Easter Sunday 20th April 20114 first train service of 2014 with Danny taking passenger around the circuit in the early afternoon. Usually more passengers arrive later in the afternoon.   

The two society coaches have been lowered with a foot boarding for younger passengers. To the right a start to the Easter event a little quiet to start with. However as below it looks like the ducks have been busy bring up their youngsters.   

The two society coaches have been lowered with a foot boarding for younger passengers. To the right a start to the Easter event a little quiet to start with. However as below it looks like the ducks have been busy bring up their youngsters.   

Easter Monday 21st April 2014 a few more passengers at the station brought out by the better weather and a Facebook message   

A few more passengers at the station brought out by the better weather, but at 3pm the staff again out numbered the passengers.  After some staff driver training the railway closed, The train and the one coach were returned to the shed. The middle photograph shows the last members exiting the park. I can remember a few years ago we had all on to close the railway by 5pm on the Easter Weekends.       

Easter 2010 by contrast shows how busy the railway could get with good publicity in the local papers and the local community radio station that has broadcast live from the drivers cab. The staff wore suitable clothing to identify them as staff, high visibility jackets etc. and most importantly safety shoes.

The lower left photograph shows myself broadcasting live from the TMCR FM outside PA and broadcast unit. Middle lower shows former members of the railway being interviewed for the radio station. To the right the first passenger is Gordon Sharpe the former TMCR Radio Station Manager broadcasting live from the coach.

Above with some of the proceeds of the tea and bric-a-bac stall that used to be operated by the publicity department materials for children's drawing could be provided.  Also another good fund raiser were the key rings that former railway member Davis Stubbins used to produce, Whether he has any still I will have to find out. All in all the operating days used to be a very social event for the visitors and the members but times do change I am afraid. Perhaps seeing theses photographs the present Directors and some of the present members might pull their fingers out and make some effort at providing better visitor faculties. Also some better publicity might help on the media instead of just hoping that bringing a locomotive with one coach is going to bring the visitors in like you see in 2010 photographs instead of mouthing at me like one of their members when I witnessed a derailment on the Sunday. Don't worry D…. I will not put the photographs on this website just yet.

Our Railless friends better known today as a trolleybus at the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft were kept busy carrying passenger for three days over the Easter weekend and some of the model and bookstalls did a good trade. The Manchester trolleybus stands alongside Doncaster's Last Trolleybus stood behind the British Trolleybus Society's stall. To the right the red Huddersfield trolleybus leads the line up followed by a former South Shields trolleybus then a Bradford vehicle, Bradford being the last place in the UK to operate trolleybuses in passenger service in march 1972. 

A group of Harley Davidson motorcycle enthusiasts parked the machines up in the central display area and enjoyed the museums attractions plus a meal and a cup of tea or coffee.   

The café, trolleybus simulator, displays are just but a few of the attractions for the visitors so essential to keep the visitors interested besides riding on the trolleybuses or taking a ride on a preserved motorbus around the Isle of Axholme area. If you would like more information about the museum please click here. 

Whilst on a visit to Robin Hoods Bay in North Yorkshire we stopped off at the Fimber Picnic Site for a break and cuppa break and a chance to see the Yorkshire Wolds Railway site.

Effectively the end of the line at the moment. To the right the rolling stock on site so far. A carriage and the ex-Trackworks diesel diesel-hydraulic shunter, purchased from a site near Doncaster, has now been delivered to their site! The locomotive was built in 1979 by GEC Traction, a British company founded in 1972 but which could trace its lineage right back to Robert Stephenson & Co. GEC has since been subsumed into the French Alstom company. The locomotive spent some time at Lindholme Prison.

Once a busy line between Malton and Driffield as below sadly it met the axe in 1958 if you would like further information about the line past and present visit their excellent website: