Rmweb Andy York RIP

[steventrain]

Rmweb link.

https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/191896-andy-york/#comment-5794380

Edited Wednesday at 16:38 by steventrain

[Broithe]

This is very sad news. I knew Andy slightly in the real world. We lived in the same area and he participated in the local forum that I police. He was noted for being a voice of sanity on there.

I met him a few times at the local exhibition, but the first time was when I bought his ladders off him and he revealed both his identities to me, the ladders having been advertised on the forum. The ladders were superfluous, as they were moving to a bungalow. The ladders were immaculate, as was his way with most things.

His last post on our other forum was on March 10th, thanking me for the 'birthday cake' I had posted for his 62nd birthday.

He was last on there on March 14th, but he was never a prolific poster (67 in 12 years) and absences of a few weeks weren't unusual.

I will miss him via both forums and in the real world.

[Warbonnet]

We were floored by the news of Andy's passing yesterday in IRM central. It's probably unknown to many, but Andy was a massive help to IRM and then Accurascale as we got into this industry with information and guidance around the market. Indeed, he was of help as we got tangled up with the infamous DJ Models in our early days and even was our product photographer at one point and helped us recruit some of our team, including Paul who has designed the Hunslet, Park Royals, 800s and ICRs. 

Myself and @BosKonay chatted to Andy regularly, and indeed Stephen assisted RMWeb with hosting and in recent times, a switch to the same software as this forum which went down very well among membership.

He was a true pillar of the modelling community, brought many thousands of modellers together, encouraged and assisted us younger manufacturers to help us thrive and someone I counted as a friend. 

Still cant quite believe it. 

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam

[DJ Dangerous]

I'm almost sure that it was Andy who interviewed @Warbonnet and @Garfield many years back, shortly after the launch of Accurascale, where they were discussing the 21mm capabilities of the ballast chassis, at one of the shows.

Even though I didn't know him, it's sad to hear of the hobby losing another valued member.

Thoughts to his family and friends,

R.I.P.

[Broithe]

44 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

I'm almost sure that it was Andy who interviewed @Warbonnet and @Garfield many years back, shortly after the launch of Accurascale, where they were discussing the 21mm capabilities of the ballast chassis, at one of the shows.

Even though I didn't know him, it's sad to hear of the hobby losing another valued member.

Thoughts to his family and friends,

R.I.P.

His response, when I reported on that video on our other forum...

"Those boys from Dublin are trying to entice me into trip over and making me believe drinking Guinness is part of my job"

Edited Friday at 10:40 by Broithe