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North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by The Black Hat, Feb 13, 2011.

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    ....along with increased fire risk, presumably - less of a problem just to New Bridge, though. Is the S160 available for traffic now?
     
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    Any news on how busy the Thomas event has been?
     
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    5944 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Yes, it's been out on the Moorlander.
     
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    well, there are a theoretical 2365 seats available each day. According to the booking site just now there are still a total of 2024 seats available tomorrow. On Saturday there are currently 1860 seats available. Make your own interpretation.
     
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    That's not encouraging news.
     
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    Just been on the NYMR web site. Clicked on the Thomas Event. Page came up with Thomas on it. Right above Thomas are the words KIDS GO FREE. I know that is not correct, but how many potential visitors see this, go to book and see the actual prices. That is very poor marketing.
     
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    If those figures are correct, the railway would've made more money, by a factor of 3 or 4, running the standard timetable from Pickering to Whitby.

    How much income has been foregone due to Thomas, £100,000?
     
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    You couldn’t make it up, could you?
     
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    Maybe it can be misinterpreted but if you look closely it is talking about the Day Rover offer from June 1. It is a banner that shows up on various pages.
     
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    The unfortunate fact is that you don't need to.
     
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    I may have observed this before, but quite a few of the communications from the railway seem to have an air of “I don’t know why people misunderstand, I knew what I meant”. That banner is a bit of a rookie error to be honest.
     
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    But hard to excuse when you have so many people working in marketing, and that they “won” an “award”
     
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    When I'm posting things, or emailing to a large list, before I hit 'go', I always re-read what I wrote, asking myself 'how could a reader possibly misinterpret this', and edit it to make them all impossible (e.g. by replacing pronouns - which might be attached to the wrong previously-mentioned person - with the actual name(s) intended). A habit I recommend to everyone.

    Noel
     
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