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Originally Posted by John H-T
Volunteering on a Heritage Railway tends to cost you money! Protective Clothing and getting there for starters! Then you often end up buying shares or making donations. In return you get lots of satisfaction and it keeps you off the streets etc.!
The one bonus is the Heritage Railway Pass which, for £22 per year, gets you reduced or even free travel for two people on most other Heritage Railways.
Best wishes,
John H-T
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As a member of a preserved railway, you are classed as an employee and as such, your employer is the preseved railway.
Any such PPE should be supplied free of charge from that employer. Should you injure yourself whilst so volunteering the railway is responsible for maintaning a safe working environment.
This is just the same as if you worked For a FOC or a passenger railway, and could be open to an employee making a claim for an accident at work.
PPE for traincrew would be heavy duty gloves, protective clothing and footware, and the provision of hard hats when going under the sole bar level when hooking on and off.
Above all Hi viz clothing, which some people on preseved railway do not
wear.EG Great Central Railway.