North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Sorry if this is already been covered, but I’ve just noticed that at least one of the posters for the Thomas event appears to be AI generated.

When you have 57 marketing staff on your payroll I’d expect them to do a bit more than typing a prompt into ChatGPT.

 

20% off Thomas "flash sale" advertised on social media channels.

 

57 marketing staff? Not enough in my opinion. I think they should employ at least 50 more, use the Station Hotel for office space, treble the admin budget, double the CEO's salary, buy a more diesels, abandon all steam, book a gala dinner every Friday, introduce more variety in fares, have a new timetable using 38 shades from a Dulux paintchart, increase booking fees. franchise out car parking, borrow more money, hire more railcars, provide fewer seats and run less trains.

Any similarity to any existing CEO's plan is entirely co-incidental.

 

Hi, I've never visited the NYMR but plan to do so (despite some of the bleak outlook on this thread) once USATC 2253 goes into service. One quick question, 2253 appears to be facing South at the moment. Will it likely stay that way to face the gradients once in service, or are locos regularly turned at both ends, given that there are turntables at both Pickering and Whitby?

 

There is only a turntable at Pickering.

 

Engines normally are smoke box facing south. 2253 looks like it is close to being ready for running in. There is a good mpd update of recent work at the shed


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Also advert in today's Northern Echo to win family tickets

 

Last night's Paul Merton driving trains

Featured him in the cab of 37688 on a 1200 Pickering to Whitby train

Hilarious continuity errors aside that the BBC C4 C5 love

The programme included the quote that the line carries 350,000 passengers a year

 

I assume that the railway knew he was coming to ride beforehand.

Just how useless are the supposed PR gurus in Park Street that they didn't have the sense to roster a steam loco footplate ride. Another opportunity missed.

 

Maybe the production company asked for a class 37.

 

In the French episode the BBC had him set off down the coastal SG line, with a shot of the Nice - Digne train leaving the Gare du sud.

 

The preferred method of operating steam locos is smokebox facing south. However, locos are occasionally turned to even out tyre wear.

Despite all the doom and gloom the railway is a wonderful line when things are going to plan and well worth a visit.

 

The NYMR is, and always has been, a wonderful railway but it needs restoring back to the wonderful heritage railway it had become, and then some building up beyond to take it to the next level - but that requires a management team that understands what is needed.