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jnc liked 21B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
All heritage railways exist because enough people wanted them to. They continue (or not) for the same reason. Talking about profit and loss sort of misses that point. It is of course essential to know what your means are and live within them, but...
Apr 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM -
jnc liked ghost's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
You are of course talking about a legacy that does not exist until the person in question passes away, I don’t think any of us should be wishing for that just to save a railway. I suspect you would need to find money from elsewhere and I’m not...
Apr 29, 2026 at 9:23 PM -
jnc liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Some would argue that, legally, this is what the NYMR Trust already is, and that the Trust/PLC set up is designed to achieve precisely that outcome. We can see how well that is working... The issue, which we've seen mentioned with NYMR and...
Apr 29, 2026 at 8:54 PM -
jnc liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Thinking about things, I suggest that it would be possible to run a limited service from Pickering to Whitby and not interfere with the Thomas event. The first train out of Pickering is normanlly at 09.20. That could run from Pl.1, as normal...
Apr 29, 2026 at 8:53 PM -
jnc liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01036704/charges and https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02490244/charges
Apr 29, 2026 at 8:51 PM -
jnc liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There ws regular contributor on here who last year became a Trust Board member for the first time. He has effectively been silenced judging by the lack of posts on here and elsewhere.
Apr 29, 2026 at 8:51 PM -
jnc replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Your point, I assume, is that much of the land, etc are already mortgaged (although, to be fair, many of these date back to 2017/2019, so this wasn't done as the result of recent ineptitude)? Some is mortgaged to the National Heritage Memorial...
Apr 29, 2026 at 8:51 PM -
jnc replied to the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
Excellent news - and progress! It's going better than dealing with previous slips on the line, I think - but maybe that's just that this one has caused much less upset to ordinary goings-on on the line than the Chicken Curve one did. I guess the...
Apr 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM -
jnc replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The photos aren’t that much better than the images in the 'Essential Maintenance Work' document from the Planning Application; good images, though. Noel
Apr 29, 2026 at 7:28 PM -
jnc liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Do you mean formally, or informally? Formally, the Trust board is pretty bomb-proof. The measures introduced 5 or so years ago give them the ability to reject any candidate that they disapprove of, and the result is that they are able to be...
Apr 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM -
jnc replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
That is exactly the problem. If the NYMR keeps on loosing hundreds of thousands of pounds per year (as it has for several years now), it will inevitably wind up filing for insolvency, and some asset strippers will no doubt snap up the most...
Apr 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM -
jnc liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The answer is "with difficulty", because the Articles are written to make it difficult to campaign for Trustees, while the legal route through calling EGMs etc. is challenging (see previous discussions about NYMR, WSR and L&B for examples), takes...
Apr 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM -
jnc liked paul1609's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As I understand it the licenses to hold Thomas Events are quite proscriptive especially with regards to child protection requirements. The NYMR may have only had the option of a one product site.
Apr 29, 2026 at 12:40 PM -
jnc liked cksteam's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Thanks for sharing. It may well look worse than it is, but it does look pretty bad. I'm not surprised they have left it this long to start work on it, but I am disappointed. Obviously I'm just going on appearance but I would have hoped that was a...
Apr 28, 2026 at 10:26 AM -
jnc liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think the label is the least important part of the equation - NYMR's current travails demonstrate how success is about much more than what one calls oneself or is called. I've seen excellent treatment in hospitals that are unquestionably...
Apr 28, 2026 at 1:23 AM
