by the 75069 Fund who brought the locomotive to the Severn Valley Railway. The restoration was completed in 1984.
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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
The fireman of L&YR Class 27 3F 0-6-0 No. 1300 (most welcome visitor from the Ribble Steam Railway), piloting L&YR Ironclad Class 25 2F 0-6-0 No. 957 (on its last Gala appearance prior to boiler overhaul due to expiry of its boiler certificate), receives the Token from the Damems Signalman so they can depart the Damems Loop and begin the steep 1 in 60 Oakworth Bank climb, hauling 5 Vintage Stock Carriages, working the 13:00 Service from Keighley to Oxenhope on 12th October 2012, during the KWVR Autumn 2012 Steam Gala.
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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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.
The 1A52 12:20 Inverness to Aberdeen arrives at Nairn where the token exchange is completed by a member of the station staff. Class 37/4 37404 'Ben Cruachan' was providing the 'growl' up front.
A product of the English Electric Vulcan Foundary, D6986 was delivered in June 1965. TOPS classification as a 37/0 saw it renumbered to 37286 at the start of 1973. Refurbishment and the fitting of train heating completed in 1985 saw it emerge as 37404 in large logo blue. In January 1986 it was named 'Ben Cruachan' and re-painting to InterCity Mainline livery as illustrated was completed mid-1989. After 33 years and 8 months in service, withdrawal came in February 1999 and the locomotive was scrapped at C F Booth, Rotherham 3 years later.
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Woke up early to take the image, edited the image...forgot to post the image. So here it is, for the sake of posterity and workflow completion. Sunrise as it breaks through the treeline this Cold November Morning.
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 Passneger.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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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