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jnc liked richards's post in the thread Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway Updates.
Embsay has always been a railway running industrial tank engines with (mainly) mark 1 carriages. As a result, the mainstream steam enthusiasts tend to give it a miss. What they've achieved is amazing with what they've got, and they should be...
Mar 30, 2026 at 3:05 PM -
jnc liked DerekTrotter's post in the thread Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway Updates.
When I visited a few weeks ago, I found Bolton Abbey station, neat, tidy and a huge car park! The office and cafe staff were equally helpful. However the railway now does seem largely set up for dining style trains of all types at various times...
Mar 29, 2026 at 11:56 PM -
jnc liked mdewell's post in the thread Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway Updates.
How long before the other custom turns up? Can you be served, eat and be gone before then?
Mar 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM -
jnc liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
You are only telling me something that, of course, I already knew. Except I had forgotten it! Bryan - sticks and incoming asteroids may hurt dinosaur bones, but words have never hurt them - B :) PS. That is an ancient dinosaur saying.
Mar 29, 2026 at 7:57 PM -
jnc liked Robin Moira White's post in the thread West Somerset Railway General Discussion.
My parents moved the family from Kent to a Somerset village near Glastonbury in 1968 when Dad and my Godfather set up their surveying practice in Wells. In those far off days the Fish and Chip shop in Glastonbury used to have a ‘No Hippies’ sign...
Mar 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM -
jnc liked johnofwessex's post in the thread West Somerset Railway General Discussion.
I would have thought that The Land of the Alternative Reality would not be quite your thing
Mar 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM -
jnc liked Kingscross's post in the thread Avon Valley Railway Updates and Videos.
Network Rail allowed the AVR to takeover a carriage of the inspiration train during its stay at Bristol Temple Meads this weekend. It was extremely busy yesterday and we had great fun engaging with visitors, encouraging them to visit the AVR or...
Mar 29, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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jnc liked marshall5's post in the thread Ribble Steam Railway.
...... and a reminder of what Hornet looked like when it left NCB Bersham in Oct.1983. Ray. [ATTACH]
Mar 29, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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jnc liked ax1709cjm's post in the thread Ribble Steam Railway.
I couldn't seem to find a recent thread on the Ribble Steam Railway, or it's recent Spring Gala, so heres a few pictures from their gala a few weeks ago.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Mar 29, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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jnc liked Daddsie71b's post in the thread Swanage Railway General Discussion.
Dan, this is NP. Don't let the facts get in the way of a story....
Mar 28, 2026 at 7:02 PM -
jnc liked ruddingtonrsh56's post in the thread Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
Given that the Bluebell calls their pullman service The Golden Arrow there's an argument that any loco hauling it is authentic because they are actually hauling a train called the Golden Arrow!
Mar 28, 2026 at 7:01 PM -
jnc liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Wow... [ATTACH]
Mar 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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jnc liked Bail5029's post in the thread West Somerset Railway General Discussion.
Only so much labour. The focus has been on those two. 7828 will be in traffic by the Spring Gala following it's own winter maintainance. No alarm bells.
Mar 27, 2026 at 2:36 PM -
jnc liked Steve's post in the thread Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
People have short memories. Back in June 2022 I was paying c187p/litre for petrol (I no longer had a diesel vehicle so didn't record diesel prices) but it didn't really stop things happening.
Mar 26, 2026 at 8:07 PM -
jnc liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
My bigger worry of rising fuel prices would be the effect it has on passengers. A fag packet calculation: a 44 ton HGV gets supposedly about 7mpg, and a 10% increase in weight costs 5% more fuel. So let’s assume a 100 ton load has cut that fuel...
Mar 26, 2026 at 4:40 PM
