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60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As others have said, fair points, but wouldn't you have expected the NYMR management to have made them in their article?
Aug 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Actually, I was perhaps a little unfair in my summary of the maths, nevertheless there are still an inconsistency or two! For example, it is stated in the latest "Moors Line" that the propping work cost £550,00 (at lot more than the 250K I seem...
Aug 4, 2026 at 4:12 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The pi The piece in Moors Line actually also contains the nonsensical maths already pointed out on here, earlier in this thread. At least, they were nonsensical to me and my primary school maths education, but not to whoever wrote the piece ,...
Aug 4, 2026 at 12:40 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Financial problems solved! Several thrill-seeking supporters are taking the plunge for North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) next month. Staff and volunteers of the heritage railway will bungee jump to raise funds for the ongoing Bridge 42...
Aug 4, 2026 at 7:28 AM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I've just had a look on Google earth and I would be surprised if it was possible to engineer in a 5-coach bay platform - even for five coach trains to only depart from. I really can't see it as a meaningful development now that adding or...
Aug 3, 2026 at 10:41 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Maybe it is just me, then, and it would depend on what stage the plans have reached (nowhere or very close to it for most I suspect) but I would like to think that a strategic plan should be written along the lines of a business plan - for...
Aug 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Even though there may not have been Car 79 in the set then it's place must have been taken by an alternative brake vehicle so with the RF in the mix the set would normally have been 5 coaches long. I don't think the GW saloon was regularly...
Aug 3, 2026 at 9:38 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
If that is the case they really are screwed. I predict that revenue will fall away, and it will become ever harder to maintain a steam fleet, but as the NYMR don't have a significant diesel fleet of their own they'll become ever more reliant on...
Aug 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I might have been wrong, and perhaps I saw this and filed it in the usual round filing cabinet, because it is really just 25 pages or so of self-justifying woffle - and I'm not even sure if it is factually correct! Can it really be that a...
Aug 3, 2026 at 3:33 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Laudable aims, but with little no no chance of being met in the current financial state, I feel. I'd love to see the whole strategic plan, but can't access it now I have relinquished my membership (which I'll renew when I see meaningful...
Aug 3, 2026 at 1:05 PM -
60044 liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
One of the biggest problems is that hire fees for diesels aren't anywhere near that of steam either, due to the perceived cheaper running costs. I've heard of some diesel locos being paid £100 a day. You could barely even get a steam loco warm...
Aug 3, 2026 at 11:25 AM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As one of the most highly critical posters about NYMR management, I take your point, and actually I think that most of the management are doing their very best under difficult circumstances, with minimal resources, but I remain firmly of the...
Aug 3, 2026 at 10:54 AM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think you are quite right to be suspicious and even cynical, but run like this for a month or two and the railway saves quite a lot of money, but long term word gets round and the numbers visiting fall off - and so does the income.
Aug 2, 2026 at 5:43 PM
