Volunteering at more than one heritage railway.

[The Decapod]

I'm just wondering if it's commonplace for people to volunteer at more than one railway.

 

[Mvann]

I have done in the past. I know of a few people that volunteer at there local railway and also go to other railways for long weekends at holiday time.

 

[Tomnick]

Quite a few of our chaps volunteer at one or more other railways (quite often going for long weekends or a whole week if they're local to us). I carried on at the North Norfolk for a bit when I started on the GCR (having moved to live almost on the doorstep of the latter), but I couldn't commit enough time to do a proper job at both really.

 

[ralphchadkirk]

Yes, people do. Only thing to watch out about is that rules and procedures can be different. If you can keep on top of that then there won't be a problem.

 

[steamybrian]

Yes -I volunteer regularly at one railway in the South East and a few weeks a year at one in North Wales. I agree it sometimes be difficult where procedures vary slightly.
I aware aware of several members who also volunteer at two heritage railways.

 

[The Decapod]

Thanks. The reason I asked is that I volunteer at one local heritage railway and there's another one about the same distance away from my home. I'd like to go there from time to time, although I expect to continue devoting most of my volunteering hours at the line I go to now.

 

[scotsman]

I've done two - there's a lot of differences between my 'local' and my 'regular' and competency won't carry across, even in non-safety critical grades. I am an experienced TTI, at the Strathspey there is no assessment or formal passing out of TTIs - there is at this railway it turns out!

 

[paul1609]

I'm just wondering if it's commonplace for people to volunteer at more than one railway.[/QUOTE
I'm a volunteer at the kesr there's been a healthy exchange of volunteers with both the nymr and nnr for many years plus the odd ones with the bluebell and iowsr]




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I'm just wondering if it's commonplace for people to volunteer at more than one railway.[/QUOTE
I'm a volunteer at the kesr there's been a healthy exchange of volunteers with both the nymr and nnr for many years plus the odd ones with the bluebell and iowsr]

 

[StoneRoad]

I know that there are quite a few people that volunteer on one or more of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways, but then there are others who support only the one line.

Nationally, I would suspect that the percentage of volunteers who work at, or support more than one line, is around 10%. However, if you factor in other hobbies and volunteering for non-railways you might get that up to as much as a third, or even slightly more.

Personally, I'm in the latter group, as I am involved with a lot more than just my main railway.

StoneRoad

 

[AlexS]

I'd be interested to know where the 10% figure came from or if that is a random number plucked out of one's brain

I personally volunteer at one railway only, but I have in the past done the odd individual job elsewhere (erecting a signal at Levisham for the NYMR is one example).