If my memory is not failing me (which I cheerfully admit it might), ISTR people saying that the Whitby trains were a good share of the NYMR's...
Many good points here, especially including "do you start limiting station access in case the numbers do go over the threshold", but I'm not sure...
Exactly; 'good intentions' are one of the major illnesses of our age (post the onset of the Industrial Revolution). The old aphorism 'the road to...
Your introductory point is well taken. However, whether this particular income source will have a positive cost/benefit ratio, across the heritage...
Use of the CCBS structure seems to be fairly popular among heritage lines, now. Several others are in the process of conversion, too. (I could...
Maybe the NYMR marketing team is a matryoshka itself? Noel
Well, we've never seen that before in the heritage railway world, have we? Noel
When I'm posting things, or emailing to a large list, before I hit 'go', I always re-read what I wrote, asking myself 'how could a reader possibly...
And should be safe for the moment, as it's currently propped up! :-) Noel
They are fairly poor photos, taken at distance, from bad angles, but they are i) just about the only info publicly available on the topic, and ii)...
The structure of the bridge doesn't differentiate in any way between dead load and live load. (When doing finite element modelling of the bridge,...
Ah, right, those could be used to apply upward force on the bridge structure. Right, but how much load can they handle? I am concerned that the...
Which states that the "propping has been completed and [the] crane has been removed". I notice in looking at that image that the cross-river...
Here. Noel
Good point. Noel
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