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Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Dynamic pricing only works if there is no alternative if you want to do a particular thing, such as watch a one day performance in your area. If there are alternatives, people will seek out the cheaper ones. Or not bother.
Oct 30, 2026 at 12:28 PM -
Steve liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I get this but will spare myself the 22 minutes of YouTube. However, that then puts the focus sharply onto the quality of stakeholder engagement - the impact of the very welcome YouTube video is undermined by the lack of substance in what was...
Oct 30, 2026 at 12:25 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
AGM's used to be interesting and lively events with a packed Memorial Hall. They were a social event well worth going to and the various presentations were informative and gave food for thought. This weeks AGM was affectively a cowards way of...
Oct 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I have it in good authority that the main reason for five day running for the last two years is to give the railway a better chance of getting through the season by reducing the wear and tear on track and infrastructure and give the MPD a chance...
Oct 30, 2026 at 12:17 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Wow! I have a day out and about and I come back to over 30 posts. you keep trotting out the 'what's matters is generating surplus' line and ignoring everything else associated with it. Did the CEO learn it from you or did you learn it from her?...
Oct 30, 2026 at 12:05 PM -
Steve liked Kirk Oswald's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The contributions of both the outgoing Trust Chairman and the PLC Director were woeful and symtomatic of the incompetence and complacency which has brought the line to it's knees. The incoming Chair of Trustees was slightly more hopeful though I...
Oct 30, 2026 at 11:57 AM -
Steve liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
What's even more baffling than shutting the line for two days in half term is that it's open next week for two days for the diner to run. I also notice that you can book a table of 4 for two people and pay £45 for each empty seat. That means the...
Oct 29, 2026 at 4:02 PM -
Steve liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
@Jamessquared is absolutely right about pricing off demand - it's a bizarre strategy that will narrow the demand base when one of the key challenges is how to keep demand as broad as possible More generally, you make a very significant...
Oct 29, 2026 at 3:59 PM -
Steve liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
An ex company Chairman of ours was quite keen on pointing out that many of our passengers had spent Monday - Friday standing on crowded trains going to work, and didn't want to repeat the experience as part of their leisure. A consequence of...
Oct 29, 2026 at 3:50 PM -
Steve liked torgormaig's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There is nothing like seeing what you want to see, is there. If you had been there this week there was widespread comment among the staff that the current set up is crazy. Why force people to travel in uncomfortable over crowded conditions on...
Oct 29, 2026 at 12:11 PM -
Steve liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The objective is fine. @torgormaig sums up my view of what it is to turn good demand away; I just find it incredible that there is a willingness to turn away profitable business, and the opportunity to put cash in the bank.
Oct 29, 2026 at 12:11 PM -
Steve liked D7076's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Two very busy days at NYMR . Many Whitby trains had plenty of passengers standing and even the first train ex Whitby had no empty bays by Grosmont . How much revenue will not be earned in the next two days ? 4079 on Alleleys trailer this...
Oct 29, 2026 at 8:04 AM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Sounds good for income. However the NYMR’s CDL exemption says that they can’t carry more passengers over the EVL than there are seats. I wonder if they try and enforce it or just ignore it?
Oct 29, 2026 at 8:04 AM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Enjoy it, Peter. :)
Oct 27, 2026 at 11:20 PM
