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Even today the boom gates at Redcar only close off the railway on one side of the road. When you think about it a barrier crossing doesn't close the railway off at all

What a shame

I wonder if it still exists? There was one on the NYMR but unfortunately it went up in flames in the 1980s,don't know if any others survived

The 120 looks like the weird bloke on normal for Norfolk!

The RTC would have been the 'white heat of technology' back then. Such a shame it's now just rented offices now. Thanks again Dave Just noticed there are still semaphores present, for some reason I thought the power box was before 69

Thats stunning Pete!

Nice one Andy, is the new one actually a signal?

That looks really good mate,nice one

Wetwang would be nice as one of the best fish and chip shops in the world is there! Is Burdale actually passable now? Believe it or not this has actually changed over the years as there is a massive void in places over the brick lining. I know it would be nice but I suppose it would be a bit of a lottery regarding safety. Mind it managed about seventy years of safe running.

I would love to see this project suceed . I used to pass over the adjacent road about twice a week in the early 90s and it took me a while to realise where the railway used to be. Its a very ambitious project, there is actually more remaining trackbed on the Rosedale branch, but it would be great to see Driffield to Fimber ,or even better further on through Burdale tunnel. That would be the longest by far in presavation

Caused a strike?

[quote name="Sir Hadyn" post="2285623" timestamp="1461620664" I'm not sure that the NRM is all that interested in rail vehicles that didn't actually run in revenue service. Neither E-Train nor HSFV1 fall into that category of course and are treated a bit as the 'great unwashed'. Quite what can be done about that is difficult to see, but a change in attitude would be very welcome. " You need to meet our Head Curator, I met him on the train this morning and he was reading Hugh Williams' book. He's also very interested in HSFV1. Research is becoming a big story. Let's get you two together, he was asking questions today I couldn't answer! I don't think there have been many tickets sold for the royal train. Maybe they could be arranged to show how Vic berry operated?

I hope things can move forward, I really do as the star exhibit in the period before yours was the gravy train. I does however take time to shake off a reputation, the British car industry never recovered from a square steering wheel but people still buy the daily mirror after a rogue free style diver!

Well that's very good and what myself and a lot of others have been waiting for. As I said in the bottom three lines of my post last night

You may be passionate about the place, and there is no way I'm going to name anyone but you know the people I'm talking about

IF it had unlimited space, I wouldn't mind foreign stock but it doesn't. Hopefully with changes in management the days when APT-E could have been scrapped are gone. It was also a close call with the prototype HST as that was almost sectioned. I think the power unit actually was.

The thing is for a lot of us time goes so bloody quickly. When you consider the big four era ,which a lot of people class as the golden age. It only lasted 25 years,and for the last nine was hardly golden To put that in context and with this thread its 22 years since privatisation if you class Railtrack as being the end, roughly 30 since most things stopped being painted blue and grey and 41 years since APT-E last ran. I know railways need to run for the public, couldn't agree more. But I can tell you from experience that a lot of directors of these places no very little about railway history. Back in the late nineties I was absolutely lampooned on the North Norfolk after I drew up a collecting policy and suggested we had an 86 for a stillborn museum. Historically that would have been important, but somehow a WD 2-10-0 somehow fitted the bill!

You can borrow my airbrush and compressor if you want Pete

To be fair it's not just the NRM that are not great lovers of post 1968 stock (a more accurate title of what is sometimes called modern traction) . There are not many railways that tolerate mk2s the MNR being the big exception, some railways insist in painting stock even DMUs in pre nationalisation liveries. A lot also still treat mk1s and BR freight stock as being disposable. The North Norfolk has ruined a pipe and a tube,the former being mutilated with a pre grouping brake van body and the latter used as a chassis for a 4w coach only to find it doesn't ride well, well it wouldn't would it! Let's not go near the shameless treatment of the XP64 stock by the Dean Forrest or the NYMR, though to be fair I don't think they actually own the coaches

Bloody hell that didn't take long! Your tea cup is still warm here! Well done

I think the biggest thanks must go to you Kit. I know lots of people have worked very hard on the project but without your input it may still have happened but it wouldn't have had the 'life' in the model that you have given the project. And without your band of volunteers that have done the restoration work on the real thing,it may not have actually survived the darkest days of NRM management Well done mate

I think with the way Britain has gone the NRM should really be a celebration of OUR contribution to the railway, we did invent it after all! In the next few years all people will need to do if they want to see a Japanese EMU at the NRM is look out of the window. We really do not pay anywhere near the attention to our industrial heritage as we should,especially the more recent stuff. When I go to the former tech centre at Derby it always upsets me that that place was one THE world leader in rail technology, a real product of the 1960s white heat policy. Now... A few rented offices and the workshops a make do TMD

I find it quite ironic that they can find room for a Japanese bullet train but not our home grown high speed trains or vehicles

Where do sounds mentioned above actually come from? It always intrigues me that sound is available for loco's such as 15,22 and 10000. Are the actually genuine? Cheers

I appreciate that the NRM can't change the past collecting policy but in recent history you have to admit there have been a few odd decisions. I'm not anti NRM far from it, I'd love it to move forward with people in charge that are knowledgeable and passionate about the place rather the people who like the status and possibly the money. I'm certainly not saying that that is how the current management is focused, but they are being judged possibly unfairly by recent events and members of former management