North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Diverted via A169 and not serving Goathland.

 

I went up to visit the N.Y.M.R. and accidently booked on the optimist service dep pickering at 12pm but i dident realise its steam only as far as Grosmont and the class 25 silbya to whitby and ret to Grosmont in the afternoon and the steam service runs on the morning train but anyhow not a bad day out in whitby 92134 doing the honours of pulling our train to and from Grosmont and managed to get fish and chips in whitby

 

https://www.nymr.co.uk/optimist

Interesting to see the line is now open through the first half of November.

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Hopefully the NYMR are in the next round ( £1m-plus) grants from the Culture recovery fund. ( The SVR got £901k I recall)

Did the NYMR benefit from the earlier Heritage Lottery money ( max £250k) by any chnce?

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And the Pickering to Whitby service now running to the end of November (except Thursday/ Friday).

 

A few of images from the final two running days, Tuesday and Wednesday ahead of the second lockdown:










Richard

 

And to one up on Richard/wessa588 above.-



The 9 on the shuttle has shades of the service on the Alnwick branch in the sixties when they had one of the "Consett" 9s with a pair of Westinghouse Air Pumps fitted, on the right hand side half way along the running board, to operate the doors of the iron ore hoppers on the service.

 

9F departing Grosmont the day before lockdown on the penultimate Rail Trail shuttle to Goathland.

 

And this same train in full cry at Esk Valley......

Peter

 

Great news for the NYMR:

One of the UK’s most popular attractions, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, has been awarded a lifeline £1.94million grant from Arts Council England’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, that will make a significant impact in securing a future for the heritage charity, and keep it steaming through 2021 and beyond.
Chris Price, General Manager at NYMR comments: “Let’s face it, 2020 has been a whirlwind of a year, and there has been so much uncertainty. Here at NYMR we’ve launched a number of crisis appeals and had to call on the generosity of members of the public to help us pull through and it’s been bloody tough, but we’ve made it this far.
“But I can’t tell you the sigh of relief we’ve breathed today after receiving the news from Arts Council England that we’ve been awarded such a significant grant. It will enable us to continue to offer a safe, revised service and build back to our 300,000 annual visitors as well as secure jobs and our heritage skills.
“It’s a real testament to the work that we do to have recognition of the importance of NYMR to the region, both economically and culturally. It also means our Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey (YMJ) project can carry on, enabling us to continue with building our conservation and heritage apprenticeship programmes, our lineside ecological conservation work, offer fuss free access for disabled visitors, grow our learning offer at Pickering and Goathland, and of course reach out to individuals, groups and communities to share our passion for the history of the region through steam travel.
“Thank you to Arts Council England and the Culture Recovery Fund.”
For more information about NYMR visit nymr.co.uk/

 

I'm lead to believe that, the Lottery have made an additional small grant [of around £200k] over and above the YMJ grant. To aid the replacement bridge work on bridges 24+25 at Goathland.....

 

More good news for an NYMR based organisation:

LNERCA awarded £38,000
The LNER Coach Association is most pleased to announce an award of £38,000 from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. This much needed finance will enable us to resume work in conserving and restoring some of our priceless collection of heritage railway carriages. It also gives us the opportunity to develop the sharing of our heritage skill sets with local technical colleges, and the chance to attract a wider range of volunteers. It is going to make a real difference to our activities in 2021 and beyond. The LNERCA is grateful to the Cultural Recovery Fund for supporting us in our aims. Post lockdown you will be able to visit our workshop at Pickering and see our work in progress.
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Certainly good news all round for the Moors and it's affiliated groups.......!

 

£296k

 

Yup Bryan it's 296k. Though I was just remarking as to a general figure, should have said 300k....... as the closer figure.

 

Excellent work from the various application-writing teams! Especially coming so soon after the YMJ success, and not that long after the Bridges & Wheels awards from other bodies. it just shows what can be done with the right set-up and people - the WSR Plc should take note.

 

See announcement on local BBC this evening.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...oS2PJGOcv0_QbkBkRDolHlYmbIhqI8b-RRCVPuwVHIwbg

 

A reminder of the NYMR in 1992, now on my new YouTube channel:



Hope it's of interest.

 

Afternoon All,

A further instalment of my NYMR video taken in 1992 is now on YouTube. Here's the link if you'd like to have a look:



Hope it's of interest.

 

As seen on a recent facebook post, Carriage and Waggon staff have begun fitment of Retention Tank Toilets to some of the railway's MK1 coaching stock.