North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

That's interesting. That will be a lot of lost revenue because those trains were previously for sale before Bridge 42 was delayed (with plenty of seats sold). But looking at the way they'd built the Yellow timetable there isn't a path. Maybe if they've put two trains in Goathland at some point you could squeeze it in, but you would be leaving one there awhile before the second one could get out again.

It will be top and tailed. This (https://www.nymr.co.uk/mixed-traction-footplate-experience) confirms that even if the timetable doesn't.

 

My suspicion is that a big Brio set would just be too much for them to work with meaningfully - they need something simpler!

 

Every service passes at Levisham so there's no chance of fitting a diner in the layover, unless you extend the times.

 

Thats what I meant really. The only way they could get the diner in would be to have two services essentially following each other to Goathland. Then leave one there while a third passes the first one on its return through Levisham. But it would mean a long layover by the second train at Goathland before the third one arrived to release it. Maybe OK for a regular passenger train, but you wouldn't want to be stuck on the Diner in the station with everyone watching you eat. But it would also then create a big gap between regular services. So I can see why its been scrapped, though they maybe could have moved it to evenings for that period (but likely at extra cost for signalman/crews etc)

 

Levisham is not that busy is it?
Swanage diners used to spend a while in Swanage station between the two trips, and I have stewarded trips where diners have been eating in water stops or loco swaps in a station. Maybe not ideal but not really an issue.

 

I think it was A B McLeod who used his Hornby train set to develop the timetable for the combined Isle of Wight railways in the 1920s

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Agree, but read in the context of the original post.....which said 'untapped market in the North of England'. Now if it had said North-East of England, or even t'other side of them there hills!

 

Thanks for the link, I like how they advertise 'you'll receive a bottle of water to take onto the footplate' spared no expense !

 

Does £300 just for a ride on the footplate not seem excessive, when the Bluebell charge £149 for a round trip and Swanage charge £365 for a driving experience.
Although I do not think either give you a bottle of water

 

There isn't. Unless one has magically appeared this week, that is.

 

And on the blue timetable they still haven't addressed the magical change from steam to diesel at Whitby in the afternoon...

 

In my day we simply got the person a cup of tea.

 

Pickering to Bury is under a 100 miles by car, which is how most families will travel to these events. I bet there is an overlapping market area in South/ West Yorkshire conurbations. When we used to do Thomas events at Tenterden we used to get customers doing day trips from both France and particularly Belgium. The events in the SouthEast used to be co-ordinated so they didnt clash, Tenterden to Alton is the same distance with an overlap from South London.