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  1. Jamessquared reageerde op het topic SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.

    It's an interesting thought, though an obvious immediate concern is that you might then have an interesting PR situation on your hands if a steam loco failed and you had to substitute a diesel at short notice, after many people had paid the...

    10 jun 2025 om 21:32

  2. Jamessquared vond 21B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    An interesting observation. I have said before I think the HRA could do something useful here in advertising all HRs, but that on its own isn’t enough. There are huge swathes of people out there who don’t even know it’s possible to ride behind a...

    10 jun 2025 om 17:48

  3. Jamessquared vond iowcr3429's post leuk in het topic Isle of Wight Steam Railway Carriage and Wagon updates.

    It could well be that the storage site is full at the moment. There are a number of wagons I would like to get onto the restoration queue but at the moment there is the tram and 2 coaches to finish off to free up the space in the carriage works....

    10 jun 2025 om 12:13

  4. Jamessquared vond torgormaig's post leuk in het topic Paddle Steamer Waverley.

    I am very impressed by the distances she covers around our coastline. They seem very keen on exposeing her to as large an audiance as possible. I was on her only a fortnight ago sailing past the Ardnamurchan peninsular on her final Hebridean...

    IMG_7302 copy.jpg 9 jun 2025 om 22:24

  5. Jamessquared vond 21B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I think what tends to happen is that general problems get discussed with a specific line as exemplar. I think you’re right that the Moors is not particularly unusual. My impression is that actually things are brighter this year on the whole. I...

    9 jun 2025 om 16:46

  6. Jamessquared reageerde op 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 14:56

  7. Jamessquared vond 35B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I'm making no assumption about specific fare levels. My observation is from a completely different place, which is that I think the numbers of people visiting are a key metric, and that there is a fundamental question about the absolute numbers...

    9 jun 2025 om 14:39

  8. Jamessquared 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 12:49

  9. Jamessquared reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I'm not suggesting part gift-aided donation and part purchase - I'm suggesting tiers, all of which could allow Gift Aid. Coming back to my Salisbury Cathedral option, as far as I can see I can book entry (£11) and a stone mason tour as a bolt on...

    9 jun 2025 om 12:48

  10. Jamessquared reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    The journey clearly isn’t indivisible though, because there are intermediate station where you can board and alight! Indeed, I think you could make a very strong argument that it is only by getting on and off that you could genuinely see the...

    9 jun 2025 om 12:10

  11. Jamessquared reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Did the NYMR ever explore whether a Gift Aid, “Grosmont - Pickering only” fare was available in addition to the Whitby -Pickering? You’ve made much play on the HMRC deeming that the price had to include viewing the “whole” work of the charity,...

    9 jun 2025 om 11:48

  12. Jamessquared vond 1472's post leuk in het topic SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.

    OK we have a one day subjective survey taken yesterday on the GWSR and the near daily observations of Southernman99. The point is not which is cheaper to run (all heritage workings would be by DMU if that was the sole consideration) but which...

    9 jun 2025 om 09:43
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