North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

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In a normal holiday week when open to Whitby are there as many as 107 people on the three Whitby trains at 0920,1000, and 1200?

I would imagine the total would normally be higher, especially the 0920, which may load 200 or more.

Thomas week will need around 1000 seats sold per day to match the normal income of the standard service. With 11 trains per day, that's 91 on every train, daily.
I've seen some afternoon trains with just 4 seats sold, so far, and very few with more than 70 sold. There's 5 days left to book online.

It all seems a bit high risk.

 

Ah, right, those could be used to apply upward force on the bridge structure.

Right, but how much load can they handle? I am concerned that the truss on the bottom now doesn't have the load-carrying capacity of the girder if the original drawings (although without a lot more information on both, it's impossible to say for sure).

The weight of the bridge's own structure (the 'dead load', in engineer-speak) is probably very considerable for a masonry bridge like this one; I would guess on the same order of magnitude as the train (the 'live load').

Noel