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MellishR a plăcut postul lui cksteam în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It is a consideration but they already blank out carriages from online booking, I assume expecting walk ups on the day. You could still have the book seats deal with particular carriages saved for the 'rover' option. You could also stick a limit...
4 Aug 2026 la 07:49 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui cksteam în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Just looking back at the Tornado loadings during this visit I'm wondering whether there was opportunity to try something different. Apologies if this has been mentioned already but I haven't waded through every post I've missed over the last few...
4 Aug 2026 la 07:49 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui jnc în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
If the genuine take of people (some with considerable experience on successful heritage lines, to inform their thinking) is that the NYMR has management issues, what are they supposed to do, say nothing? This thread actually has recently had...
4 Aug 2026 la 07:48 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Steve în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
If you travel to the North York Moors by road from various directions you will see the brown tourist attraction signs. They don’t point the direction to the NYMR, they simply say ‘Steam Railway’. The NYMR must have agreed that wording when they...
4 Aug 2026 la 07:42 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It's a poor comparison. The really big issue with steam is that it is very labour intensive in day-to-day operation (all that shifting ash around ...) That's a big problem if you are paying for your labour, as British Railways was; less of an...
4 Aug 2026 la 07:40 -
MellishR a răspuns la subiectul FR & WHR & WHHR News.
Wasn't the hatchet buried some time ago?
3 Aug 2026 la 20:46 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Trevor Beglin în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
They do want to travel behind a steam locomotive but the lack of flexibility in the 60163 only fares, a return trip that doesn't amount to a full day out or offer Whitby as an option or a hefty premium close to a full line rover they'd have to...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:42 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui 60044 în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
The full diesel-hauled train was leaving Pickering earlier, and running through to Whitby. The 60163 train was later and only going as far as Grosmont. That may well be the difference! It isn't the whole story, though. If the NYMR abandoned...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:42 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Inzynier în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
We've been told many times earlier in this thread that people just don't want to travel behind diesel locomotives - they want steam. And yet it seems the steam train was half full but the diesel was more coaches and full to standing. That...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:41 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui 60044 în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
It is easy to point the blame at the marketing department for losing its way, but the CEO is a former marketing manager at the NYMR and should be expected to have a good knowledge of what works. As @Lineisclear used to point out in other...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:41 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Trevor Beglin în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
But the price is only part of the problem. The Tornado fares are effectively an Advance Return ticket in typical rail format versus a walkup/anytime for the Rover. I don't actually think any TOCs retail Advance Returns - typically you'd buy two...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:40 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I get a distinct sense that the Railway has lost its way in marketing terms - it is pressing the old buttons, but they aren't delivering the same results, and they are at a loss as to what to do. Tornado is a fine loco, but I suspect at this...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:39 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Trevor Beglin în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
When I was at the booking office on Monday the general perception from the customers waiting to be served a ticket seemed to be that the didn't want to pay double for steam and flexibility/visiting Whitby. To the majority of people and...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:39 -
MellishR a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul Oil Firing.
I guess it depends on the rationale for oil firing. Reading Holcroft and his description of the 1921 (SECR) and 1926 (SR) trials, it seems they were looking for an insurance policy if coal supplies were interrupted by strikes. So the overriding...
2 Aug 2026 la 16:36
