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  1. 35B liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E..

    Lyme Regis branch, Wenford Bridge branch, anything on the Isle of Wight, Hayling Island, Canterbury and Whitstable … :) Tom

    Mar 20, 2026 at 2:43 PM

  2. 35B replied to the thread Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E..

    And the 9Fs?

    Mar 20, 2026 at 2:03 PM

  3. 35B liked Johnb's post in the thread Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E..

    The railway companies were commercial organisations and the reluctance to absorb basket case local railways goes back further than 1923. The NB wouldn’t work the Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway on the basis that the revenue wouldn’t cover...

    Mar 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM

  4. 35B liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E..

    Didn’t we have a long thread somewhere considering Gresley and the strengths and weaknesses of his designs, the vagaries of valve gear, and trying to set it all in context of the various constraints he was under as a CME? I seem to recall we...

    Mar 20, 2026 at 8:16 AM

  5. 35B liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    This was all discussed umpteen pages ago, as was comparison with National Trust houses and gardens tickets. As I understand it, HMRC insisted on Gift Aid only being acceptable on full line tickets. I don’t think any reason was forthcoming.

    Mar 20, 2026 at 7:00 AM

  6. 35B replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    The point about software is well made, but I'm not at all convinced about the question of change. HMRC don't mandate which software is used, or even particularly pay attention. What they require is that the body taking the donation keeps...

    Mar 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM

  7. 35B replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I tend to agree. All of which suggests an issue with how individual products are set up on the NYMR booking engine which, sadly, seems symptomatic of the logical confusions we've seen before

    Mar 19, 2026 at 2:02 PM

  8. 35B replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I read there as being confusion here. What people are writing of the user journey suggests that tickets are not being sold as Gift Aid tickets, but that purchasers are being invited to make additional donations, which would be eligible for Gift...

    Mar 19, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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