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jon5051 liked 60044's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
What the NYMR really needs, I suggest, is not a "head of people" but a "head of motivation" - rather like a roman emperor - but not whispering "remember you are mortal" in the ear of the CEO and other members of the SMT, but rather "remember...
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jon5051 liked Cuckoo Line's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
From our point of view when the timetable says steam and diesel would be good to know which is scheduled steam and which is scheduled diesel. If the rostered motive power is changed due to.iperstipnal issues well living on GWR mainline we are...
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jon5051 liked acorb's post in the thread LE movements, ECS and test runs 2025.
If this was a railtour with paying passengers I would understand your argument, but given this is a loco movement back to base then I am afraid time, convenience and money will be the main factors here. I doubt West Coast gave the slightest...
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jon5051 liked dan.lank's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
If people have genuinely been aggressive with staff when loco changes have happened, there’s no question that’s awful. I don’t think anybody on here would condone that sort of behaviour. But the question remains, if it’s so difficult to provide...
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jon5051 liked Sidmouth's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Thinking back to the the Great Yorkshire Steam Railway , whilst I appreciate made for TV there is a level of manufactured near crisis to be saved at the last minute, those involved at times came across almost as Perry/croft comedy characters ....
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jon5051 liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
https://www.nymr.co.uk/news/fire-risk-restrictions "Update: 19/04/2025 20:40 We will be running all services with diesel locomotives until further notice." To make it super confusing, the banner at the top of the page states "We are OPEN...
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jon5051 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Heritage Railways, are they in trouble, generally?.
Coming back to @Steve's question - "Or perhaps rather than look on the gloomy side, which railways are doing relatively well?" - and also picking up on what one might, charitably, call the "business realist" school of pronouncements from some in...
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