Date: 22/04/2020

A heritage railway is warning it may not survive the coronavirus pandemic if further help is not provided.
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) says it cannot claim compensation for lack of business or part of the £750 million pledged to the charity sector by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak.
The steam railway, which runs between Pickering and Whitby has delayed the opening of its 2020 season indefinitely, and risk collapse without appropriate funding.

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CORONAVIRUS: Railway warns it may not survive the pandemic

Gazette & Herald

A HERITAGE railway is warning it may not survive the coronavirus pandemic if further help is not provided.

North York Moors Historical Railway Trust - NYMR

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Railway Conservation. Run by Volunteers. Not for Profit.

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The term 'Walkies!' takes on a whole new sense of urgency on the morning of 2 October 2008, as ex-SR class S15 4-6-0 No 825 puts in a sudden and unexpected appearance round the curve east of Sleights foot crossing with a through NYMR service from Whitby to Pickering.
Location: Sleights
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
02/10/2008 John Furnevel

Sure footed and with clear exhaust, BR Standard Class 4MT 4-6-0, No. 75029 ascends the 1 in 49 bank between Grosmont and Goathland with a six-coach set at Darnholm on the NYMR, having departed Whitby at 14.00 on 22 May 2015.
Location: Darnholm
Company: Whitby and Pickering Railway
22/05/2015 Brian Taylor

WD Austerity 2-10-0 3672 Dame Vera Lynn tiptoes down the bank from Goathland to Grosmont in 1992.
Location: Goathland
Company: Goathland Deviation (North Eastern Railway)
//1992 Colin Miller

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