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Matt78 liked RWJP's post in the thread Fire Risk and Preserved Lines.
Not speaking from any position of knowledge or expertise but I presume there's a wide variety of reasons. Risk appetite is no doubt one of them, aversion to negative press could be another (see Kingscross' post above). Nature of the vegetation...
Jul 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM -
Matt78 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Fire Risk and Preserved Lines.
Lots of diesel substitution, but also other railways still continuing with steam. On the Bluebell we have three steam services this weekend, as pretty much every weekend this year. (In fact four locos this weekend, as 65 and 72 are double...
Jul 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM -
Matt78 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There's two overlapping questions in there: storage and exhibition are not the same thing. In particular, an exhibition space, for a given amount of storage, will be more expensive to build. Firstly that is because of the need to have circulation...
Jul 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
