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Steve replied to the thread SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.
I'm in agreement.
Feb 17, 2019 at 9:09 PM -
Steve liked Jamessquared's post in the thread SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.
Judging by the wing plates, maybe Dunrobin? Tom
Feb 17, 2019 at 9:08 PM -
Steve replied to the thread West Somerset Railway Operations.
That's really the point. If it is not at the top you have to start searching. If I'm Joe Public scanning through looking for information and don't t realise I've got the wrong site, you've lost me. I do wonder if the front page could be a mirror...
Feb 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM -
Steve replied to the thread 60009 Best remembered moments.
Well 1 in 100 doesn't really count as a gradient,does it?
Feb 17, 2019 at 11:01 AM -
Steve replied to the thread West Somerset Railway Operations.
I don't fundamentally disagree with you, Roger. The NYMR has become quite commercialised. I'd say it has had to do that to survive. You only have to turn the clock back three or four years to see the parlous state it was in. The WSR is in a...
Feb 17, 2019 at 10:57 AM -
Steve replied to the thread West Somerset Railway Operations.
Simple questions: Does the WSR know who their current audience is? Have they any idea where the holes are and are they tryng to plug them? I've got the lurgi at the moment so have been looking at the Internet. Putting in West Somerset Railway...
Feb 17, 2019 at 10:45 AM -
Steve liked flying scotsman123's post in the thread Peak Rail Annual Report and Action Group.
Now steady on! Just because the management is next to useless, that doesn't take away any of the achievements of the volunteers over the past few decades. Given how much has been invested, it's got to be worth trying to save as a heritage railway.
Feb 16, 2019 at 1:45 PM -
Steve replied to the thread 35011 General Steam Navigation.
If I needed to build a set of tender frames, logic says I would build it for me rather than build it and then swap it for a second hand one, however authentic it might be. Unless someone paid me handsomely of course.
Feb 16, 2019 at 1:33 PM -
Steve liked Greenway's post in the thread West Somerset Railway Operations.
As far as the news. particularly local newspapers, concerning the WSR is concerned it seems to be that all too often the main content seems to be about continual squabbles. Squabbles within the WSR, squables with Minehead politicians and so...
Feb 16, 2019 at 8:52 AM -
Steve liked Jamessquared's post in the thread West Somerset Railway Operations.
That would mean the Minehead Chamber of Commerce getting engaged with the question "how do we encourage people to visit Minehead?" rather than their current inexplicable stance of "how do we make it easy for them to leave?" Viewed from afar,...
Feb 16, 2019 at 8:48 AM
