AJCT Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 There is a picture link on the 'net showing Tyers tablet machines in use at Glenwhilly in 2012 two machines so presumably in use in both directions. If the link works notice also the shape of the pouch on the catching hoop on the wall behind the machines - always a giveaway if tablets are in use. https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/8014799566/in/set-72157626529845049 Thanks for that, which confirms what I observed - other pics associated with the link you provided show the "Scottish Region Tokenless Block instrument for the section to Girvan" in Kilkerran 'box. Alasdair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted September 2, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 2, 2014 Thanks for that, which confirms what I observed - other pics associated with the link you provided show the "Scottish Region Tokenless Block instrument for the section to Girvan" in Kilkerran 'box. Alasdair Not a very nice looking thing at all - the WR ones were in proper wooden cases, I'll try to scan in a pic sometime as i took one specially in Yeovil Jcn 'box about 20 years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Some examples of OTW staffs a particularly mean modern example. It is for the section from Fenny Compton to Kineton and is released by the signalman at Leamington from a cabinet at Fenny Compton. So mean an example is it that the section limits are not engraved into it as such and has to do with the letters 'KB' inscribed in it. Its predecessor was much nicer looking when Fenny Compton box was open and currently resides in a glass case in Leamington box. Not long before the box at Fenny Compton was closed they changed the working to train staff and ticket, the ticket box being an old ammo box unlocked by a key chained to the staff. A whole new set of instructions where drafted. I cannot remember much about them other than feeling singularly unimpressed and wondering why they could have not just resurrected an old set of instructions. The point was fairly moot however since at the other end of the section was the army who would have no truck with this 'new fangled, high tec' form of working. They insisted that if one train was to follow another then the first would carry the staff and they would return the staff by road for the second train. an example off the Southern for the gravel trains to Lavant and one from the Eastern cast from brass. The signalman told me that the previous wooden one had become so damaged that they where virtually handing the driver a bag of splinters hence the much more robust example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Southminster on 04/09/1985. I think this was the last place to use miniature staffs on mainland Britain for the section to Fambridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold TheSignalEngineer Posted September 9, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 9, 2014 Here's one I posted earlier, on the Soho Pool Branch. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/87693-token-hut/&do=findComment&comment=1507797. One of the other links on that post shows the one at Grendon Underwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggesford box Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Two examples of Scottish region tokenless block instruments Keith Junction Dunkeld, a nicer looking example The Southern regions version in Hastings box to working to Rye At first glance a standard Southern block instrument (ignore the file title) Until you look at the diagram! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium corneliuslundie Posted September 9, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 9, 2014 Just been reading volume 2 of the Burry Port and Gwendreath Valleys book. When the line to Cwmawr was made one section, according to the author, they simply strapped the four tokens for the four previous sections together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNERGE Posted September 12, 2014 Share Posted September 12, 2014 Tokenless block in Hastings box.JPG The Southern regions version in Hastings box to working to Rye The Eastern Region version here.. The reminder appliances must be different? Is the part number different for the Southern Region version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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