North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

I believe no Half Term running.

 

I'd be surprised if they run any trains through Grosmont before May.

Obviously, hoping they'll manage by Easter.

 

Confirmed on the NYMR web site: "UPDATE 02/01 - The Autocar has now been repaired and will be running services as planned this weekend. After that, we’ll be closed until March. Don’t forget to join our mailing list for the latest NYMR news and service announcements. Happy New Year, and thank you for travelling with us."

 

Some fantastic photos and videos of stock moves along the railway this week.

257 Squadron is heading home, and 92134 is going to the GCR on holiday.

 

Where are they?

 

People might be interested in some pictures of Mondays stock moves in "interesting " conditions. First off New Bridge was 44806 leading 37688, 47077 (dead) and No.29, followed later by 37264 with two tenders (Q6 and S160) and a brakevan. We travelled through Newtondale to Goathland in a heavy snowstorm. At Goathland the FPL (point lock) would not budge so we had to shunt back to use the up loop. Fortunately the trap point was moveing freely so it was clipped and scotched (oh, what fun S&T had doing that in deep snow). From here we were in an engineers possession and were authorised to proceed at 5 mph to the possession limit just beyond the outer home signal. The reason for the caution was that nothing had been down the hill for at least three weeks so the railhead was expected to be greasy and at the bottom of the incline there was a missing rail. Not a move to take any chances. 37264 followed us through the possession also at 5 mph and when it eventually arrived behind us P.Way set to reinstating the short missing section of track - that is once all the chair keys had been located under the cover of snow. Eventually we proceeded onto the depot over the slewed section at 2 mph.

Here I swapped from the Black Five to the Bulleid Pacific for the run back to New Bridge. The return was made up of 31466 leading 92134, 34072 and a brakevan. When we eventually set off we could go at line speed uphill to exit the possession at Goathland. From there we travelled under normal token authotity to Levisham before the P.Way Manager who was travelling with us took a possession of the whole line from Goathland to New Bridge and we travelled forward under his authority. Despite a lot of hanging around and waiting for things to happen it was an interesting and unusual day

Peter

 

Those are the best days! Anything out of the ordinary is worth chasing, IMHO. You often get a good camaraderie, “all in it together” sort of vibe.

Tom

 

Guess which one of the staff is Mark?

 

That's it in a nutshell, Tom. Great days.

You can tell how cold it was as unusually he wasn't wearing his customary all weather shorts

Thanks Alan, I glad you enjoyed it. Certainly plenty of time to take pictures.

Peter

 

As a shandy drinker Id definately be on about 4 layers topped with hi vis romper suit in that.