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  1. 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...

    13. Rujan 2025. u 22:36
  2. 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.

    13. Rujan 2025. u 22:33
  3. 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

    10. Rujan 2025. u 22:43
  4. 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...

    10. Rujan 2025. u 22:15
  5. 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.

    10. Rujan 2025. u 22:15
  6. Sheff odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Is that Tornado? How many total capacity ?

    10. Rujan 2025. u 16:09
  7. Sheff liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Is that Liver and Bacon ?? :-)

    9. Rujan 2025. u 09:53
  8. 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.

    9. Rujan 2025. u 09:52
  9. 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]

    8. Rujan 2025. u 21:03
  10. 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...

    8. Rujan 2025. u 20:55
  11. 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...

    8. Rujan 2025. u 16:04
  12. Sheff odgovara u temi 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?

    8. Rujan 2025. u 15:20
  13. 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...

    8. Rujan 2025. u 10:03
  14. Sheff priljepljuje datoteku u temu RTC 2025.

    This was the statement on Riley & Son FB two days ago - they were clearly happy with the testing …… [ATTACH]

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  15. 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 :-)

    7. Rujan 2025.