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  1. MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I think enticing people to get out at intermediate stations will always be difficult, unless there is an absolutely compelling reason to get out there. (Such as Highley on the Severn Valley). If someone gets out and the station occupies them for...

    23 Aug 2026 la 16:23

  2. MellishR a plăcut postul lui The_Rail_WAy în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Just heard a steam train heading into Whitby for the first time in weeks, sounding like it was working very hard also. I went online to look at the loco roster to read no steam services are running due to fire risk! In addition to this we have...

    23 Aug 2026 la 16:17

  3. MellishR a plăcut postul lui Dead Sheep în subiectul Rother Valley Railway.

    You'll be reaching Headcorn at this rate

    23 Aug 2026 la 16:16

  4. MellishR a plăcut postul lui S.A.C. Martin în subiectul 35025 Brocklebank Line.

    Please do be patient with us as we work out the details. I have noted my inbox and responded as best I can but have and will continue to refer people to the press statement above and to refer to our communications officer. Please do not reach...

    23 Aug 2026 la 16:05

  5. MellishR a răspuns la subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I understand the reasons for wishing to rebuild and operate the L&B as closely as possible to how it was during its short life, not least the ENPA's conditions. However viability of the rebuilt line will depend on bums on seats (as well as other...

    23 Aug 2026 la 15:57

  6. MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I was explicitly writing in the context of a "one railway" solution, i.e. what you might need to operate the current railway, or any extension of that railway that is feasible within the lifetime of such a policy. If a "two railway" operation was...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:42

  7. MellishR a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Firstly, you may want to consider where @Jamessquared volunteers... Second, you may want to consider how documents like that come into being - and it's not as tablets of stone from on high. I've been an armchair member there for ~25 years,...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:40

  8. MellishR a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    In choice terms, the policy proposed is consistent with the sort of approach you've advocated for NYMR, in which preference is given to "authentic" locomotives rather than requiring strict local heritage compliance. As an ordinary member, I...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:37

  9. MellishR a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Which takes us to the age old question of whether it's hp or TE that matters for running a railway. I'd tend to go with hp as a better measure of operational performance rather than outright pulling power. All of which is taken care of in...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:35

  10. MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I'd like to see the 10,000hp narrow gauge loco! Being serious, I'd say having "unwritten rules" does not cut it: that is the gap through which all sorts of unsuitable ideas can germinate. So if it doesn't exist, sooner or later you are going to...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:34

  11. MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    No, although I suspect there are a few who would not be averse to acquiring some - if only as "proof we are in the big league now, we've got a siding of rusty future projects". I'm sure we've all been to lines where, had the "guide to the line"...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:28

  12. MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Thanks. We took a couple of trips either side of lunch, and - having spent the previous week in Cornwall - my wife and I split the difference on the correct sequence of scone / cream / jam for lunch in between! I think what really struck me was...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:26

  13. MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I dropped in and paid a first visit yesterday on our way back from holiday, so a few impressions. Firstly, on the positive side - the setting of Woody Bay is divine, and the place oozes SR atmosphere. [ATTACH] The necessary additions that...

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  14. MellishR a plăcut postul lui LMS2968 în subiectul BR Double blastpipes.

    A stated aim of the BR Standard designs was to maintain rather than improve on the performances of existing pre-nationalisation classes and not necessarily to improve on their fuel consumption either. The Britannias were intended to compare with...

    22 Aug 2026 la 11:16
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