Recent content by lauderlight

What additional NYMR parking at Pickering? The NYMR only own the original car park. The car park on the right (before you enter the original car park) isn't owned by the NYMR, its a private enterprise. There is overflow parking at the Trout Farm crossing (near the carriage stable) but I doubt...

The whole York Central teardrop area has been a mess for a couple of years, with little signs of progress until recently. There is another set of temporary lights further up Leeman Road as it turns to dive under the ECML. It'll be interesting to see what happens when a third track is put in...

The second loco off new bridge in the morning usually pulls the internal stock of coaches. It's usually 4/5 coaches on an internal diagram only. The return journey is a Grosmont- pickering one, usually before the last whitby - pickering one. 65894 or 29 can cope with 4/5 up the bank. They...

Isn't there an national grid underground cable practically next to the track at Tweedbank? Basically between the road and the track. isn't there "danger underground electric cables" signs next to the road. There's also a pretty substantial electricity substation just across the Tweed in...

Especially now with the all year rover ticket. You could drive to Pickering, park up in an non-NYMR car park, stock up on food from aldi/co-op/anywhere in the market place, go to Whitby for the day, have fish and chips and an ice cream (its the law!), get train back and spend nowt on the NYMR...

I would say: 45428 Eric Tracey 44806 "magpie" 80136 std4 tank 80135 std4 tank 75029 "The Green Knight" 30926 "Repton" 30825 "Greene King" - owned by Essex Loco Society but based at Grosmont 63395 NER T2/LNER Q6 - owned by NELPG but based in Deviation Shed 65834 LNER J27 - as above. 91234 9F 29...

Having seen first hand the some of the hoops the NYMR have had to jump through to get regular services to Whitby, I can see why this might be a non starter. To run on Network Rail: 1. the heritage railway has to be registered as a TOC. 2. The engines and stock have to be mainline registered...

Those 4 train times (1055/1235/1410/1640) are allocated to the P2 footplate diagram which is: the second loco off new bridge yard (if steam, this is usually a small loco like P3(J27) or Lambton tank (29) Short set (4/5 coaches) P2 footplate diagram (0815-1925). Possible causes are: Problems...

Platform 4 is currently a dead end siding as the north end has suffered some subsidence from old iron ore workings. 2392 on tuesday was suffering from priming and promptly spewed it's guts up at the bottom of the bank. Every time the regulator was put into big valve, it primed so it had to...

Not quite a city, but wasn't there plans to increase housebuilding in the central borders after the railway came to Tweedbank? Effectively turning Gala-Tweedbank-Melrose-Newtown-St boswells into one large town? And there was a plan to build a e-village just to the south of Lauder whereby the...

Tweedbank was built in the 1970s as a dry village. Herges' has only been there a few years. Why do you think the Black Path to Gala is so popular with walkers and cyclists? Best option is either getting off in Gala or testing the new integrated Borders public transport system and getting a...