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.
To fulfil those requests, Tyseley Locomotive Works is looking for the following engineering staff:
- fitter/machinists;
- boilermakers;
- welder/fabricators.
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 developments@vintagetrains.co.uk 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.
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.
