North Yorkshire Moors Railway is planning to rely more on volunteers and less on paid staff as it faces ongoing financial challenges amidst falling visitor numbers.<br /><br />The steam railway visitor attraction which runs along an 18-mile line through the Moors is also seeking to “change the demographic” of its existing volunteer base to make its helpers “more varied in age and more diverse”.<br /><br />Details have been revealed in recently-published accounts from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Trust covering the year to February which said the organisation has been through a “perfect storm of post Covid impacts, cost increases, the cost of living crisis and one-off events on and off the railway conspiring to test staff and volunteers”.<br /><br />
