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Diamond Gaz liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It's pretty stark when you put it like that. When you look at the 2024 accounts, the staff costs alone (including pensions and NI) came to slightly under £10,000 per day, 365 days of the year. You'd better hope they sell a lot of keyrings! (To...
May 13, 2026 at 11:01 AM -
Diamond Gaz liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The NYMR doesn't need the teak coaches; that's true, but they sure as heck should want them.
May 13, 2026 at 4:58 AM -
Diamond Gaz liked FearOfManchester's post in the thread Stainmore Railway Company (Kirkby Stephen East).
There’s always something happening with these lot: No sooner have they put the finishing touches to the original S&D box, they’ve started the junction box! concrete foundations poured already: [ATTACH] A rare surviving NER coal hopper has...
May 13, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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Diamond Gaz liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
My reaction to the post by @black5 was that "at last" there is good news on this front. But I'm not going to give praise for fixing a situation that should never have arisen.
May 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM -
Diamond Gaz liked black5's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
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May 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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Diamond Gaz liked 5944's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
D5032 has followed the usual NYMR trend of being stripped for overhaul than progress has been glacial. I believe the plan was D5061 would go in for overhaul once D5032 was complete. D5061 was withdrawn in 2014, and D5032 had already been under...
May 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM -
Diamond Gaz liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with your analysis. You can add to that Antwerp and Meteor, which, although not owned by the NYMR, were on a run and repair arrangement. No. 5 may have been similar and let’s not forget the LNERCA teak...
May 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM -
Diamond Gaz liked banburysaint's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Part of the problem is the NYMR has a history of running an company engine and then being unable to progress the overhaul. 2253, 44806 were bought by supporters for the railway. The NYMR ran them and couldn't afford the overhaul, and sold them....
May 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM -
Diamond Gaz liked Respite's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I hope 80136 takes the place of 76079 in the shed at Pickering rather than being left outside for years.
May 12, 2026 at 1:59 PM -
Diamond Gaz liked torgormaig's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Sorry to see her go - a capable and user friendly loco and in my opinion well suited to the Moors, especially with the lighter trains that we seem to run theses days. But she does need a lot of money spending on her which it seems that Strathspey...
May 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM -
Diamond Gaz liked Sulzerman's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Omaha breaks cover on a test run Superb footage. [MEDIA]
May 9, 2026 at 8:15 AM
