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  1. 26D_M vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    If so, that doesn't tend to come through in your writing! There was a similar point earlier, when you answered a question about ownership, and in particular how in many heritage railway organisations, the members don't own the railway. I think...

    25 sep 2026 om 19:21
  2. 26D_M vond Sheff's post leuk in het topic Steamtown Carnforth.

    Was there no obligation on WCRC to maintain this?

    24 sep 2026 om 17:56
  3. 26D_M vond 2857Harry's post leuk in het topic Jacobite 2026.

    [IMG] Reflections by Harry Bradley, on Flickr

    23 sep 2026 om 17:58
  4. 26D_M vond MellishR's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    There seems some uncertainty as to what steam locos were available for traffic and therefore how much steam operation there might have been in the absence of fire risk; but anyway in some periods there was hardly any apart from Tornado. Insofar...

    23 sep 2026 om 15:30
  5. 26D_M vond Big Al's post leuk in het topic Jacobite 2026.

    Journey's end today at Mallaig on a beautiful day in the West Highlands. Added bonus - Ian Riley was in charge of his own loco. [ATTACH]

    20260923_123604.jpg 23 sep 2026 om 14:19
  6. 26D_M vond 35B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    For clarity, I would have had no issue had the railway declared a moratorium on steam operations and the lack of one (certainly south of Goathland) surprised me / brought the cynic out in me due to the visitors (delete as applicable). But it...

    22 sep 2026 om 20:32
  7. 26D_M vond jnc's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    They're stuck between the proverbial rock and hard place, and thus desperately trying to find a way to have their cake, and eat it too. The right answer would have been to not go there to begin with, but they are probably close enough to the edge...

    22 sep 2026 om 20:23
  8. 26D_M vond 21B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I think the general feeling seems to be that fire risk was a convenient cover story for the underlying situation that no steam engines were available and that that was a consequence of one or two factors, lack of people to maintain and/or lack of...

    22 sep 2026 om 20:22
  9. 26D_M vond 60044's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    There are examples in the past of items that were scrapped despite not being owned by the NYMR - a set of 4 axles owned by the LNERCA with good tyres that "disappeared" in one drive They weren't recognised as being for Mk 1s by the "expert" and...

    21 sep 2026 om 18:20