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35B liked ghost's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

Once again, you resort to the 'what can we do to fight back against these volunteers' stance (let's remove their opportunity to volunteer), instead of looking at it for what it is - a statement to the management that things are not right and need...

Kirk Oswald liked ghost's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

Once again, you resort to the 'what can we do to fight back against these volunteers' stance (let's remove their opportunity to volunteer), instead of looking at it for what it is - a statement to the management that things are not right and need...

60044 liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

I am not a fan of strike action, anywhere. However, where it does work (even without legal protections for strikers), it works because both sides need each other. I agree with @Jamessquared that this is a "we must do something, and this is...

60044 liked Kirk Oswald's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

True, but the railway is already collapsing financially, structurally, morally, in reputation, in organisation, in atmosphere, in heritage, in popularity, in marketing, in response, in revenue, in donations, in bequests, in credibility, in...

60044 liked ghost's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

Once again, you resort to the 'what can we do to fight back against these volunteers' stance (let's remove their opportunity to volunteer), instead of looking at it for what it is - a statement to the management that things are not right and need...

ghost replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

Once again, you resort to the 'what can we do to fight back against these volunteers' stance (let's remove their opportunity to volunteer), instead of looking at it for what it is - a statement to the management that things are not right and need...

MellishR liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

There was a bit of a conversation that started about here: https://national-preservation.com/threads/north-yorkshire-moors-railway-general-discussion.29732/page-407 (when, oddly enough, we were discussing the NYMR accounts ;) ) though I am...

Johnme101 liked Rander's post in the thread Bulleid Pacifics - Past or Present.

Rileys reporting 34007's boiler has been brought outside for hydraulic and steam tests. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1747961054003835&set=a.375127114620576

Johnme101 liked Sawdust's post in the thread NYMR | Autumn Steam Gala | 24-27 September 2026.

[ATTACH] This just happened to be where I was sitting on Friday evening. A minute later there was a throng of people and I couldn't even see the locos. Sawdust.

Spitfire liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

The problem with a strike - quite apart from actually mobilising one - is that it falls into the "something must be done, and this is something" line of reasoning. In practice it would likely just cause the one thing you are trying to avoid at...

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Border City Express 3rd October 2026

This tour has been advertised by the Settle Carlisle Railway Development Company since early August as steam from Bradford Forster Square to Carlisle and return....

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Johnme101 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Bluebell Railway | Giants of Steam | 16th-18th October 2026.

The Awake the Giant team teased a photo the other day of their tender brimming with coal! I don't know if the tender is following the loco on its onwards travels to the Cholsey and Wallingford, but in the absence of any other tender, I assume...

Johnme101 liked Dan Hill's post in the thread Bluebell Railway | Giants of Steam | 16th-18th October 2026.

The Bluebell have posted another picture of the loco in the yard and it appears to have been fitted with the tender from 92240. The post confirms what was mentioned in the Bluebell thread that it will be hauling a morning goods service and then...

green five replied to the thread Mid-Hants Railway | Autumn Steam Gala | 2nd-4th October 2026.

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