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60044 odgovara u temi Oil Firing.
Unless we stop using oil and gas altogether, those environmental costs will still be incurred regardless of where the oil and gas originate, and may be reduced by using oil from the north sea instead of shipping it around the world. It is more...
25. Kolovoz 2026. u 15:06 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
New Bridge depot, about a mile from the station at Pickering should be thought as an outstation, where locos are stabled overnight between workings. There is room to build a proper loco shed and depot there, when resources permit, but I doubt if...
24. Kolovoz 2026. u 18:40 -
60044 liked Sulzerman's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Pickering is gateway to the Moors. It's busier than ever and supports hotels including Premier Inn and numerous holiday cottages. It's the entry point for the railway and they founders fought hard, against the local council (!), for the station....
24. Kolovoz 2026. u 15:28 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
....and a lot of the loco fleet would be unusable most of the time.
24. Kolovoz 2026. u 12:44 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The problem is, as I've already pointed out I don't think reducing the line to Whitby-Goathland would work. There's not much traffic originating from Whitby, and I don't think having the main flow from Goathland would work - there's not the car...
24. Kolovoz 2026. u 12:28 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
So, what is your solution? Give it up and close it all? Close the Goathland to Pickering section? Give up on the Grosmont-Whitby route? I hear you listing the problems but, strangely, you don't seem to be listing any ways of dealing with...
24. Kolovoz 2026. u 11:22 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
A valid point, but can you provide any examples of what is being done at the NYMR? Because I can't see any of them!
24. Kolovoz 2026. u 09:20 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Goathland has the great advantage of being located on, and being served by a steam railway! Beyond that, it is necessary to accept the hand it has been dealt, and deal with it! You could argue that Haworth to offer apart from the vicarage and...
24. Kolovoz 2026. u 08:37 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There's more to Goathland than Heartbeat! There's the walk down to the Mallyan Spout, there's the roman road, there's the (alleged!) history of witchcraft in the area, there's the winding house for the incline and the walk down the rail trail to...
23. Kolovoz 2026. u 23:20 -
60044 liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The fundamental flaw in your argument is that the greatest traffic flow starts from Pickering and always has done. The traffic flow from Whitby is substantially less than that from Pickering so abandoning or even reducing trains from Pickering...
23. Kolovoz 2026. u 22:09 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
You obviously didn't read the last line of my post. Lots of people do make the effort to walk to the loco shed but I don't thin anyone would deny it couldn't be improved to become a more attractive destination, and it is one that advertises...
23. Kolovoz 2026. u 18:43 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
That's not to say that other stations can't be developed and marketed as destinations, though, even Levisham - but perhaps not Newtondale Halt! In the past there were horse-drawn cart rides from Newtondale, there's an artist in residence living...
23. Kolovoz 2026. u 18:13 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The Trust membership were persuaded to back Whitby operations because high expenditure on the NYMR's own infrastructure was foreseen, and it was anticipated that the extension to Whitby would increase the annual surplus to help fund them. That...
23. Kolovoz 2026. u 17:10 -
60044 liked Jark91's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The railway existed for many decades operating between Grosmont and Pickering with no Whitby service, moving huge numbers of people. Whitby may be the most popular chunk of the service now (I have no idea but this thread always suggests so) but...
23. Kolovoz 2026. u 17:03 -
60044 odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
What you describe is essentially two separate operations using the same infrastructure - which is the current situation, where there are Whitby services and NYMR-only (internal) services. The problem is that the Whitby services are constrained...
23. Kolovoz 2026. u 14:30
