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Ovoids are rocket fuel in my rayburn at home, as you say give them a good flow of air and they are pretty decent - in a domestic application. I'm not sure that they are the future of steam railways. In the meantime the current economic circumstances start to bite in other ways: Public train services cancelled for the remaining weekends in March at Midland Railway – Butterley. Regrettably we are having to reduce our service train offering for the remainder of March due to the uncertainty around the supply of red diesel for our DMU service which was planned to run. Escalating prices and supply issues are forcing us to conserve fuel ahead of planned events in April. We apologise for any disappointment this causes and hope to see you all in April . This ongoing situation will be under constant review over the coming weeks. We're planning to keep Butterley office and shop manned for any enquiries. Midland Railway – Butterley's next public train services will now be on Saturday 2nd April 2022 for the first passenger services in preservation for the 125 Group's High Speed Train!

I don't know a huge amount about this photograph, but here goes. A photo of Muston Crossing box on what is now an AHB on the A165 between Cayton and Filey, I think its from the early 1950s showing what we think is the local signalling inspector (the bobby is visible in the cabin), sourced via a friend who has access to the Filey archives. I was going to put this in the signal box thread, but I like this thread more.

That hut in the background has caught my attention, that is ridiculously small!

Good grief, A4s really are butt ugly

This seems to have been a continual problem, I have a couple of photos taken by a family member in about 1964 of a train in Scarbados with an EE3 and a relief/excursion set composed almost entirely of mixed dmu trailer vehicles! When I finally buy a slide scanner I'll upload them, there's some fun stuff in the collection.

At 6:05 unless my eyesight is playing tricks on me there is a 101 dmu with a green trailing car, and a blue leading car which still has a green roof above the cantrail!

And you obviously didn't pick-up on the point I made in my post, a movement made in this circumstances is made in a controlled manner, which wasn't the case in the thread we are in. Getting out and having a look isn't always practical in a railway environment where other movements are being made. This is where permissive platform working comes in, it is the signallers responsibility to make sure that there is sufficient space for the train being signalled into the occupied platform before the movement is made, then the driver needs to make sure he doesn't hit the stock in the platform and proceed at a safe speed in case of restricted visibility. Stop within the distance you can see, which you'll be familiar with from the Highway Code.

And I would also assume in the absence of a banksman reverse at a speed that meant, should you collide with anything no major damage will occur?

What annoys me as an NYMR member and volunteer is that the NYMR has 1-2 people who are paid full time to deal with exactly this stuff and making sure one of your inspectors has up to date paperwork before they accompany/sign off anyone else is quite fundamental. I can understand it with smaller railways who rely on volunteers to look after this kind of thing but when you have staff who are employed 36 hours a week to look after it there has got to be a performance issue there.

Health and safety, the minimum age requirement for NYMR station staff is 150, they can't lift the sponge nevermind the bucket.

To be honest mate for the time and heartache you are going to spend finding a shade that may or may not be right you are better off spending £20 on an airbrush and using that with either the railmatch or phoenix offerings

It's the grade of the person on duty that the NYMR uses, rules passed and qualified to fire steam locos as opposed to secondmen who may well be rules passed but don't fire steam locos due to being in the diesel of promotion rather than steam. So you could get a fireman rostered on a diesel but not a secondman rostered on a steam loco. It's the same sort of thing with platform staff, you have a grade Station Foreman who is passed to assist with train despatch and Station Staff who shut doors, assist passengers and lick windows but aren't passed to assist with the departure process. I dunno why the NRM couldn't honour the certificates for Flying Dustman as one of the first places it ran after the NRM money pit overhaul was the NYMR. Smells like preservation politics to me.

Trains can carry more than lorries? Who knew.....

Hurrah!!

That backing disc looks inconveniently close to the crossing!

Rumour has it some engineering stuff will be going in/out via Seamer up to Saturday

More fun and games on the Moors https://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/19669876.firefighters-called-train-fire-grosmont-near-whitby/?fbclid=IwAR2VFNO6T7M7SvX-lTAs9OkNWnOQ70j216aLwVNE-0DOJhqf_VTz1abjeY4

There has been some route learning done via Seamer as well in case the trains have had to go out that way, some of the spent ballast has previously gone out that way and reversed at Seamer)

Well, damn. I didn't even know there was an exhibition in Leeds this weekend. Might come over tomorrow to throw peanuts and go to my first model railway show in 2 years

Line closed was definitely used on some block instruments, I think some of the older AB machines on the Harrogate line have Line Closed as opposed to Line Blocked. Our NER instruments at Weaverthorpe have Line Blocked. Oddly enough the NYMR had an omnibus phone until recently between all of the offices at signal boxes south of Goathland that was run through the GPO and latterly BT, it was only removed because BT couldn't find the parts or knowledge to repair the line when it went wrong. I suppose its a bit of a cheat but they also signal trains over the same sections using an internet connection in lieu of a block cable, so I suppose its kind of the same thing.

A8 69877 passing High Mill Crossing just north of Pickering in 1953 - found in a local Pickering group on facebook, copyright unknown. The gates are still manual as they were for much of the boxes life, only becoming mechanised a few months before the cabin closed.

Class 37 on your new mk5 set? Got it. 5N37 passing Weaverthorpe yesterday from Scarborough TMD to Manchester Longsight.