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green five liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think regardless of how you might view the situation, personal attacks like that are not warranted and generally only serve to weaken your case, not strengthen it. Tom
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:25 PM -
green five liked 21B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It’s not the what but the how. At every single step at the moment the NYMR creates and reinforces a bunker mentality. None of what is being done is necessarily wrong, but the way it is being done is tone deaf. I mean how does anyone interpret...
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM -
green five liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The problem is it's coming across as more of an appointment committee than a nomination committee. To an outsider, it appears you've got the people in charge deciding who they want and who will follow their agenda, which from looking through the...
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM -
green five liked Kirk Oswald's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
This falls somewhere between legalistic gobbledegook and the nitrogenous matter that Steve mentions in his posting. Diversity is an important word when used in the correct context but is hardly useful if it means the inclusion of those who are...
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM -
green five liked Kirk Oswald's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I highlight these two sentences as they make clear it's Trustees who decide how legacies are spent and, if the worst happens, they would be used to pay off Santander and Nat West debt. Hardly likely to encourage donations or bequests. Spot on....
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:22 PM -
green five liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
And how do you know that grant funding organisations see it as an important way of achieving board diversity? It is just more bu115h1t
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM -
green five liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I’ve no idea who the candidates were, or whether the nomination committee decision was good. I also don’t care. The impression left, on top of the timing and delay to the AGM, is appalling, and can only leave an impression that the wagons are...
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:21 PM -
green five liked D7076's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
AGM email received . Eight nominations for the board of directors received for four vacancies . The committee of wise people have chosen which four they want so no requirement or opportunity for the general membership to have a say . Need we say...
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:18 PM -
green five liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
On that point - the accompanying note with the AGM papers says in effect that eight nominations were received for four vacancies; that list was whittled down to six candidates (unclear how but presumably based on their candidate statements); and...
Sep 30, 2026 at 1:17 PM -
green five liked Old Kent Biker's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I would say an appeal for £150,000 and a project to relay half a mile of track at Snapper, plus the launch of the website, and an announcement of the membership scheme was all fairly big news. There was mention of a few very close pending...
Sep 29, 2026 at 1:24 PM -
green five liked Old Kent Biker's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
The new Barnstaple & Yeo Valley Railway Trust website launched on Saturday, along with an appeal to raise £150,000 to relay 730 metres (half a mile) of track at Snapper Halt
Sep 29, 2026 at 1:22 PM -
green five liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
IMHO the most important thing about the use of AI generated material is that the fact that it is AI-generated is made very clear up front. A sort of "this what it may have looked like if...." offering is one thing, but simply publishing...
Sep 29, 2026 at 1:21 PM -
green five liked Big Al's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
What Tom has just described is so fundamentally obvious that one assumes it must be data that the NYMR holds. If that is the case then that information should helpfully be shared in some shape or form at AGMs thereby removing most of the...
Sep 29, 2026 at 1:15 PM -
green five liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There was a bit of a conversation that started about here: https://national-preservation.com/threads/north-yorkshire-moors-railway-general-discussion.29732/page-407 (when, oddly enough, we were discussing the NYMR accounts ;) ) though I am...
Sep 29, 2026 at 1:15 PM -
green five liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think expecting loco overhauls to be paid out of running costs is extremely optimistic. For example, you could spend £100k on an overhaul and depreciate it over 10 years, so £10k per year. If you are really cute, you put £10k per year away for...
Sep 29, 2026 at 1:14 PM
