Vintage Trains, which operates heritage rail tours, is expanding its engineering and tourism services and is looking to recruit around ten additional staff.
The company is a subsidiary of Birmingham Railway Museum Trust, and is based at Tyseley Locomotive Works. Tyseley Locomotive Works currently has a full order book until 2024, but currently does not have the capacity to handle the increasing number of requests for engineering work that it receives.
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To fulfil those requests, Tyseley Locomotive Works is looking for the following engineering staff:
- fitter/machinists;
- boilermakers;
- welder/fabricators.
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As well as adding to its engineering team, Vintage Trains is expanding its tourist services and requires the following additional staff:
- a Commercial Manager;
- an Accountant;
- passenger sales and marketing assistants, who should have experience with social media.
Anyone interested in applying for these positions should should email [email protected]Â with their cv and salary expectations.
Vintage Trains is a charitable trust, and its founders were world pioneers in establishing heritage railways and its main line operations. It is based at Tyseley Locomotive Works in Birmingham where it has established a thriving heritage engineering workshop with a reputation for delivering first-class services to heritage railways throughout the country.
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At the same time is preserving the skills of the steam age and training young people in manufacturing and to keep those skills alive.
In 2017, Vintage Trains established a Community Benefit Society to establish and develop its own train operating company, which is licensed to run express steam trains nationwide, and currently offers a range of tours including:
- The Shakespeare Express providing tours to Shakespeare’s county of Warwickshire between Birmingham and Stratford-on-Avon;
- The Polar Express Train Ride from Birmingham at Christmas;
- Diesel Explorer rail tours to various popular tourist destinations and seaside towns;
- Express Steam Trains that relive the steam age running at up to 75 mph on the main line;
- Private special trains offering tours tailor-made to individual groups.
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