MellishR's Recent Activity
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MellishR liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
It hardly seems beyond the whit of man to be able to inform the guard before departure whether they are on the final service, or the penultimate one! That said, I'm surprised there is that level of what is basically operational detail in a...
Jul 31, 2026 at 9:28 AM -
MellishR replied to the thread Oil Firing.
Can someone elaborate about the roof stays please. How can you not need stays between inner and outer fireboxes?
Jul 31, 2026 at 9:24 AM -
MellishR replied to the thread East Lancashire Railway.
How do those practices affect someone (like me) who occasionally follows a link to a Facebook page but has no Facebook account?
Jul 30, 2026 at 5:54 PM -
MellishR replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I thought "the latest bout" was move to much more co-operation.
Jul 30, 2026 at 5:35 PM -
MellishR liked LMS2968's post in the thread Oil Firing.
Indeed. The oil firing plans were, to say the least, odd since all the oil would need to be imported and Britain had little in the way of reserves to buy anything from abroad. A lot of money was spent installing the oil storage and refueling...
Jul 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM -
MellishR liked 60044's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Quite so. Everyone tends to focus on specifics of language or organisational details, but the reality is that there are potential opportunities there, and the NYMR doesn't seem to have a clue about ideas for taking advantage of them. Forget...
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:46 AM -
MellishR liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
@5944’s post and my response seem to have sparked a lot of comment. I used the term park and ride and period shouldn’t have. What I think both of us are saying is than opportunity has been missed. The end of October is unlikely to be a time when...
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:46 AM -
MellishR liked Musket The Dog's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think the counter to that point is that at this event, this isn't a crowd necessaraily going for a day out in Whitby. They are there for the goth weekend, which happens to be in Whitby. In a similar vein to the argument about the CVR and the...
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:42 AM -
MellishR liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I think people are getting hung up on the term “park and ride”. Does the NYMR provide a sensible park and ride service to Whitby in the sense you’d understand it in other major cities? Of course not, it couldn’t provide a viable service on...
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:40 AM -
MellishR liked Gladiator 5076's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
They seem to have their own park and ride, so unless someone really wanted a train ride would they not just park there? £50 each certainly adds to the cost of attending. The Whitby P&R seems to run at 30 minutes intervals through to 18:30 so...
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:38 AM -
MellishR liked jnc's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It all depends on the personal situation of each group of passengers. Someone who is well off (and can thus afford the fare), and who has several small children with them, or has some other mobility constraint (and thus can't walk a long way),...
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:37 AM -
MellishR liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It depends whether the train is pure park & ride (in which case I agree), or part of the day out (in which case the equation is different). And that is the whole challenge about Pickering to Whitby traffic in a nutshell, as the boundary is blurred
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:32 AM -
MellishR liked Pete Thornhill's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I’m not entirely sure what point you are making as there is already one running on a completely different, (more substantial) railway, which is as scenic as the L&B so apart from overhaul periods the MW’s will never be unique to North Devon....
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:28 AM -
MellishR liked Bikermike's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
How many devoted manning wardle fans do you think there are? And how many of them will come more than once if ticking off MW haulage is their aim?
Jul 30, 2026 at 7:27 AM
