The Exchanging Of Rings

Following a morning of hunting out better value breakdown cover and finding hire cars and insurance for our trip to Norway. Richard dropped me up along the Newton Dale valley to walk back home with Jet.

This was a good choice as it afforded shelter from a cool breeze. As we emerged from the woods at the level crossing Nigel Gresley was heading down the single track route to Levisham.

This is the exchange of tokens takes place as the train leaves Pickering.

In railway signalling, a token is a physical object which a locomotive driver is required to have or see before entering onto a particular section of single track. The token is clearly endorsed with the name of the section it belongs to. A token system is used for single lines because of the very much greater risk of serious collision in the event of irregular working by signalmen or traincrews, than on double lines.