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Steve liked Jonnie's post in the thread Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
Preservation is all about working together. Yesterday evening, I popped over from the Spa Valley Railway and spent some time at the Bluebell, re-familiarising and assessing two of their Driver Inspectors on Hastings Diesels Limited's Class 201...
Aug 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As I keep saying, it is crewing that is the main reason why 2253 is not being used more. Having said that, I’m getting vibes that its performance isn’t as good as hoped for.
Aug 5, 2026 at 7:30 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It sure is. Scotland is even worse than the south. :)
Aug 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It looks like my informant was premature with this as the decision was later taken to use a diesel due to the fire risk. 60163 seems to be still Ok, though! Tomorrow (Wed) might see 2253 on the diner.
Aug 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM -
Steve liked cksteam's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The Bridge 42 saga just keeps giving. In the latest Moors line there's a piece about it as you would expect. In it they give the updated fundraising target of £950k, split between the two phases. Phase 1 was the temporary propping 'Has...
Aug 4, 2026 at 3:51 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
An extended beck siding should easily accommodate five coaches. I’ve no idea behind the desire to extend it, if that actually is the case. It may simply be a case of reconnecting it and nothing else.
Aug 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There's nothing wrong in what you have said. Gibg back into the late 70's/early 80's there was a plan to extend the siding over the beck to make a bay platform principly for stabling the diner. Thi would have required some form of bridge and I...
Aug 3, 2026 at 8:34 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I believe Repton is out on the diner tomorrow. Time was when annual steam mileage was 60k +. This year you can probably knock a nought off that.
Aug 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM -
Steve liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Except they're a couple of diesel failures away from cancelling services again. The travelling public seem to be accepting the use of diesels at the moment due to the weather, although that's not the reason the NYMR are using them.
Aug 3, 2026 at 7:00 PM -
Steve liked jnc's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
If the genuine take of people (some with considerable experience on successful heritage lines, to inform their thinking) is that the NYMR has management issues, what are they supposed to do, say nothing? This thread actually has recently had...
Aug 3, 2026 at 12:56 PM -
Steve liked 60044's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As one of the most highly critical posters about NYMR management, I take your point, and actually I think that most of the management are doing their very best under difficult circumstances, with minimal resources, but I remain firmly of the...
Aug 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM -
Steve liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
One of the biggest problems is that hire fees for diesels aren't anywhere near that of steam either, due to the perceived cheaper running costs. I've heard of some diesel locos being paid £100 a day. You could barely even get a steam loco warm...
Aug 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
If you travel to the North York Moors by road from various directions you will see the brown tourist attraction signs. They don’t point the direction to the NYMR, they simply say ‘Steam Railway’. The NYMR must have agreed that wording when they...
Aug 2, 2026 at 8:58 PM
