Volunteering

Looking for a way to give back to your community while having and making new friends? Join us as a volunteer! Our organization offers a variety of opportunities to get involved and make a difference. Sign up today and start making a positive impact in your community!

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We offer a wide range of volunteering opportunities that cover virtually every aspect of our railway activities. Whether you're interested in manual work or not, we have plenty of choices for you. Volunteering is a great way to meet new, gain valuable skills, and achieve a real sense of accomplishment. Join us today and make a difference!

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Volunteers are needed for:

• Selling tickets in our booking offices at Dereham & Wymondham Abbey

• Organising and running a variety of events in conjunction with our Events Co-ordinator

• Being a platform supervisor & helping passengers with queries and providing help boarding & alighting trains

• Working with our Operations Team as a signaller, driver, secondman, fireman, guard, crossing keeper, shunter, cleaner & much more

• Catering at our Dereham & County School Tea Rooms, on board with our Afternoon Tea & Dining trains

• Signal maintenance & development

• Working with our shop, refreshment & museum teams

• Keeping our rolling stock clean, running & maintained

• Keeping our station clean & tidy

• Restoring & maintaining our stations & gardens

• Skilled work: such as welders, builders, plumbers, electricians, carpenters etc

• Keeping the track and associated structures maintained

• Managing the vegetation & environmental ecosystem along our beautiful line

• Maintaining our drains, bridges & structures 

• And so much more...

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With a variety of tasks, our railway can often be likened to a small town. No matter how you choose to help, everyone plays an important part in ensuring the railway can operate trains and our visitors enjoy their visit. Don't feel apprehensive, we all started from scratch!

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Training of volunteers: Training is available for all of the jobs that we offer, with some jobs only requiring a few hours of training and others in our operations department with months/years required. In order to become a volunteer, you need to be a member of The Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust. This means that, when you are working as a volunteer, you are covered by the railway's insurance. Full details about becoming a member can be found here.

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Interested...

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer for the railway please get in touch with our Volunteers Co-Ordinator (volunteer@mnr.org.uk) who will be more than happy to help you. Alternatively if you do not have access to email come along to Dereham Station between Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm, and one of our team will be happy to help.