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  1. pmh_74 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Sorry to wind this back a few pages; catching up. With respect, I think you're over-simplifying what is meant by 'volunteers enjoying their hobby'. I've never been a NYMR volunteer but based on my experience elsewhere, I have enjoyed being out...

    Oct 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM

  2. pmh_74 liked Sawdust's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    With due respect, your analogy is flawed. Other than what you pay a golf club generates no income from you playing golf. By volunteering to drive a locomotive, operating a signal box or guarding a train, you are saving that railway either cost of...

    Oct 5, 2026 at 1:52 PM

  3. pmh_74 replied to the thread Windcutter Wagons.

    *Cough* and some in Wales...

    Oct 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM

  4. pmh_74 liked Sawdust's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    You often talk as though public benefit and what members and volunteers want are mutually exclusive, whereas in truth they are for the most part identical. Sawdust.

    Oct 2, 2026 at 1:50 PM

  5. pmh_74 liked Sawdust's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    None of them are substantial businesses, relatively they are still small businesses. The turnover may be larger now but that takes no account of the corrosive effect on the buying power of currency, that inflation brings. In real terms the NYMR...

    Oct 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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