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jnc odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I was trying to understand why either number-of-visitors or passenger-miles (for which number-of-passenger-trips is a reasonably good simulacrum) would necessarily be a good prediction of accident rates - which is presumably what ORR cares about...
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jnc liked Kirk Oswald's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I asked about the wisdom of using the Autocar, an excellent example of preservation of course, earlier in the thread. "The Autocar has very limited seating" let's look at what that implies. To anyone reading the website it says if you turn up...
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jnc liked ghost's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I haven’t had my coffee yet, so I might be missing the obvious, but why are visitor numbers seen as a better measure than passenger numbers? If I “visit” a railway by entering the ticket office, shop, cafe or museum, am I considered a visitor...
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jnc liked 73108's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Of course there are hundreds of such awards run by trade media and (having in a previous professional life been involved in running a few of them), I hate to break this to the delighted NYMR membership secretary, but they're really not worth the...
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jnc liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Dining passengers should be included. It should include anyone who travels on a train. One of the reasons why such information was collected was to enable the ORR to assess risk and target their meagre resources accordingly. A line that...
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jnc liked 21B's post in the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
Was thinking about the comment on loading. The issue with the MHR is being shorter and therefore the stations being closer together, the problem isn’t that Dave couldn’t haul 6 coaches, but that it cannot keep time with that number. 3, possibly 4...
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jnc liked 73108's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.
Having grown up on the Hastings line, somehow there is still something inherently wrong about seeing a stabiliser rail. Despite it being 40 years... :confused:
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jnc liked 73108's post in the thread Spa Valley Railway - Latest News.
Not wishing to hijack the Spa Valley thread or, indeed, the fantastic achievement of replacing the Broom Lane bridge. But... As someone all-too-familiar with such things, I often hear and read similar sentiments. However in my experience (and I...
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jnc liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
For many years heritage railways had to report their visitor numbers and other statistics to the Railway Inspectorate. Eventually the HRA was tasked with doing this and provided collated information to the ORR as it had become. Since the death...
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jnc liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It's interesting that in the last two sets (and possibly more - I didn't look) of NYMR Trust accounts, there is a the identical statement: "The Trust's Heritage Railway Service is the busiest in Britain, carrying prior to the Covid downturn up...
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jnc liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Spa Valley Railway - Latest News.
Many thanks indeed @Jonnie for taking the time to post that report to your volunteers, here as well. It all sounds very sensible to me and of course I hope we all start to see things stabilise re fuel costs and then start dropping back very soon....
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jnc liked Jonnie's post in the thread Spa Valley Railway - Latest News.
The following is a copy-and-paste from a report I've just sent to our volunteers on HOPS. Hello everyone, Saturday and Sunday saw the first trains operating over the new Broom Lane Bridge. It was certainly great to see the whole railway open...
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jnc liked Steve's post in the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
'Dave' may be an industrial and is essentially a Hunslet Austerity. Similar Hunslet Austerity 'Antwerp' used tl handle 6 coach trains on the NYMR, which is a steeper and longer line than the MHR so there's no reason why Dave shouldn't do the...
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jnc liked Swan Age's post in the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
Sad to learn on the excellent 80150 Facebook blog that there was a recent post Easter break in at Ropley, several containers were forced open and loco parts stolen. There really are some low life's around and sadly it is unlikely the parts will...
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jnc liked Alex Productions's post in the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
I would put it down to mainly Can Pac being such a huge undertaking and probably took up more time then expected and then Covid. It really set alot of Railways back, Mid Hants is no exception.
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