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I suppose it is pointless (pun intended) to have an extra long siding when you have no rolling stock to put on it. Pales into the background compared to £200m wasted on an airport that nobody uses abd a huge amount on not building the M4 relief road.

Err. Yes

Unfortunately, the WHR/FFR is being run just like a fairground ride at the moment. No travel between intermediate stations, just an "out and back" operation, complying with covid legislation that is no longer in force. No "proper" timetable with every train a "named train". Profitable, I expect...

Are you forgetting who owns Aysgarth station now?

If the trackbed is converted into a bridleway, it effectively removes the possibility of it ever becoming a railway again. Horses and trains don't mix. The upper dale is virtually all open access land anyway, apart from the valley bottom. With rising fuel costs and an uncertain world, private...

Good quality steam coal is apparently obtainable from Venezuela. Don't know about the cost though. For the UK to aim towards becoming self sufficient for energy is a no brainer. However, it takes long term planning and commitment that is not dependent on the whims of any political party. Not...

Germany are the fourth largest user of coal in the world and have around 130 years of usable strategic reserves, but somehow the "greenies" seem to have left them alone. Our own usable reserves are now negligible as virtually no mines have been adequately mothballed. Reliance on others for our...

The difference is that the service they are running is limited, with no spare capacity for those who "rock up" as you say. However, you seem intent on trying to "win" some pointless argument, so I will just leave you to it.

And then they will find that it is fully booked for the next couple of days (this was the case with FR/WHR last year), so will more than probably be a lost customer who will then tell friends not to bother. Not viable long term.

From my experience, with the general public, just the opposite is the case. They go for a day out (or a holiday) to a certain area and then notice a heritage train chuffing past, and decide to go for a ride. When you do a survey of passengers, a large number say their reason for visiting is...

The Ffestiniog had one of its most profitable seasons in 2021, being run like a theme park ride. Named trains all offering a different "experience". Most tickets sold in advance online, so no empty trains even in poor weather. All understandable under Covid restrictions, but I get the feeling...

I doubt whether Smith will be bothered about a few people wringing their hands over this.

The Rail Advent News is 12 months old. Loco was moved to Carnforth. See https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/dumbleton-hall-gwr-4900-class-steam-locomotive.214765/

AFAIK owned by Smith at Carnforth, so nothing would surprise me.

Eating less meat or using electric cars (or banning the use of coal on heritage railways) is not going to solve anything long term, but is just the latest way of the rich and powerful controlling and exploiting the rest of us. In my lifetime, world population has more than TREBLED. That is what...

YDR cafe at Bolton Abbey is excellent

The woman shouldn't have been walking her dog there either!! This is fenced off private property, not a public footpath. How close the tent is to the track is totally irrelevant. The "entitled" generation should be politely informed that trespass on a railway, any railway, is not only illegal...

Not a problem, except "facts" are rarely obtained from an open forum, unless you work for the RAIB, or are a witness to an event, either as a member of the public, or a member of staff/volunteer. Anything else is just someones opinion. Although that might not be a problem in itself, further...

I thought I was on the "Railtours and Preservation" forum? Is there a "Speculative Ideas" forum? Maybe you should start one.

Speculation, on here or indeed on Farcebook is a pastime for the under employed. Such threads only lead to more pointless uninformed speculation and should be heavily moderated.