Oral history interview with Tony Oldfield

Oral history interview with Tony Oldfield conducted and recorded by a NRM volunteer on 25 June 2012, at the National Railway Museum. Duration: 45 minutes. Started volunteering at NRM information point, producing rosters for volunteers; rosters for Railfest; research one day a week; rosters for locomotives and volunteer lunch breaks; interviewing volunteers; [00:05:00] Railfest event, Queens jubilee and York anniversary, cab access, large site, opportunity to visit locomotives;[00;10;00] volunteers supervising queues, everything successful, enjoyable, safety briefing each day, various levels of volunteers, some experienced; [00:15:00] volunteers flexibility, over 200 people, bad weather required more safety personnel, shortage at certain times; [00:20:00] non NRM locomotives on loan for event, locomotives movement; nine days of rain challenging; ponchos provided; walking nine miles a day; [00:25:00] success of Railfest, everyone enjoyed it; previous project management experience; still enjoys research; [00:30:00] why he started volunteering after retiring; quickly enjoyed working with public; volunteers enjoying being there and with the public; dealing with a cancelled event, naming Chinook helicopter event at the museum, story of doing something special for a young visitor who had come especially; [00:35:45] story providing cab access for a child with a learning disability; volunteer with a learning disability; diversity amongst volunteers, some travel from far to come to museum; [00:40:20] help from family for Railfest, including family members in promotional material for the museum; personal view of matters most at museum as a volunteer; personal enjoyment in volunteering and coming to the museum [00:45:07] [end of interview]

Oral history recording made as part of a NRM oral history of volunteering initiative led by NRM volunteering team between 2012 and 2015, with the aim to record the voices of people sharing their volunteering experiences at the National Railway Museum, including NRM colleagues supervising volunteers.