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No, that's part of the standard gangway, there is no adapter in use there. A standard gangway has 2 positions, stowed and in use. Stowed it is pushed back against the coach end and held in place by two retaining hooks shaped like big cabin hooks, in the in use position it is unclipped pulled forward maybe 6 inches or so and clamped to the similarly extended gangway of the joining vehicle, the gangways are then clamped together with the large clip that gets launched down the track (one each side). What has happened here is the bottom two thirds of one of the stowage hooks has broken off and so only on third was holding the nearest side in place. With the motion of the train the nearside of the standard gangway has come unstowed and swung round so that the retaining clamp has got hooked around the buffing plate on the Pullman gangway of the loco tender.

So there is a new enthusiasts group forming called Northallerton Railway Circle, formerly the Northallerton Area Group of the NYMR, after many years they have decided to cut ties with the NYMR, basically as a result of what is going on with the management of the organisation at the moment, they will fundraise for specific things like the NYMR wagon group but also for other projects on other railways and generally do their own thing. Best of luck to them.

Some of them are as I mentioned people doing unfamiliar things in a job which they only do a couple of days a month. J15 was down to distracted crew misjudging their permission, GCR incident was down to the bobby not being able to pull the signal and not realising that the reason the traps were still normal which was why the lever was locked in the frame, no idea what the B1 crew were doing! The standard gangway and the green thing was caused by two thirds of the clip back hook being broken off (and booked multiple times) and it would vibrate out and release the gangway, this time it did it and fouled the Pullman gangway on the A4 tender which nobody noticed when they uncoupled. It's a standard gangway vs. Pullman gangway, they aren't compatible without an adaptor.

Yeah, they did everything correctly for passing the signal at danger aside from checking the route! Didn't occur to anyone that the reason the bobby couldn't clear the signal was that the traps were still normal. I had a bobby try and do the same thing to me at Goathland a few years ago when we wanted to move the goods set that I had spent all week preparing and tidying up, many rude words were said to him quite loudly. That's the problem with galas though, people do moves they aren't used to doing and in some cases roster clerks put people in who only come once in a blue moon rather than the regulars out a strange sense of fairness and then wonder why galas go wrong!

Don't use the Ibis either, all the rooms are in a first floor extension over the carpark and a huge bank of airconditioning units that are really noisy. The Elmbank a little bit further up the road is good and the rooms are at the back away from the road.

It's an interesting piece, my take on it is no direct fare decreases but no fare increases, or smaller ones, for the time being, which would mean a slow decrease in the real terms cost of tickets, which kind of makes sense so its a similar model to what Labour did when they changed the English Heritage business model about 20 years ago and it does work. I'd prefer to see all maintenance brought in house and not relying on more expensive contractors for jobs as well and there is a decent bit of Network Rail infrastructure that is semi-derelict which needs money spending on it too, it's not politically sexy to tell everyone that we're stopping station building and signal box rooves leaking (for example) but it needs doing.

Or a dice tower, you could probably get a railway themed one, you drop the dice in the top and they roll down a slope and into a tray - you could make that interactive with the public?

You don't need to program anything, just use dice, they come in all shapes and sizes these days. All you need to do is make a table for each activity/road/failure etc and write it on a table and assign a dice number to it. You can even add a rare combination so a loco fails and has to be assisted back to a service road etc.

Yes, but try and mute it or return it to the manufacturer as defective.....

Air pressure goes up, vac pressure goes down. Vac bags are fitted to a dummy plug fitting on the headstock that the bag head clips into and is almost self sealing. Air bags have a tap/cock associated with them being positive pressure which is on the headstock at the top of the bag, they can be retained by a clip/chain or can be left to hang freely. Vac bags have a 2 inch girth that matches the profile of the standard vac main, whilst air bags are considerably thinner pipes, so the bags on the STS tanks are air bags.

And proof that even the professionals don't get the number straight all the time

Papagoldjuliet pretty much summed it up, although the Farthwath Rolling Stock Group is having problems with the NYMR who have placed all of their vehicles up for sale despite not being owned by the NYMR, NELPG have had a row with the Moors over the Deviation shed, the LNERCA have had their set withdrawn because of tyre wear and many of their volunteers have stopped coming because of no volunteer accommodation at Pickering. Let's not forget the celebrity shed master who offered 29 to the GCR for their gala provided the GCR paid a fee to the NYMR without talking to the owning group or offering them the money....

Why are that mans keys attached to a chain that goes up his kilt? That one's definitely real!

She is not a nice person and has a history of ensuring anyone who disagrees with her quietly disappears, whether paid or volunteer. They're screwed

The Moors only cleaned down at the end of the day, despite what their publicity said. A set would drop on lot off in Whitby at 1340 and the same set would take people out again at 1400.