Just when everything seemed to be progressing so well, there was a change  that was now going threaten the whole future of the railway at was being more and more regarded as a museum for the Trolleybus. We were collecting items of domestic interest (old radios, TV's, bicycles and a donation of a car badge collection worth at least £10,000 for the 1950's & 60's displays) but were called "rammel" (in other words a load of old rubbish) by a director in a letter he submitted in a Board of Directors report that I still have in my Directors files.

Just part of the collection in the owners garage before being logged and removed. The Bentley badge is valued at £55 presently, Rammel/Rubbish? If it had been a Sunbeam Trolleybus badge would it have been called Ramell? We worked hard to obtain to collect different items of transport interest other than trolleybuses something that would compliment them. It is only today that it realised that trolleybuses alone will not keep the visitors interested.

Other issues were causing confrontation at the museum that of Health & Safety.  Ken Hulks one of our members and a member of the STC Board of Directors tried hard to implement Health & Safety regulations. He sought money for signs from the then Director of Finances. He was refused expenditure for signs and Risk Assessment documentation and training. He was told by several members of the Board "if you put up signs you had to obey them, my local café does not have them". I wonder if the HSE and for that matter the Food & Hygiene inspectors ever had a look at that café? 
Even the Museum's members signing in book as required by Fire Regulations was removed by a group of members and to my knowledge destroyed. That  book would have been very useful for fund matching. About £10,000 worth of fund matching was lost due to this act by those that disagreed with the signing in book. The signing in time of "1201" was noticed as very common entry, this being the number of a trolleybus that was under restoration at the museum.
The railway had implemented a Health & Safety structure that based on that set up by Mick Leak for the Shipley Glen Tramway. (Copies of all our HSE documentation are still in our possession) and has since proved a useful guide for the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway. We were surrounded by what appeared to be some very some very high risk situations.     

What might be a nice peaceful summer scene is not what it might look. This inconsiderate act of what seems at best sheer laziness and the worst what many of the railway group concluded was a deliberate act of vandalism by a museum member working in the Axholme Stores.  The level crossing boards were never intended to take the weight of a car and three had to be replaced and others re-fixed by our members. Also the owner of the car prevented any operations of a the train service for the next few days.