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60044 reageerde op het topic Isle Of Man Steam Railway.
Longer term readers will remember that you have never really done anything productive, other than complain vociferously, hat no-one is doing anything constructive to achieve the the goals you are setting for them. Cough up, show up, or shut up...
9 feb 2026 om 08:00 -
60044 vond cksteam's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I may be wide of the mark but I genuinely believe that the Whitby problem in part is because holiday makers used to spend a day on the railway and then a day in Whitby. Now they do both on the same day. And with prices as high as they are you are...
8 feb 2026 om 18:30 -
60044 reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
You You may well be right, but I would have thought that the inevitable conclusion from what you are suggesting is that the NYMR, as a business, must cut its costs if it is to survive - and if 40% or so of its costs are wages that's an...
8 feb 2026 om 18:09 -
60044 reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The Birch Hall and incline walks are still poplar, I think, but there are so many other possibilities that could be written up as guidebooks: circular walks from Levisham, Newtondale Halt or Goathland with different themes - different walks for...
8 feb 2026 om 15:06 -
60044 vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Indeed not. If we make, gross, say £1m in catering trains out of a gross railway income of £4.5m, then not running those trains just means the fixed costs of running the railway - infrastructure and so on - gets spread over a smaller base,...
8 feb 2026 om 12:32 -
60044 vond Steve's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Going back many years bow, there was a plan to build the NYMR equivalent of the Engine House at Grosmont. it was in the 1980's and would be known as the Bellwood centre and primarily intended to hold out of ticket locos under cover but with much...
8 feb 2026 om 12:30 -
60044 reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It shouldn't be difficult to run those "internal" trains, and they do, but clearly they aren't well enough promoted. Nowadays, as well, one of the slots is frequently taken up by a lunchtime diner, which may be profitable but is possibly also...
7 feb 2026 om 16:50 -
60044 vond 35B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I agree with this analysis, but with a caveat. A curiosity of the timetable is that most paths cannot serve Whitby. That has two effects. The first is that there is capacity within the hourly timetable to travel to the intermediate...
7 feb 2026 om 16:42 -
60044 reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I never said it would be easy ..... but I really do feel that attempts need to be made, and I don't see any of those being made at present.. I'll put another argument - in the pre- and early-Whitby days the NYMR made a reasonable annual...
7 feb 2026 om 15:23 -
60044 vond 21B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I find it helpful to think of the opportunities to deliver services to the public as products. Each product has its own unique characteristics that appeal to a unique set of customers (there is of course overlap because more than one product may...
7 feb 2026 om 15:03 -
60044 reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Can't agree with you on this one. A lot depends on why you believe the railway is there in the first place. When it was first established it was viewed by the National Park Authority as a means of accessing the National Park; that's why they...
7 feb 2026 om 11:32 -
60044 reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
We've had a lot of detailed discussion about the fall off in traffic at the NYMR and the subsequent financial woes, but I think it can all be summed up fairly succinctly - the NYMR management in recent years have forgotten that the railway is...
7 feb 2026 om 09:38 -
60044 reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It may not be the he same generation nowadays, but has walking declined in popularity? If anything, I'd argue the other way - people are staying active till older now, and fitness in all its forms s more popular than ever - but's still a...
6 feb 2026 om 22:07
