Yorkshire's Magnificent JourneyYORKSHIRE'S MAGNIFICENT JOURNEYDelivering our £10 million future vision Yorkshire's Magnificent Journey is our £10 million project to ensure that future generations can continue to enjoy our 180 year old railway for decades to come. Over the past 5 years we’ve been busy delivering 7 unique initiatives. The project concludes in 2024 and you can find out more below about what we’ve already achieved and what’s still to come. Bridge Renewals We’ve replaced three crucial bridges along our railway to ensure that we can keep the trains running well into the future. The new bridges have replaced ones that were over 150 years old and starting to show their age. Find Out More Fuss Free Access We’ve made improvements to help ensure that our site is as accessible as possible for all to enjoy and feel included. This includes new specially adapted accessible carriages, enhanced signage and accessible maps. Find Out More Carriage Stable We have built a new £4 million carriage stable at Pickering to provide better care for our historic carriages. The new facility provides covered storage for up to 40 carriages and is making our work to care for and maintain the collection much easier. Find Out More Goathland Learning & Interpretation We are busy developing our learning programmes and have launched a fresh new programme of activities to engage young people with the railway. We have transformed the former pigeon van at Goathland into a new learning coach and have launched a new app. Find Out More Volunteer Development We have invested in volunteering including creating new volunteer opportunities across our departments and providing training and support to help volunteer development. We have also created the Outstation at Stape - a residential centre providing high quality volunteer accommodation. Find Out More Apprentices Our new apprenticeship scheme is helping young people gain the skills they need for a future in heritage railways. Our apprentices are working alongside our staff in engineering and lineside conservation. Find Out More Lineside Conservation Our lineside conservation project is helping to care for the land either side of our railway tracks. Our conservation work includes habitat surveys, practical conservation tasks and the creation of educational resources to help our visitors understand more about wildlife and conservation. Find Out More Sign Up for Fundraising News YMJ Home News Our Work News NYMR launches appeal to find former railway workers The UK’s most popular heritage line, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, has launched a search for people who worked on the railway before 1965, to capture their memories for future generations. These reminiscences will be used for the launch of the Oral History Project, as part of Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey - an ambitious initiative set up by NYMR dedicated to preserving the railway and its heritage. The £10 million project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and supporters of the NYMR. The Oral Histories Project will explore the roles of railway workers including signalmen, station staff, platelayers, ticketing clerks and tell the true stories of people who worked on this line. These interviews will also be used to help bring to life the new interactive exhibition, ‘In Fog and Falling Snow’ planned for Goathland Station for 2021. As part of the project, the charitable trust is also looking for volunteers to help transcribe the recordings, with the goal to have all interviews completed by the end of May 2020. Jennifer Halmshaw, Trust Board Member, Chair of Education & Education Champion for the Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey’s Project at North Yorkshire Moors Railway said: “We are looking for participants who worked on this remote rural railway - or whose family did - to take part in recorded interviews so we can share their memories and showcase life on the railway more than 50 years ago! “We’ll be holding interviews at Pickering Station, or, for those unable to get to us, we’re more than happy to arrange home visits.” For more information, if you would like to arrange an interview or, to nominate someone to take part in the Oral History Project please contact [email protected] or call 01751 473799 *248. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is an award-winning charitable trust that carries 300,000 unique passengers every year. It is Britain’s most popular heritage railway and is one of the best visitor attractions in the North East. nymr.co.uk/YMJ The NYMR trust relies heavily on donations and the work of its many volunteers. The 180-year old railway needs to raise £1million by 2022 so its railway bridges and its 50-100-year-old vehicles can remain viable. The NYMR cares for operating and developing the railway it owns from Pickering to Grosmont in accordance with its charity objectives. The heritage railway operates over Network Rail from Grosmont to Whitby. The charity provides a high quality, safe and authentic evocation of the steam age for the public. The NYMR is an Educational Charitable Trust. Providing education for all ages. The railway is a fully accredited museum. 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