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Paul42 liked 21B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
To be blunt I don’t think you mean that. You have excluded all manner of change already, so clearly you don’t mean whatever change. However, if there had to be one change I would suggest it is to restructure the SMT to include someone that has...
Sep 25, 2026 at 1:21 PM -
Paul42 liked 21B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
100% agree with @Jamessquared. The problems with deferring maintenance are; that the debt accrued becomes invisible to management as well the accounts; It also has a nasty habit of crystallising at the least convenient time often in an...
Sep 25, 2026 at 1:12 PM -
Paul42 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
You don't even necessarily have to sell assets. As an example, you could sell a functional Mark 1 coach for £25k and use the proceeds to pay down some debt and everyone would notice. But if you forwent £1,000 of maintenance on each of a fleet of...
Sep 25, 2026 at 1:11 PM -
Paul42 liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
All the brown signs indicating the way to the NYMR (and other heritage railways) simply say ‘Steam Railway’. Nuff said. That’s what Joe Public want and expect.
Sep 25, 2026 at 1:10 PM -
Paul42 liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think everyone posting on this thread has a desire to see the railway succeed and prosper well into the future. There’s no doubt about that. That’s why they are posting on here and looking for change. And that change has to be far more than...
Sep 25, 2026 at 1:10 PM -
Paul42 liked Waterbuck's post in the thread Kirklees Light Railway.
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Sep 24, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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Paul42 liked WorkingPressure225's post in the thread Bluebell Railway | Giants of Steam | 16th-18th October 2026.
The reasoning behind it (that I’ve been told) is so that 80151 can be part of the line-up of Standards on Saturday at Horsted Keynes. It also means it can double head with the other engines and be facing the same direction, which massively eases...
Sep 24, 2026 at 9:04 PM -
Paul42 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As a folksy example: suppose you are a jam maker, and I wish to start a business selling your jam at a market. I go to the bank, borrow £100 as starting capital (or I guess $100 as it is you!) and you sell me 100 jars of jam at £1 each. At that...
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:57 PM -
Paul42 liked 21B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Profit is a balance sheet thing. Cash flow or to be exact surplus cashflow is what pays down loans
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM -
Paul42 liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I wholly agree; the NYMR has the structure it has, and no amount of "if only" will change that. This is not a logical consequence of what comes before. It reminds me of Charles Clarke when at the Home Office when he pleaded for his job on the...
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM -
Paul42 liked jnc's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I basically agree with your post, overall, but I wanted to comment on this particular point. While my knowledge of the NYMR is not super-deep, I have the strong impression that it is correct to say that it was in fairly poor shape, financially,...
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM -
Paul42 liked 21B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The problem though is that the railway appears to be long past the point where expecting the management and board to be backed is forlorn. That kind of cry can only work when they have the confidence of the organisation, and pretty clearly that...
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM -
Paul42 liked paul1609's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I'm not sure that a return to the passenger numbers that have existed in the past is possible in the current economic situation, at least covering costs/ breaking even. Im not aware of any heritage railway that is achieving the passenger numbers...
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM -
Paul42 liked Obstruction Danger's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
And just in case anyone is still wondering if there was a steam ban this year or not… I asked at customer services and was told there had not been a steam ban this year, if there had been there would have been notices up and these never went up....
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:53 PM -
Paul42 liked Obstruction Danger's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I don’t think anyone assumes that an operational railway could be salvaged I think everyone knows that it would be extremely difficult and highly unlikely. I think what pretty much everyone knows is that if the current regime are allowed to...
Sep 24, 2026 at 7:52 PM
