Peter Brumby interviewed by Tony Steadman

Oral history interview with Peter Brumby conducted and recorded by Tony Steadman on 15 January 2015 at the interviewee’s home. Duration: 23 minutes. Early interest in trains; memories of railways in East Yorkshire; Mallard; [00:05:00] visits to York station; London 1962-1965; Clapham bus museum; became volunteer on North Yorks Moors railway in 1970’s; [00:10:00] Queen street museum, York; visited National Railway Museum on opening and joined Friends in 1975; started volunteering at the information points in 1977; moved with information points maybe in 13 different positions; [00:15:00] experience in information point; search engine volunteering; research; travel time from home 50 mins restricts time volunteering to once a fortnight; photography; [00:20:00] volunteering on preserving a carriage on North Yorkshire Moors Railway; family research on railway managers [00:23:00] [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.