North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Here's a picture of the start of that day during the Sunday morning tea stop at Levisham. With the diner being out on the Saturday night we had to wait while Levisham box was switched in while taking the light engine through to Pickering. There was always time for tea here on this turn

The date is 12/10/97 - happy days!

Peter

 

It steamed on a candle Peter, for sure, a fireman's dream. A joy on the other side of the footplate too, I passed out for driving on it in fact though my first rostered driving turn after that was actually on 45407, dressed as 45157, because the 'Crab' had reached the end of its ticket.

 

From Steamport Southport an attempt to acquire 42765 was made, but beaten to it by Andy?
Didn't get much past selling pens etc with the memorable tag line Catch a Crab
A group of us had a day out to Barry to view our target probably about 1975 - 6.

 

Andy Wilson.
ELR bought a more than half share of the loco circa 1992, and it was moved to Kirkby where Ian finished it off on behalf of the ELR.
It arrived at the ELR, undertook successful testing September 1993. Then Wilson promptly initiated a court action claiming to be the majority owner so it was made a ward of court for some time. Finally resolved and ELR took full ownership during September 1994, so it lost a year of running. After that it was the stalwart, alongside 46441, 45337 and 45407 until the latter changed hands and became a busy mainline performer.
42765 soldiered on valiantly until July 2003, returning to steam circa 2015 but stopped again in 2018 since when it has lain in a dismanted state and subject to an appeal to cover the massive cost of repairing it.
Maybe it will get to celebrate 40 years on the ELR in steam.

 

It was a bit more involved than that IIRC, Bryan. As you say it was originally a Steamport project (I'd forgotten about the 'Catch a Crab tagline) led by Gordon Walker and several components off it and 42859 made their way to Steamport. When it became obvious that Steamport wasn't going to raise the cash quickly enough - scrap prices were rising rapidly in 1973-4, Chris Forrest and Ken Chenoweth decided to take over the reservation and obtained a Fowler tender (ex 42756) from the Carlisle breakdown train. As it happened Andy Wilson came on the scene, took over, and bought the tender from Ken and Chris.
Ray.

 

That tender ran behind 43924 and (?) 48431 at KWVR whilst 42765 was still being restored at Ingrow IIRC.
Not sure this is now appropriate subject matter for the thread though ....

 

What sort of time period would this have been?

 

Mid to late 80s Sheff?
The Crab tender with coal rails definitely ran with the 4F.
The 8F ran with a Fowler tender but may have been later with the 4Fs, 90s?

 

The temporary replacement footbridge has been opened today. Very impressive speed not always common with a local authority.

 

“The temporary bridge would be downstream a few hundred yards away as that’s the only way they can actually do it at the moment, unfortunately, until we can get the bridge repaired."

Having only walked across the footbridge twice (i.e. not being that familiar with it), I assume this means there will still be access to the foot tunnel/shed?

 

Yes, access to foot tunnel, shed, rail trail, church etc.

In actual fact the temporary structure is, in effect, the existing structure with additional scaffolding support.

The "downstream" option would appear to have been a red (freshwater) herring.

 

Never let local rag disinformation get in the way of a good story, eh?

 

The temporary footbridge is inside the current footbridge.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DGypMYbyz/



Whether that's the temporary structure that's meant to least two years, or an interim one until the temporary one is built to allow the permanent one to be repaired/rebuilt, no idea!

 

Such quality looking brickwork on the other side a well.

 

It’s a matryoshka bridge!

Tom

 

Maybe the NYMR Marketing team could get their heads around that idea

 

Maybe the NYMR marketing team is a matryoshka itself?

Noel

 

https://www.nymr.co.uk/plan-your-visit/timetable/
Looking at the red timetable, for example for today 2nd June. Does anyone know why the 13:25 Grosmont-Whitby is marked 'Y', the code for part of a service being diesel-hauled. From what I understand / remember from past years. The Grosmont-based steam loco is intended to be mainline, as is backed up by the first Whitby run being steam, which then goes back to Pickering and forms the 12:00 ex-Pickering and hauls through to Whitby. To make matters more confusing, the 14:10 ex-Whitby is denoted as steam. Surely the steam doesn't run round at Grosmont and a diesel goes on the Whitby end?

I understand that shortage of mainline steam locos and the need for fitness to run exams means that Whitby runs 2 and 4 are timetabled for diesel, but didn't know that trip 3 was ever usually like this?

Loco roster for today shows 37264 and 92134 on Pickering-Grosmont trips, with 37688 taking all Whitbys. Eric Treacy might have joined in in place of 264 this afternoon 'subject to availibility'. https://www.nymr.co.uk/media/jqefkx1c/020626-v2.pdf

 

I think it's simply down to lack of locos, and the timetable on the homepage not being the easiest to use. 2253 is being tweaked and 44806 not in use for some reason, that leaves them with the four locos rostered today (plus no. 29). With both Black 5s not in traffic for the morning (or possibly all day), then that leaves 37688 as the only Whitby loco on the railway.

 

I'm told 45428 was under repair yesterday morning. Not sure what for as I my contact didn't know. 44806 had a minor earth fault on Sunday. Again, i've no idea of the details and whether any damage was caused. Things should be back to normal today. Fingers crossed.
As 5944 says, the loco situation is rather tight. Hopefully, 2253 will be about soon.