NRM York

Gavin Sowry

Gavin Sowry

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Stopping off in York for a night from Scottish Highlands en route to London.

Any recommendations for hotels near the NRM? Don't want top dollar, don't want the pits, either.
 
Try here:

http://www.bar-convent.org.uk/

It is what it says and it was a place I would recommend to examiners and assessors coming to York for meetings. It is somewhere Diane and I go for lunch, too, when we are in York. And it's about 300 metres from the railway station so also handy for the NRM.
 
Cancel that! I've just looked in detail at their website, and the accommodation is being refurbished from 30th March until early July this year.
 
Why not try Booking.com, shows up a Map. Prices and Reviews. I use it all the time both in UK and Europe. Simples, you do not even have to pay till you get there. Just reserve with your card. But there are penalties if you cancel near the date if arrival.
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I've stayed at the York Premier Inn several times, it's not bad
 
Watch where you drive, York Council are very creative with pop up bus lanes with zero signage, you find out about them 2 months later when the £30 fine pops through the post box. Just google Lendal bridge bus lane, they got me on my last NRM visit
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Stopping off in York for a night from Scottish Highlands en route to London.

Any recommendations for hotels near the NRM? Don't want top dollar, don't want the pits, either.
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The Sidings hotel, York is definitely different, great if your a rail enthuast I stayed there in February this year, great food as well
http://www.thesidingshotel.co.uk/
 
Jeremy Viewing said:
Watch where you drive, York Council are very creative with pop up bus lanes with zero signage, you find out about them 2 months later when the £30 fine pops through the post box. Just google Lendal bridge bus lane, they got me on my last NRM visit
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The Lendal Bridge experiment has been ended, and the signage was quite clear and it was a legal technicality over a matter of millimetres that led to the signage being declared illegal.
 
playmofire said:
The Lendal Bridge experiment has been ended, and the signage was quite clear and it was a legal technicality over a matter of millimetres that led to the signage being declared illegal.
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The facts, adjudicators decision. http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/resources/files/31754
 
OK,I accept not millimetres and not the best of signage, but let's be quite frank about it, lots of people just ignored the closure because it was convenient for them to do so. I don't live in York but I knew about the closure and didn't use the bridge when I visited York. For people who lived in and around York, it was pretty well impossible not to know about the closure of Lendal Bridge because it was regularly on the local news (radio and TV) and in the York papers. I would have sympathy for the visitor who got caught, but not for the regulars.
 
Gavin
Premier Inn York North at Clifton, free parking and you can catch a bus into town across the road. I would avoid driving in town centre if you are not local and car parking is not cheap (by yorkshire standards.......... :D) no driving means you can sample some good Yorkshire beer too........ :D

PS
NRM is still free however they do like you to make a contribution.
You may also like NRM annexe at Shildon lots of shiny loco's there too if you have time.
Enjoy your stay in Yorkshire and please come again...................... :)
 
Have a good'un mate - but give yourself a LOT of time to get round - brilliant fascinating place! Makes me ashamed of our so-called "State" museum at Bassendean, which is much like Barry Island!. Which is an unfair comment, as it gets no Government funding...maybe I should be ashamed of that fact.... >:(


you'll have a fantastic time at the NRM :D :D :D
 
playmofire said:
Try here:

http://www.bar-convent.org.uk/

It is what it says and it was a place I would recommend to examiners and assessors coming to York for meetings. It is somewhere Diane and I go for lunch, too, when we are in York. And it's about 300 metres from the railway station so also handy for the NRM.
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>:( Tried.... closed for refurbishment until July.
 
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Jeremy Viewing said:
Watch where you drive, York Council are very creative with pop up bus lanes with zero signage, you find out about them 2 months later when the £30 fine pops through the post box. Just google Lendal bridge bus lane, they got me on my last NRM visit
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Have you applied for re-imbursement. The Lendal Bridge fiasco has resulted in refunds of fines. There is also the Coppergate case as well.
Chech York Press for previous details.

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12903662.28_000_drivers_demand_Lendal_Bridge_refunds___Bill_hits___700_000/
 
Gavin Sowry said:
Stopping off in York for a night from Scottish Highlands en route to London.

Any recommendations for hotels near the NRM? Don't want top dollar, don't want the pits, either.
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There are some good B&B's in the Bootham area. It is always best to walk in York, it is very flat. There is a 'road train. that runs from near the Minster to the NRM, free of charge.
 
The Devonian said:
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Have you applied for re-imbursement. The Lendal Bridge fiasco has resulted in refunds of fines. There is also the Coppergate case as well.
Chech York Press for previous details.

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/12903662.28_000_drivers_demand_Lendal_Bridge_refunds___Bill_hits___700_000/
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Thanks did that via their web site on the 17/09/14 still have not received a refund! Jeremy
 
Did anybody see the article in the latest Heritage Railway mag about the original museum at York...I remember visiting at @age 12...
 
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