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  1. ghost vond Flying Phil's post leuk in het topic Windcutter Wagons.

    To provide a summary, we are working on three wagons at Rothley, B560676 (Floor and fixed end etc), B573403 (floor etc replace), B590067 (formerly B279702) new floor etc. We hope to have all three completed this year. Meanwhile at Swithland,...

    14 aug 2026 om 20:43

  2. ghost vond 35B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    [My emphasis] The whole point of this, and previous, discussions is that the messaging about the role of ordinary members is not nurturing engagement.

    14 aug 2026 om 15:34

  3. ghost reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I don't believe that any member (of any railway society) has ever felt that, never mind communicated it in writing. Volunteers are a different matter.

    14 aug 2026 om 15:18

  4. ghost vond Steve's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    without going back and finding the posts, I'm pretty certain that you have on more than one occasion denigrated the general membership as more of a nuisance than an asset. Even now you are saying that their financial benefit to the railway is...

    14 aug 2026 om 15:16

  5. ghost reageerde op het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Well if you listen to Lineisclear, that person with the bequest is not that important because they are 'just' a member/supporter and he would rather time is spent chasing Arts Council grants than looking after the members and supporters who have...

    14 aug 2026 om 12:39

  6. ghost vond jnc's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    There's one aspect of bequests that's worth thinking about, it seems to me. It feels like part of the mess at the NYMR is ('was', really - it's over, now, mostly) a struggle over power. One faction/group (I'm not sure how many there are,...

    14 aug 2026 om 12:21

  7. ghost vond 35B's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I made no comment on their level of commitment. I describe them as third parties because they are independent organisations, not formally part of NYMR, and have their own pressures and drivers which may cause them to change approach to NYMR...

    14 aug 2026 om 12:20

  8. ghost vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    There is another way to look at it, which is that if 10% of your members volunteer (*), what could you do with another 200 volunteers if you could get that membership up to 10,000? (*) And actually I suspect that is a rather impressive ratio Tom

    14 aug 2026 om 12:18

  9. ghost vond 5944's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    But dismissing the membership out of hand isn't going to help either. Ignoring 50% of your annual donations is incredibly foolish. It sounds like you expect other bodies to give to money and grants whenever you ask for it, and you need that free...

    14 aug 2026 om 12:10

  10. ghost vond jnc's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    As you point out, many lines face this problem. However, most of them seem to have found a way to answer it. Why not the NYMR? You seem to be looking for an answer inside the usual 'business' box. Perhaps you need to think/look elsewhere - as...

    14 aug 2026 om 11:23

  11. ghost vond jnc's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    The recent NYMR Trust Strategic Plan was mostly marketing waffle, but did contain this pithy, brutally on-target, observation: "The Trust is dependent on its income from visitors and donors to fund its operations. It has no underpinning public...

    14 aug 2026 om 11:20

  12. ghost vond Sawdust's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Here is the very problem, an organisation addicted to tax payers money like it is crack! It sees no reason for reform of its gargantuan wage bill. I travelled on the railway for the first time in ages this year, in fact the last time was when...

    14 aug 2026 om 11:20

  13. ghost vond Jark91's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Yes I'm sure they'd all be very disturbed to see solid communication and mutual respect between management and members.

    14 aug 2026 om 11:18

  14. ghost vond Cuckoo Line's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Isn't someone here forgetting the financial saving of having volunteers doing some of the labouring. I asume to.be a volunteer you need to be a member if you had to replace them all by paid staff that would be a big hole to fill Sent from my...

    14 aug 2026 om 11:17

  15. ghost vond 5944's post leuk in het topic North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Are you saying the other 50% of contributions to appeals does come from members then?

    14 aug 2026 om 11:17
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