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I think Royal Oak North & South and maybe Filey Holiday Camp were that style too.

What haven't I done! Woof

There are a load of T3s booked next week between Driffield and Hunmanby next week for "Resignalling" as well. Not sure what they are actually doing though

They are definitely short rerailing ramps, knowing the amount of crap buried in the bushes and undergrowth at Seamer I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were still on site somewhere!

Gallows Close Goods Yard in Scarborough in the early 1960s with an unidentified BR STD 3 shunting the yard. Photographer unknown, found on the Scarborough and Whitby Railway Facebook Group.

I have no idea, I nicked it off a newspaper page

So this is the official Network Rail map of lines open and lines closed during the strikes next week. Blue is open, red is closed. Now, look closely, how many heritage railways can you see outlined in red!!!!!

I'm not Mayor Boris, but if you like you may refer to me as my official title, His Randyness the High Priest to Loki God of Mischief

I was on that train, I think the young lad in the loud shell jacket is the mate I was traveling with and you can just see my arm behind the loco. Thanks for bringing back a memory of flailing and underage drinking. And making me feel old!

Weirdly since becoming a signaller on the big railway I've found that generally Network Rail staff (and frontline staff from the TOCs) demonstrate the community atmosphere and "we're in it together" that you would expect on a preserved railway rather than from a faceless corporation. It's a far better atmosphere in my job than my hobby and is why I'm taking 2 months off from playing trains, see how I feel about going back then.

I'm kind of the opposite, got more free time than I've ever had , done 30+ years as a volunteer on the NYMR and at the point of telling them to stick it. I'm bored stupid when I'm there, transferring to something else on the railway is nigh on impossible and I am getting to the point I don't have the patience to deal with the people whose only qualification is to stick a huge hat on with gold braid and think they're gods gift to railways. I would look at the turnover of volunteers, if the only people there have been there forever and there are no new faces walk away. If there's a really good mix and people can be bothered to take time to talk to a new/prospective volunteer that's the place to go. I took a few months off from the Moors for medical reasons and did my first guards turn in ages in April and I saw 2 different attitudes on display, the most prevalent was "you're new so I'm going to ignore you or use my greater experience to try and bully you". The better one was the one person who came up and said "Hi, I've not seen you before my name is ******* if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them". To me you need to get something from your volunteering hobby, a sense of achievement or that you've turned up had some fun with like minded people and that you've helped the railway in some manner. If you don't get that vote with your feet!

Something a little more up to date now, an MPV passing Seamer SB a few days ago. Note, video in total was taken by motion activated camera so as not to interfere with my duties in the box.

Yeah, because brushing it under the carpet goes down so well with the ORR these days.

Well, dang , I'm glad its not just the NYMR that plays dodgems with trains

If you have the buffers on one coach extended you can uncouple them, its a bit of a fight but it can be done without too much violence. You have to really try hard to couple mk1s with both sets of buffers in the long position, like really smack them together to get the buckeyes to take. I've seen windows break on mk1s coupled like this because of the stress to the coach body, and yeah, you aren't getting them apart via normal means.

Yes, its the only way the Pullman gangways work

Mike, when we put a vile A4 on a none buckeye vehicle we used the emergency screw coupling on the tender, the guys from the A4LS seemed to think this was standard practice?

There's information at the Cromford and High Peak railc/anal interchange that a train naffed off on its own down the incline there and a good amount of it ended up in the canal having reached estimates approaching 100mph. I mean the stuff is all designed for relatively low rolling resistance, and you can move an empty wagon by hand with a couple of fellas. Air resistance isn't going to be a huge factor until you reach about180mph apparently, although I am treating that figure with a pinch of salt.

About the only that hasn't changed in that photo is the 1/4 mile post which is still there under the bridge.

Definitely double track until 1970 or so, a couple of miles from where that photo was taken was a little signal box called Speeton which was used to break up the longer double track sections in the summer. I believe the box was bulldozed into a bomb crater in the field behind once it closed. The ped on the single line isn't far from Reighton Gap, relatively well known as a nudist beach.

@Michael Hodgson are Thomas events still a thing? The NYMR dumped them 15 years ago and it was going to cost £40k+ to organise one then!

I dunno about buying but there seems to be a thriving exchange industry, the number of baby changing rooms I see these days

Heritage railways are expensive, most of them are fully a premium day out now. The NYMR is £45 for a round trip Pickering to Whitby which works out about 90p a mile, but for that you can make a full day of it which isn't bad for a day out, or you could ride up and down twice bringing that down to 45p per mile. Compare that to £69 for a day at Alton Towers (Adult walk-up) it compares favourably, look at it this way though, you have to meet the 21st century standards on many things, mountains of paperwork to plough through and factor in it costs something like £2000-£2500 just to get a Black 5 off shed these days, never mind the days coal, water and oil. 10000 gallon water tank is £800-1000 to fill these days I believe as well. I agree in isolation heritage railways look expensive but if you then take a look at in the context of the tourism industry as a whole they aren't massively overpriced for a days entertainment. If you like heritage railways, volunteer at one (one day a month would do) that offers the HRA card for about £20 a year you get free or reduced travel on 90% of the UKs heritage railways and get to contribute to the hobby, it really is a win win.