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  1. Andy2857 支持 JamessquaredNorth Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2025-06-09 , 15:40
  2. Andy2857 支持 1472SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions 内发表的帖子.

    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?...

    2025-06-09 , 13:13
  3. Andy2857 支持 1472SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions 内发表的帖子.

    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.

    2025-06-08 , 09:24
  4. Andy2857 支持 Wagoniester1589 "Newstead" 内发表的帖子.

    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 2025-06-06