AYLESBURY - CALVERT TOKEN

Down trains will request a token release while stopped at the down (left) end of Aylesbury North Loop. Trains can use either the main line or the loop but will stop to collect the token. The token release will be flashing white when requested: left click to grant the release. When the driver actually takes the token, the red “Token Out” circle will change to a solid red circle. The route from ME303 towards Calvert is available once the token has been taken.

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Down trains will request a token release while stopped at the down (left) end of Aylesbury North Loop. Trains can use either the main line or the loop but will stop to collect the token. The token release will be flashing white when requested: left click to grant the release. When the driver actually takes the token, the red “Token Out” circle will change to a solid red circle. The route from ME303 towards Calvert is available once the token has been taken.

So trains have to be routed into the loop (which I do by habit anyway) or are you suggesting they should be able to be routed through main and pause at the end of the loop?

Invoke Special Procedures for that train. In other words, try to send it down to Claydon without the token and passing the signal at danger (somebody can probably say what the real life procedure is for this - if there is one), or "Remove train".

In other words, try to send it down to Claydon without the token and passing the signal at danger (somebody can probably say what the real life procedure is for this - if there is one), or "Remove train".

If it was a token failure, institute pilotman working. Not sure in this instance as there's no mechanical failure, especially as both machine release at the same time.

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Down trains will request a token release while stopped at the down (left) end of Aylesbury North Loop. Trains can use either the main line or the loop but will stop to collect the token. The token release will be flashing white when requested: left click to grant the release. When the driver actually takes the token, the red “Token Out” circle will change to a solid red circle. The route from ME303 towards Calvert is available once the token has been taken.

So trains have to be routed into the loop (which I do by habit anyway) or are you suggesting they should be able to be routed through main and pause at the end of the loop?

Theoretically they can use the main but there is no safe walking route to the token machine so trains have to use the loop.

Regarding reversing the original train, unfortunately without that stop in the timetable and already gone past the entrance to the loop (ie on the Aylesbury end), you will have to invoke Special Procedures for that train. In other words, try to send it down to Claydon without the token and passing the signal at danger (somebody can probably say what the real life procedure is for this - if there is one), or "Remove train".

"The driver will render himself liable to dismissal if he leaves a token station without being in possession of the token for the section of line concerned..." Well I think that counts as a special procedure :lol:

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"The driver will render himself liable to dismissal if he leaves a token station without being in possession of the token for the section of line concerned..." Well I think that counts as a special procedure :lol:

Perhaps unusual is that in this case the token machine is a few miles before the token section actually begins, with colour light signalling up to the point where the token section commences. So he hasn't actually violated the token part of the deal yet, just left himself in a bit of a predicament!

Certainly not unique; I believe it may be (have been?) Worcester where there were token instruments at one of the stations for the first single line section of the Cotswold Line. That allowed the train to take the junction at line speed rather than having to stop dead (if the rules were obeyed...) to collect the token. But I think in that case there was an instrument at the junction as well so that he could still get a token if he'd left Worcester while the single line was still occupied. (Just to add to the fun, I was given to understand there were several instruments at Worcester - the driver didn't even need to walk across to another platform.) But I was told this a long long time ago so I may have misremembered.

Aylesbury North Loop has two machines, one at each end, one for issuing, one for receiving, thus guaranteeing work for somebody at least once a week to balance the tokens! Which leads me to a question: how is the safety of trains ensured while "(wo)man in a van" transfers a number of tokens - and how is the correct number of tokens returned verified?

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"The driver will render himself liable to dismissal if he leaves a token station without being in possession of the token for the section of line concerned..." Well I think that counts as a special procedure :lol:

Perhaps unusual is that in this case the token machine is a few miles before the token section actually begins, with colour light signalling up to the point where the token section commences. So he hasn't actually violated the token part of the deal yet, just left himself in a bit of a predicament!

Certainly not unique; I believe it may be (have been?) Worcester where there were token instruments at one of the stations for the first single line section of the Cotswold Line. That allowed the train to take the junction at line speed rather than having to stop dead (if the rules were obeyed...) to collect the token. But I think in that case there was an instrument at the junction as well so that he could still get a token if he'd left Worcester while the single line was still occupied. (Just to add to the fun, I was given to understand there were several instruments at Worcester - the driver didn't even need to walk across to another platform.) But I was told this a long long time ago so I may have misremembered.

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Aylesbury North Loop has two machines, one at each end, one for issuing, one for receiving, thus guaranteeing work for somebody at least once a week to balance the tokens! Which leads me to a question: how is the safety of trains ensured while "(wo)man in a van" transfers a number of tokens - and how is the correct number of tokens returned verified?

Where balancing happens regularly, the machines are adapted to take a carrier. Tokens can be moved into or out of the carrier from the magazine but can't otherwise be got out of that hole. Similarly, the hatch on the carrier only opens when it's connected to an appropriate machine. Tokens in a carrier do *NOT* grant authority to proceed on the line.