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  1. Andy2857 vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic 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...

    9 jun 2025 om 15:40
  2. Andy2857 vond 1472's post leuk in het topic SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.

    So much assumption and confused thinking there! Where are the figures mentioned in the first sentence? How many folk are NOT now visiting because they find the current offering (disregarding the landslip) is no longer sufficiently attractive?...

    9 jun 2025 om 13:13
  3. Andy2857 vond 1472's post leuk in het topic SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.

    The cost of coal is not quite the issue which it was a while ago. Prices per tonne are now around half those quoted at the peak. The depressed passenger figures and the actual, rather mininmal steam offering are not entirely unrelated.

    8 jun 2025 om 09:24
  4. Andy2857 vond Wagoniester's post leuk in het topic 1589 "Newstead".

    Well, things have taken a huge step forward. On Monday it was crunch time as the boiler inspector came to do what we hoped would be the final steam test - and gave the boiler a clean bill of health! That could only mean one thing, and so today,...

    IMG-20250606-WA0002.jpg 6 jun 2025