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  1. Sheff gefällt cksteams Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Engine 1 brings train into the station. Engine 2 moves from Platform 2 to Platform 1 and couples to back of train. Engine 1 uncouples but remains in place. Engine 2 then takes the train back to Pickering leaving Engine 1 in the station....

    13 Mai 2026 um 14:14
  2. Sheff gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    It's pretty stark when you put it like that. When you look at the 2024 accounts, the staff costs alone (including pensions and NI) came to slightly under £10,000 per day, 365 days of the year. You'd better hope they sell a lot of keyrings! (To...

    13 Mai 2026 um 08:35
  3. Sheff gefällt FearOfManchesters Beitrag in dem Thema Peak Rail General Discussion.

    Darley dale station bridge update: The bridge components have returned and are at rowsley ready for the engineering dept to get their teeth into the many hundreds of rivets, and of course paint: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Padstones are...

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  4. Sheff gefällt 5944s Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I don't think it's just that. They simply can't carry enough people with the current method of operation. The majority of the timetable at the moment is 3 x four coach trains per day, plus one return trip with the autocar, and an afternoon diner....

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  5. Sheff gefällt Steves Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    A Black 5 turns the scales at 125.5 tons, a 4MT tank at 86.7 tons. That’s a tad short of 39 tons the tank doesn’t have to move around (that’s about the same as a mk1 full of passengers) so will have to do a lot less actual work. They are both...

    13 Mai 2026 um 06:43
  6. Sheff gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Well, that surprises me - my entirely subjective experience is that 80151 seems lighter work! Tom

    13 Mai 2026 um 06:41
  7. Sheff gefällt Chris86s Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    At one stage there was a suggestion of one of the Cheddleton based S160s possibly obtaining approval for the mainline.

    12 Mai 2026 um 20:17
  8. Sheff gefällt black5s Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

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  9. Sheff gefällt Steves Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    If you do the sums, 76079 is better suited to the NYMR than a Black 5 and, in terms of tractive effort, it has pretty much the same as a Black 5 in hand on 7 coach trains. Why better suited? A Black 5 weighs more and that extra weight has to be...

    12 Mai 2026 um 20:12
  10. Sheff änderte den Ort von N Warks zu Leicestershire.

    12 Mai 2026 um 11:21
  11. Sheff gefällt 26D_Ms Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Totally agree Peter, had some happy days on the 76 in its ELR days. Being a Horwich loco gives it a special affection too so I'm glad it has a working future again, albeit rather far from "home"!

    11 Mai 2026 um 18:09
  12. Sheff gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    It always was a distress sale - the question is how much the distress has been compounded. But, given a choice between an NYMR without the resources to overhaul her, and a Strathspey with those resources, I'm glad she's moving on

    11 Mai 2026 um 18:08