North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Lack of trains and lack of facilities won't help. Miss your train and can be a two or three hour wait for the next one. Is it promoted that much these days? Dalby Forest a few miles away offers much more for people who want to walk around a forest, either doing fun touristy things or more secluded walks. There's no information about tickets on the website either - I assume if you're starting from Pickering you'll need a two-stop ticket as you're travelling beyond Levisham. That's £24.95 return for an adult. A whole day parking at Dalby Forest is 15 quid and you don't need to wee in a bush.

 

Get the trains right, and that deals with a lot of the issues. But that comes back to being able to market the railway effectively across the range of attractions

 

A very significant share of the people who are buying seats on heritage lines are 'ordinary people' (i.e. 'not us'). What do they think? I'm not sure, but I have to think that, for an ordinary person, steam trains are a big part of the picture of the UK at the start of the Industrial Revolution - when the UK had more of an impact om the rest of the world than almost any other time. That gives a steam train an extra little push, in terms of 'what shall we do today'.

Noel