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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 -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
A diesel loco is definitely cheaper to run whilst it runs. However, when it comes to a major overhaul, that is when the problems will start to arise. Steam loco engineering is basically simple engineering and, as has been shown, nothing that is...
Aug 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM -
Steve liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Didn't use to be a problem is the key. Lots of things have changed in the last 20+ years. Worse roads, more deer, brighter headlights, wider cars while roads have stayed the same width; (whisper it quietly) probably a less strict attitude to...
Aug 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
As I've said on more than one occasion on this thread, there are logistical problems in running the lunchtime diner out of Pickering. There was once a plan to have a third platform at Pickering (an extended Beck Siding) but this fell by the...
Aug 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM -
Steve replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Back in the day, for train crew, working the evening diner was THE turn and there was never a shortage of crew to man it. Not sure about signalmen and catering staff but they were largely volunteers and I don't think it was much of a problem in...
Aug 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM -
Steve liked Trevor Beglin's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
They do want to travel behind a steam locomotive but the lack of flexibility in the 60163 only fares, a return trip that doesn't amount to a full day out or offer Whitby as an option or a hefty premium close to a full line rover they'd have to...
Aug 2, 2026 at 5:38 PM -
Steve liked Sulzerman's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think when they book they hope for steam. They also want Whitby. They're putting up with diesel for the sake of the journey.
Aug 2, 2026 at 5:34 PM -
Steve liked Jimc's post in the thread Oil Firing.
Umm, whatever the technical merits, a solution that requires the operator to keep a coal storage and distribution infrastructure alongside the new oil one is a lot less than ideal from the POV of logistics.
Aug 2, 2026 at 9:27 AM
