I've never been a volunteer at the MHR nor the Talyllyn but in the way of volunteering at heritage railways, I've stuck my finger in many pies, since I was 16 years old (I'm nearly 33 now). From 2004, I helped out with the restoration of loco No. 4079 'Pendennis Castle', at Didcot, and I did that for about two or three years. As complicated as it may sound, I also had brief spells as an engine cleaner on the Bluebell Railway, the Lavender Line, and the Kent & East Sussex Railway as well as carrying out the same kind of work as I did at Didcot but at the West Somerset Railway as well. More recently (over the last four years), I had been carrying out platform duties at the South Devon Railway and until nine months ago (for a short time), I was a TTI at the Bodmin & Wenford Railway. Now, I even aim to divide my time between not only the SDR and the B&W but also between those and the East Kent Railway, too!
Love the look at another line, maybe when travel is allowed you could do a featured line a month? Absolutely hooked on these videos
The Talyllyn Railway - The Connection
Mid Hants Railway 'The Watercress Line' love louis shirley
I've never been a volunteer at the MHR nor the Talyllyn but in the way of volunteering at heritage railways, I've stuck my finger in many pies, since I was 16 years old (I'm nearly 33 now). From 2004, I helped out with the restoration of loco No. 4079 'Pendennis Castle', at Didcot, and I did that for about two or three years. As complicated as it may sound, I also had brief spells as an engine cleaner on the Bluebell Railway, the Lavender Line, and the Kent & East Sussex Railway as well as carrying out the same kind of work as I did at Didcot but at the West Somerset Railway as well. More recently (over the last four years), I had been carrying out platform duties at the South Devon Railway and until nine months ago (for a short time), I was a TTI at the Bodmin & Wenford Railway. Now, I even aim to divide my time between not only the SDR and the B&W but also between those and the East Kent Railway, too!
What really blows me away about welsh narrow guage railways is comparitevly how old it is and still all going