Jobs fair tomorrow at Wolsingham Town Hall from 9am to 4pm (From The Northern Echo)

Jobs fair tomorrow at Wolsingham Town Hall from 9am to 4pm

8:29am Tuesday 16th March 2010

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A TRAINEE engine driver is one of 16 people being recruited by a tourist railway at a jobs fair tomorrow.

Weardale Railway, in County Durham, has been given money from the Government’s Future Jobs Fund to take on the workers at Stanhope Station and its depot in Wolsingham.

More than 100 people have expressed an interest in the jobs, which will start this month, and will include at least five apprenticeships as well as a driver and cafe staff.

The railway is expanding into freight after operating as a heritage line.

Its plans to build a coalloading depot in Wolsingham have faced fierce opposition from residents, although they are welcomed by people in nearby Toft Hill and Fir Tree, who do not want coal lorries passing homes on the A68.

Arthur Temple, from the Weardale Railway Trust, said: “The jobs are a tremendous opportunity and we hope they will go to local people. If we can get people into work that otherwise would not have jobs, it will be a real achievement.

“There is a lot happening.

We have had two charter trains to Stanhope and another four are coming. It puts a lot of work on the volunteers to cope with.

“The jobs are for six months so they will take us over the summer but we hope they will continue.

“They will get people into the way of working, which is a good thing.”

Advisors from Job Centre Plus, Groundwork North-East, the railway and other groups will be at the fair, in Wolsingham Town Hall from 9am to 4pm.

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