North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Steam loco availability should improve next week with the return of 44806 after issues found last week.
63395 was steamed for the first time yesterday, and will be running in shortly once some niggles have been ironed out.
29s defective rod (minus defects) returned this week and will be fitted hopefully by the end of the week.

 

A good example of one reason, there are others eg weather, why booking in advance is not to everyone's taste. So I think the three stop ticket is a good idea for the POTD brigade including people starting at Pickering who fancy a walk from Goathland to Grosmont. The website should explain the availability of the three stop ticket.

 

Anyone can pay a donation fare, tax payer or not. Only if a passenger selects / offers to pay the donation fare option are they asked the Gift Aid question (are you a UK tax payer etc).

 

Perhaps you misunderstand my question. I was enquiring where your figure of £32.50 comes from. It seemed a possibility that you were factoring in the benefit of a higher rate taxpayer, but I don't know.

 

Good news, how far away are 926, 80136 and 92134 please?

 

926 passed it's post washout steam test yesterday
92134 is requiring coupling rod bushes to be made then I believe once rods are fitted it's done
80136 is sat at the back of the shed awaiting it's elements returning after it blew a couple on test at the end of May

 

30% discount for booking 14+ day in advance on a donation fare gives £ 38.15
15% voucher back then gives a net cost (ie best value) of £32.50

 

For many reasons, most of which have been discussed in this thread, my wife and I are likely to visit the line only once this year, if at all. This will be for the September gala and will depend on the programme when it is published.

 

Many thanks for the information, looking positive for the steam fleet, which is good news and and thanks to all involved in the MPD.

 

OK, thanks, got it. It seems to be getting more attractive.

 

Is there signage indicating that children now travel free?

 

Did anyone else spot the Yorkshire Post supplement featuring A walk down the Rail Trail between Goathland and Grosmont with return by train?
No mention of any limitations or arrangements about ticketing just turn up and ride is the impression I get.

 

Thank you for the update - very good to hear, hope all goes well.

 

NYMR Future Vision

 

Good to see this being done, and not a bad survey either

 

I hope members are suitably forthright.

 

This one will be! Not sure they'll want to hear my thoughts, though!

 

A very good starting point. It is interesting though that the framing of some of the questions is presumptive. It presumes that you agree that the organisation is committed to the item in question. Really I would ask the question in two parts, “is this the right strategy” and “how well do you think we deliver it now”. That would elicit much more representative results.

 

Then you should respond to the survey as such.

 

That's why I don't think my answers will be quite the ones they are looking for! There's a lot of other interesting info omitted : for example, who is is conducting the survey, the Trust or the Plc?, and who will analyse the returns and generate a report? What will be done to sure that the results generated represent a fair and unbiased account of the responses? It would be all to easy to write and issue a whitewash report the simply reflects the respective board's opinion of themselves doing a wonderful job, when in fact the opposite may be true, and how would that help?