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60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
A more interesting question would be what is leaving to make way for it? After all, the NYMR operates a "one in/one out policy" doesn't it, and it hardly needs another diesel shunter, even more so if it needs any work doing on it.
Jul 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Even better news would be 60532 or 61306 for the ASG - but I'm not holding my breath!
Jul 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think it has been announced that the NER Autocar and trailer are now staying until the end of August. It's a shame they will not be there to provide a shuttle service at the Autumn gala in that case.
Jul 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM -
60044 replied to the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
Maybe the AI underpinning this site is learning from a lot of us and getting very bored with BR black and numbers/crests? Not all of us are dinosaurs looking to recreate their youth - some of us enjoy seeing history from further back recreated!
Jul 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
We should also bear in mind that the NER Autocar and trailer are on hire to the NYMR, they are not based there, and the hire period is due to be up soon, I think. What will happen once they are gone? I can't see !"Daisy" providing a big...
Jul 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I'm not sure that the Goathland single slip is a 2nice to have" - its absence restricts the ability run anything other than Grosmont Pickering services at the northern end of the line, and it was also part of what the NYMR was supposed to be...
Jul 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There's a further point to consider - for a long time the only space available was behind the Grosmont shed site. At the moment it's full of stored carriages and assorted bits of locos, machinery and the like. It was to be the site of the...
Jul 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It may have escaped your notice, but the NYMR has been running up big losses in recent years, and many of us fear that this year will not see much change to that. The upshot is to ask -"where will the money come from?". Even with an HLF grant,...
Jul 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
If you pause to consider which of the currently available locos will probably be out of traffic in 4-5 years time ~I think you will have an answer - I can think of 45428, 926, 80136, 29 and 92134 for starters of the service fleet, possibly S160...
Jul 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Do you seriously think that bearing a name added in preservation or carrying the Olympic torch really matters? I think the fact that it was bought by a very wealthy donor who (I think) retains 50% ownership is probably more telling, as is the...
Jul 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
....and so did 80135 (although no further than Middlesboro, I think).
Jul 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM -
60044 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think the answer to your question is "nobody (outside the management) knows" - and those who don't know aren't giving any reasoning. For my own part I 'd prefer to see 76079 rebuilt rather than the 4-6-0. And in answer to the earlier...
Jul 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
