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Thank you for your enquiry about finding about the opportunities to help the North Yorkshire Moors Railway by becoming a volunteer. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to participate, to spend as much or as little time as you feel able helping us to run the best heritage railway in the world. Please come and spend a day with us and see for yourself.

The day will start at 10 o’clock in the Learning Centre Platform 2 at Pickering, and you will have an opportunity to meet many of the people who already participate in the railway. You can talk first hand with them and many other people in the wide variety of departments and supporting groups that makes up the railway, and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

We will be providing welcoming refreshments when you first arrive, and you will be asked to register, and confirm your interests. On receipt of this form you will be given a travel voucher that will also entitle you to unlimited train travel, and working volunteer discount in the tea rooms for the day.

If you are uncertain about which department you want to work in, or change your mind after talking to the people present, do not worry, give them your name and address, and better still make arrangements to come back for a day to join in.

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A train departs from Pickering at 11 o’clock and accommodation has been reserved on it for you to travel. You may alight and rejoin at any station, but please take the opportunity to visit the places that most interest you, and spend a little time getting to know the people there.

When you have seen enough you may return to Pickering by any train.

Please download and complete this form (Click here to download the form) before you come to Pickering on date tbc, you can post it or hand it in when you arrive, BUT you must let me know you will be coming in advance, so I can have your travel voucher ready. You can do that by telephone (01751-473799), email (david.monksteel@nymr.co.uk), or by letter (12 Park Street, Pickering, YO18 7AJ).

Of course if you cannot come on this day but you are still wanting to find out more please contact any of the following and we will do our best to help you.

Pickering Station Group – Graham Higgins – 01751 472968
Levisham Station Group – Simon Barraclough – 01904 671214
Goathland Station Group – John Bruce – 01947 896012
Grosmont Station Group – John Alexander – 01642 501916
Coach Maintenance & Overhaul – Jerry Hawley – 01751 477465
Coach Restoration ( LNER Teak) – Murray Brown – 01733 570160
Wagon Restoration – Adrian Scales – 01723 366974
Locomotive Footplate – Martin Lloyd – 07970 851895
Locomotive Restoration – Martin Lloyd – 07970 851895
Signal & Telecoms Engineering – David Torbet – 01642 819916
Information Technology – Paul Taylor – 07973 326716
Track Work (Permanent Way) – John Hasler – 01904 416415
Operating Dept (Guards, Signalmen, etc) – John Bruce – 01947 896012
Buildings and Works (incl. Plumbing and electrical) – Neil Hugill – 01751 473799
Catering, Shops & Customer Services - Paul Brown – 01751 473799
Marketing - Danielle Bradley – 01751 473799
Education & Junior Volunteers – Maria Vinnels – 01751 473799
Administration & offers of professional assistance – Philip Benham, General Manager – 01751 473799
General Volunteering enquiries – John Bruce – 01947 896012

Gallery from 2009 event