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Sheff liked alexl102's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
I'm not sure I wholly agree. Certainly I think some railways are too focussed on the commercial at the expense of the heritage - I won't deny that. And in the case of the NYMR I think they're both overly focussed on the commerical and apparently...
Sep 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM -
Sheff liked Pete Thornhill's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Completely disagree - to survive they all or at the very least the majority need to be commercially minded with their business model bearing in mind that the majority of passengers (and target market) are tourists and the leisure sector.
Sep 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM -
Sheff liked Sidmouth4me's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
7 coaches - 2 TSO: 2 x 64 =128 2 TSO: 2 x 60 =120 1 Easy Access = 48 1 BKO = 39 1 RMB = 44 Total capacity = 128 + 120 + 48 + 39 + 44 = 379 seats 2 trains per day = 758 seats capacity/ day
Sep 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM -
Sheff liked guycarr360's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.
With the wheels balanced, surely a quick win is to build up the kit of parts that are to hand to build up the tender. It was mentioned in January, and see no reason to not start, manpower dependent. As @Sheff says, fitting the boiler, without...
Sep 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM -
Sheff liked The Green Howards's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.
If nothing else, it'd give the Trust something to crow about at their Convention.
Sep 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM -
Sheff replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Is that Tornado? How many total capacity ?
Sep 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM -
Sheff liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Is that Liver and Bacon ?? :-)
Sep 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM -
Sheff liked Bikermike's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I asked the maid in dulcet tone To order me a buttered scone; The silly girl has been and gone And ordered me a buttered scone.
Sep 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM -
Sheff liked free2grice's post in the thread The Mayflower - 6/09/25.
I thought that Bahamas didn't look too bad. Did anyone else notice? ;) [BJ]
Sep 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM -
Sheff liked Ploughman's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.
I used to work on the Wheel Balancer occasionally at BREL York as a relief machinist. A Wheel set came to me direct from the wheel lathe. I would then set it up on the balancer rollers bolted by the threaded connection on the axle end, driven by...
Sep 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM -
Sheff liked QLDriver's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.
I would have thought the tyres would be considerably more uniform than the centres. Presumably Tornado has disc wheels, so the machining for balancing would look different. I seem to remember from the RCTS books that the LNER did not originally...
Sep 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM -
Sheff replied to the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.
Just can’t get those LNER knock-on weights any more. I don’t recall this happening on Tornado’s tender wheels. Assume you’d have to repeat every time they fit new tyres?
Sep 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM -
Sheff liked Alex Productions's post in the thread RTC 2025.
I want to say that I honestly regret any comments which might have made me come across as being judgemental on situations I don't know about. We can always strive to be better on these things and not point the finger and be critical of things we...
Sep 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM -
Sheff liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
No 6. Nothing has happened yet, but I this is what I think it might be eventually... No 7A - just keep taking the tablets, something will come to pass eventually :-)
Sep 7, 2025
