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 YMJ Sponsorship The North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust is a not for profit charitable organisation run as part of the local community. Day to day operation is carried out by a wholly owned trading subsidiary whose Directors include volunteers with railway operations and business experience. Volunteers, together with approximately 100 full time and 50 seasonal staff, plan and operate the train service and work steadily to improve the quality of the infrastructure, the railway vehicles and the experience offered to National Park visitors and travellers on the railway. The NYMR is one of the busiest visitor attractions in Yorkshire and with 350,000 passengers each year, carrying more people than any other heritage steam railway. The NYMR sponsorship packages range from large to small events and brand association in our operating season, so if you would like your brand associated with one of the world's greatest railways, we have a package for you. Audience Type of visitors: Go for it Families (0-12 yrs) 60% and Empty-Nest Adventurers (45+) 40% Travelling from: Leeds, York, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull and East Coast Type of visit: 63% A day trip from home and 37% Overnight visit 78% Repeat Visits Yorkshire's Magnificent Journey Appeal The aim of Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey is to boost investment in the infrastructure and the activities of the railway to help ensure that it can continue to operate successfully for the next fifty years. Specific elements will: Renew and repair the worn-out iron bridges around Goathland, removing a threat to the NYMR’s continued operation (£2.67M). Provide a Fuss-free access carriage in every train, with ramps, loos and seating to easily accommodate the needs of all passengers, whatever their mobility (£770k). Construct a covered stable for up to 40 carriages at Pickering, reducing decay and easing maintenance of the irreplaceable carriage fleet (£4.16M). Better serve school groups and families with a dedicated education carriage at Goathland, building on success at Pickering and providing interpretation so visitors get more from their visit to a perfect country station (£330k). Create a new volunteer hostel at Grosmont, providing decent facilities to encourage new volunteers including families and young people (£450k). Develop initiatives to recruit new generations of volunteers to the line (£170k). Build a railway apprenticeship programme (£470k). Place a new emphasis on the care and management of the 18 miles of lineside (£170k). (The individual figures are approximate.) Contact Laura Strangeway, Head of Marketing, [email protected] | Tel: 01751 473799 ext. 249 Your support and generosity can help us achieve our goal, Yorkshire's Magnificent Journey! Donate Manage Cookie Preferences