North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

The £24.95 fare is Pickering - Goathland. For reasons only known to those in marketing. the website does not even offer Pickering - Grosmont, not even on the 10.55 which only goes to Grosmont and no further. Nothing is offered from Grosmont other than to Whitby. There's no mention of single tickets anywhere, as far as I can see . Personally, I find this to be a laughable state of affairs. The small print does however say "If your preferred journey is not listed, you can still buy tickets on the day from any station Booking Office or on board with one of our friendly Travelling Ticket Inspectors." That does mean that you can't book in advance and have to pay on the day prices.

 

It does seem odd when coming from W Yorks, in my case Leeds, the 1055 out and 1440 back seems like one of the more obvious day trips

 

A little light relief to give us a break from the heavy depressing stuff…
The Head of People has sent out an update from the Volunteer Forum that has been passed to me where he has asked if the railway “needs an almoner to keep in touch with volunteers who are ill or too old or have passed”
This could be the first heritage railway with a head of dead people

 

Does being too pissed off to renew my membership after over 50 years qualify me for his ministrations?

 

The Middleton Railway (which I’m involved with) introduced the idea of an almoner to keep in touch with those volunteers who could no longer be involved for whatever reason. It has been a very successful idea and our almoner recently gave a presentation to the HRA on the subject, which was well received. There must be many such people on the NYMR who this applies to. The almoner keeps in touch with these people and will send a get well card to those who are ill, if necessary. A meeting is arranged from time to time when people are invited to attend and meet up with other fellow colleagues who are no longer active. I’m not sure whether keeping in touch with dead people is really practical but sending sympathy cards to the near family on behalf of the railway is sensible. Whether I, as a disgruntled volunteer, would qualify in any way is a debatable point.

 

Joking aside, I’m not sure it’s a totally stupid idea - a masonic almoner deals with the ill and elderly brethren and their widows/relicts.

given that at their best some railways are like family I think many more should be doing likewise.

though agree on the implied table tapping/Doris Stokes aspect*

*though even then, it’s an income stream…

 

Looks like Omaha had a solo run out today on load 6

Jon