MellishR's Recent Activity
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MellishR odgovara u temi Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News.
Yes we are strange creatures. Much that we do is highly irrational in the eyes of others. I spend a lot of time watching videos about all sorts of things but I am very intolerant of music unless it really is "background" and very quiet, or...
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MellishR odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There seems some uncertainty as to what steam locos were available for traffic and therefore how much steam operation there might have been in the absence of fire risk; but anyway in some periods there was hardly any apart from Tornado. Insofar...
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MellishR liked Sawdust's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Peat moorland damaged by fire in the NYMNP, the fires of 1976, still haven't fully recovered. So the risk is genuine, but it is no less genuine for more expensive steam trains. If it was too risky to run normal steam trains then it was too risky...
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MellishR liked 73108's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Much as I also disagree with much of what @Lineisclear says*, I think it's perhaps disingenuous to suggest - hypothetically or not - that there 'never was' a steam ban. We all saw what happened elsewhere in the country this summer. Not only do I...
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MellishR liked 21B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think the general feeling seems to be that fire risk was a convenient cover story for the underlying situation that no steam engines were available and that that was a consequence of one or two factors, lack of people to maintain and/or lack of...
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MellishR liked green five's post in the thread LE movements, ECS and test runs 2026.
They were really testing out the 8F yesterday as can be seen in this video posted on Youtube. What a sound from 48151! [MEDIA]
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MellishR liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Regardless of SSSI designations, I agree in principle with this. What I find harder to follow is how that position reconciles with the railway's use of steam, especially Tornado, before the weather changed. The impression left, fairly or...
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MellishR liked Bikermike's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.
Not if you stagger the welds. If you really go to town, you can probably get a complicated 5:4 time signature and reveal all the jazz enthusiasts as the only ones who can keep up...
22. Rujan 2026. u 11:42 -
MellishR liked Flying Phil's post in the thread Spa Valley Railway - Latest News.
Thank you Jonnie for your detailed replies and financial information. I'm sure this will show many people the complex reality of running our Heritage Railways. An unenviable job being a GM....But it obviously can bring some great satisfactions -...
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MellishR odgovara u temi West Somerset Railway General Discussion.
And whether the loco is stabling at Penzance or on the Bodmin and Wenford has what relevance to this particular thread?
22. Rujan 2026. u 11:40 -
MellishR liked Flying Phil's post in the thread Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News.
This recent discussion highlights a very important issue - How do you communicate with such a disparate audience? Many of us are the older generation (Boomers) who were brought up in the print and public TV age (BBC television/radio). Then we had...
22. Rujan 2026. u 11:38 -
MellishR odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Even if some of us find some of your arguments unconvincing, I for one am grateful that you are back here presenting them. A bit more transparency from those who remain on the management team would be extremely welcome but seems extremely unlikely.
22. Rujan 2026. u 11:36 -
MellishR liked jnc's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I understand your desire to defend the current leadership, but may I respectfully (really; I am not being at all sarcastic/ironic) suggest that your effort to do so is a waste of your time (which I also expect you currently have a far more...
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MellishR liked 60044's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
There are examples in the past of items that were scrapped despite not being owned by the NYMR - a set of 4 axles owned by the LNERCA with good tyres that "disappeared" in one drive They weren't recognised as being for Mk 1s by the "expert" and...
22. Rujan 2026. u 11:19
