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I think most things will fit the VoR, but re: the NGG13 it's worth noting that the VoR appears in no rush to overhaul No.9 despite it being in very good order so it's back down to three big engines - Nos. 7 and 8 and the Garratt - plus the Wren and the Quarry Hunslet for footplate rides.

The Welsh Highland Railway and the Ffestiniog never squabbled; they're the same company. The squabble was between the Ff&WHR on the one hand and the '64 Company or Welsh Highland Heritage Railway on the other, and although the two organisations have patched things up and do now cooperate WHR trains still don't stop at Pen y Mount junction so you can't make a direct connection to the Cambrian at Porthmadog without a long walk from one end of the high street to the other.

Add together the complete Collection X (even after the sale of a couple fo duplicate engines) and the separate 'Rampton' Collection which was already at the VoR and there's no chance of all of it fitting into the new building even after the on-loan Fire Queen and Earl of Berkeley have left again so I'd be very surprised if the VoR did not make use of its other exhibition space in the fullness of time. That said the VoR does have a long term plan to extend the museum using the London Bridge roof so perhaps the former museum at Pant has some other projected use. The VoR seems to keep its operating fleet to a bare minimum however - three big engines plus a couple of small ones for footplate rides - and the BMR requires very large engines so I can't see much of the Rampton Collections actually being retsored to running order let alone running out of Pant. The Kerr Stuart Gwalior Railway pacifics, perhaps?

Obviously on visits to lines in South Wales she'll have to be renamed "Dysglaid."

No idea. The stationary engine is presumably still in situ. Perhaps in due course some of the Rampton collection be exhibited there?

A group of Boston Lodge volunteers have been very quietly building a replica de Winton - named 'Panad' - for the past several years (because just sort of casually building a new steam engine in your spare time without telling anybody is the kind of wondrous thing Boston Lodge does) and although the odd photo has appeared on Facebook this is I think the first official announcement. https://www.pressreader.com/uk/steam-railway-uk/20240501/282041922057167

'Pendyffryn' and 'Redstone' have now been placed on display in the Aber museum. https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/2024/04/19/more-new-exhibits-arrive-in-aberystwyth/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR10aNGEDgrYPxw9bQ3PiSEq_I-Vm7dDrz6zMTTzTQZFdHw2MUcHa81dU5g_aem_AelBenSsTb66-wa_3tMH9wvYWIpT9b13ZgUZl59hdvZy8xNGrdgtcE7d16zlUrnTsY9jogipR5023h1OtEYTGfmv

Three more items from Collection X are now on display at the VoR: https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/2024/04/18/new-exhibits-in-the-museum/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3SKmmOsjiGtah1nafbmuqcITG-yPu0lATVB3af0nVwAuQko4JB15UoxN4_aem_AdO-1qMvbz8-ymmQwBNzpDqd4lkiF6IJ6ojLtS3Vk8PzBUU_GrcoHolIR5hFYF5m2kTi6LcnXeVoQEJCSo0FPzLz

Three problems there. The first is that getting the Plasser crane working cost more than the ropes for the steam crane would have, the second is that I would not like to try to get a large road crane round the back lanes and down the long 1 in 3 Esk Valley Bank to Grosmont MPD, and the third is that there are many locations on the NYMR where there is no road access at all (which is why the second steam crane was purchased from BR in the first place, to enable bridge deck replacement work deep in Newtondale) which means that without both 45T cranes available the NYMR has had to spend a fortune hiring in a Volker Rail Kirov crane when replacing Bridge 30 and the Goathland bridges. And of course they do have the competent personnel necessary to run a large steam crane; the Grosmont crane is in service and the NYMR has been using such things continuously since it borrowed the NER 25T steam crane from the NRM in the mid-70s.

It was withrawn a few years ago because it needed a new set of ropes. The P-Way dept - or rather the York Area Group - also has a Plasser 12T self-propelled crane, a 20T Coles crane, and a 15T Coles crane, but there is nothing at that end of the line with the lifting capacity of the crane being disposed of and, as has been stated, nothing bar a second Coles fifteen tonner which belongs to the NYMR itself. If the MPD 45T crane is withdrawn for whatever reason then there will be no backup for it capable of large loco lifts.

Re: an earlier post the NYMR has now puy the New Bridge steam craen up for sale. That should keep certain people in the manner to which they are accustomed for a while longer. Page 10 here. "Buyer to remove from railway" of course means "You may not keep that thing on my train set." https://www.tractionads.co.uk/TRACTION_-_ROLLING_No_151.pdf

The NYMR York Area Group is distinct from the North York Moors Historical Railway Trust though.

It lives!

I am aware of a new manager of the Oxfam shop in Rochester a decade or so ago who on her first day went around all the antique, junk, and second hand book shops in the area, introduced herself, and announced that she considered it her job to put them out of business.

The NYMR's own official stock list says that they're owned by the YAG: https://www.nymr.co.uk/carriages Of the civils fleet, the NYMR's own documentation says that it owns all but one of the plate wagons, the borail, the sturgeon, the (out of service) New Bridge steam crane, one of the Coles cranes, a weltrol, two flatrols, and two brake vans.