In my experience of heritage railways, heavily discounting the standard fare price does not increase the overall annual fare income. Any...
The problem with offering regular discounts such as this, is that potential passengers will expect them to be offered every time they purchase a...
The ideal solution, and the one that has been used for the last 40 or more years at the SVR, is not to hold the Spring Steam Gala on Easter...
To be fair Martin, this is the first time ever that the spring steam gala has ever been held at Easter. I understand the reasons behind the clash...
Directors are usually there to decide overall strategy. The GM/CEO and their mangement team (paid or volunteer) run the departments and manage the...
Fair comment. However in terms of getting an effective GM/CEO it perhaps becomes more important to have someone who can take the railway's...
The chap who suffered life-changing injuries falling from height was actually a member of the full-time paid staff on the railway concerned....
My point was that the three railways mentioned do not seem to be experiencing any substantial drop-off in volunteer numbers, and they also seem to...
Examples that come to mind of heritage railways that seem to hit the sweet spot that you describe, are the KWVR, GWSR, and the Ffestiniog & Welsh...
At the SVR, safety critical medicals take place on the railway, at the Kidderminster office, and are undertaken by GPs who volunteer their time.
Perhaps not, but most heritage railways have their competency assessments performed by volunteers, and many have volunteer doctors that carry out...
The costs of producing the house magazine must have increased when it was decided to take the editorship away from the volunteer who had been...
Do HMRC agree with your interpretation of this?
This document published by Visit England provides a concise summation of the rules on gift aid for charitable attractions.
Party bookings are not eligble for gift aid. Anyone who is not a UK taxpayer is ineligible to sign up for gift aid. Once the NYMR moves away from...
I seriously doubt that you will get anything like a 70% take-up of gift aid on a £49.50 day ticket, voucher offer or not. In my experience a 20 -...
There was the Port Erin Breakwater contract in 1863 which used a loc0 named 'Henry B Loch'. [ATTACH]
Fair enough. Although I am prepared to believe that there might be one or two concerns that operate without such an order for whatever reason, I...
Can you please provide some examples of the many heritage railways that operate without a TWAO or LRO?
In my experience, heritage railways are only too delighted to publish passenger figures when they are good, but suddenly become very secretive...
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