Token apparatus - have I got this 'all right'
Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 8:10 pm
The web site http://www.trainweb.org/singleline/stour_valley_line/stour_valley_line.htm shows two tokens for the sections of the Stour valley line for Clare. One is a Tyer number 6 token http://www.trainweb.org/singleline/stour_valley_line/cavendish_clare.jpg which is a large brass disk type token for Cavendish to Clare, the other is a Tyer number 9 token http://www.trainweb.org/singleline/stour_valley_line/haverhillnorth_clare.jpg which is more like a key for Clare to Haverhill North. I'm presuming that this dates from after the closure of Stoke-by-Clare box and the 'key' was used to unlock a ground frame there which gave access to the siding.
This arrangement works for me as I've added a fictitious siding to a mill which would have been released by a key on the token.
Looking online I'm seeing pictures for Tyer number 6 equipment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tyer%27s_No._6_Tablet_Instrument-1.JPGand Tyer number 9 http://www.gwr.org.uk/venton/token-apparatus.png
I'm presuming these would both have sat on a table on the rear wall of the box.
Was it common to have two different types of token apparatus in the same box?
Does any of this make any sense?
thanks
David Barham
This arrangement works for me as I've added a fictitious siding to a mill which would have been released by a key on the token.
Looking online I'm seeing pictures for Tyer number 6 equipment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tyer%27s_No._6_Tablet_Instrument-1.JPGand Tyer number 9 http://www.gwr.org.uk/venton/token-apparatus.png
I'm presuming these would both have sat on a table on the rear wall of the box.
Was it common to have two different types of token apparatus in the same box?
Does any of this make any sense?
thanks
David Barham