Steves letzte Aktivitäten
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Steve gefällt torgormaigs Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Since when did Footplate Experience operations become known as Footex? Historically Footex was a term for football excursions in the wider railway world. Peter
21 Juli 2026 um 18:52 -
Steve gefällt cksteams Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Just to throw in - 29 is out on Driver Experience today. So still no steam ban, just nothing available.
21 Juli 2026 um 18:49 -
Steve gefällt torgormaigs Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Do we know what the deal is between the railway and the loco owners. My impression is that the loco was offered to the railway because it needed the work rather than because the railway needed it as an attraction. I suspect that if there are any...
21 Juli 2026 um 18:49 -
Steve antwortete auf das Thema Dartmouth Steam Railway General Discusssion.
BBC local news says it is being treated as arson.
21 Juli 2026 um 18:46 -
Steve antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
This is the second year that the NYMR has dropped to a five day week. Back in February 2025 I received an anomymous e-mail from someone claiming to be a member of paid staff which went into considerable detail regarding the challenges facing the...
21 Juli 2026 um 10:25 -
Steve gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Those lines are very different though. Lines like the MHR and Bluebell are not really in tourist hotspots, so there traffic tends to be steady all the time. Whereas lines like Swanage, WSR and, it seems, the NYMR are much more "peaky" with...
21 Juli 2026 um 10:15 -
Steve gefällt cksteams Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
A couple (or three) of key differences I feel the need to point out.... 1. The NYMR has demand for more operating days but cut them back as they weren't/aren't keeping up with infrastructure maintenance. The more trains they run the quicker they...
21 Juli 2026 um 08:33 -
Steve gefällt MikeParkin65s Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
My sister and family haven’t returned to the NYMR on their annual Whitby holiday for the second year in a row, reason being they got fed up with the prospect of ‘a dirty blue diesel’ being more likely to be at the head of their train than a...
20 Juli 2026 um 21:56 -
Steve gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
A friend used to live in a house that had won an architectural award. It demonstrated that winning awards and fitness for purpose are not necessarily correlated.
20 Juli 2026 um 21:55 -
Steve gefällt 60044s Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It is my understanding that copper fireboxes are less suitable for oil burning. it wears them out faster than steel. In pre-Nationalisation/BR days when there were plenty of spare engines and spare boilers around and there was much larger works...
20 Juli 2026 um 13:21 -
Steve antwortete auf das Thema Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
It may be operationally convenient and the NYMR and the Bluebell are two different railways but, if the NYMR experience is anything to go by, Joe Public does not like changing trains. For most they are comfortably settled in their seats and are...
20 Juli 2026 um 13:17 -
Steve antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
That’s a question that probably won’t be answered until there is a second oil fired loco. My view is that, if the burner and controls are essentially the same it wouldn’t be a separate ticket but that’s only a personal opinion.
19 Juli 2026 um 14:47 -
Steve antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Nothing that I'm aware of; it's simply a crewing problem, if problem is the right word. There are something like 150 drivers and firemen that all require to be trained up and that is never going to be a five minute job when you are talking about...
19 Juli 2026 um 11:15 -
Steve antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As you say, as long as a piece of string. A couple of days to cool down, a day to prepare for the washout, removing washout plugs, mudholes, etc, a day to do the actual washout followed by another day boxing up. Then there's the boiler to fill...
18 Juli 2026 um 22:55 -
Steve antwortete auf das Thema SVR General Discussion.
A cunning plan to divert things away from the current hot topic?:):):):)
18 Juli 2026 um 22:43
