Packed trains and crowded platforms – a heritage railway shows its worth

CROWDED trains, crowded platforms, crowded carparks, and crowds of lineside spectators and photographers, were a dominant feature of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) annual steam gala at the end of September, a splendid event which Heritage Railway covered in depth last issue.

Among the sea of humanity, youngsters were overawed and their parents transfixed, and in the background the tills were ringing in the busy booking halls and refreshment rooms, as well