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North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by The Black Hat, Feb 13, 2011.

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  1. paul1609

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    Down south this is a pretty common occcurence, for the K&ESR the Santa season is a high earning potential in the past we've hired coaches from the Swanage, West Somerset and East Lancs probably others Ive forgotten. i think the Spa Valley hired coaches from West Coast for their Polar Express last year.
     
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    Anecdotally I’ve heard Spa Valley are hiring a carriage from the Bluebell this winter.

    Tom
     
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    I saw Piglet on TV last night on More 4 Chan 18.
    Another episode of Steam Trains.
    A lot of complimentary comments about the GWSR
    More to come in the next weeks,
     
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    It is not simply the track that is the problem but the land that is subsiding. There's a question over who is responsible as Network Rail own the land at Grosmont. it is only leased by the NYMR.
     
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    The gate is the original installed around 2001. It has received a number of repairs but we eventually had to replace it owing to rot on the main beams. So 20/25 years would appear to be the benchmark.
     
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    That's not bad really. I wonder how my windows and doors are doing?

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    https://www.railengineer.co.uk/bridge-renewal-at-goathland/

    Looks a lot more than 200mm difference in height between the two lines in @torgormaig's photo.
     
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    I'm deliberately not being obtuse here, just a little slow. But this height discrepancy is enough to allegedly cause damage to the Teak set?
     
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    I believe it did, causing the bogie springs to "bottom out" and the bogie underframes toc catch rivet heads on the underframe, and start wearing them away
     
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    Rivets on the tops of the bogies, were being damaged striking the underframes. Video cameras were used to monitor what was happening and an additional speed restriction was put in place to reduce the bounce and the damage no longer occurs.

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    Thank you Sawdust. I cant grasp that the job was done and managed to such a standard that its damaging in such a fashion.
     
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