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MikeParkin65 liked 5944's post in the thread Saphos 2025.
As I posted a couple of pages back, 9.5" of rain at Ribblehead in the last few weeks and a few hundred feet of lineside still got set alight. There's plenty of fresh growth, but there's still a lot of last year's dead foliage around. After this...
Jun 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM -
MikeParkin65 liked 30567's post in the thread Vintage Trains 2025.
I had a day out to Stratford yesterday. Not a bad schedule from Derby, just two stands at signal/loop on the way back. Particularly in the morning the schedule was quite demanding but as far as I could tell the tractor did nothing at all. Put it...
Jun 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM -
MikeParkin65 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
But as you carry fewer and fewer people, you end up spreading your fixed costs onto a smaller and smaller number of shoulders. The reductio ad absurdum of your approach might be to find a single person willing to pay £8m for a single return...
Jun 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM -
MikeParkin65 replied to the thread SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.
To be fair it wasnt a brilliant weekend weather wise and maybe also a dip in visitors following the recent 'festival of steam' ?
Jun 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM -
MikeParkin65 liked 5944's post in the thread SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.
If it's a 40s weekend, surely D306 should be out ;)
Jun 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM -
MikeParkin65 liked LMarsh1987's post in the thread Vintage Trains 2025.
I was told 77 at Bromsgrove and 28 over the top.
Jun 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM -
MikeParkin65 liked ficksberglion's post in the thread Vintage Trains 2025.
7029 gets away from Derby at Pear Tree with 1Z10 Derby to Stratford upon Avon.[ATTACH]
Jun 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
