A 6 year-old Director

""'I love trains and think I could do this job': Bosses touched by six-year-old's application to be National Rail Museum director""


He loves Thomas the Tank Engine, travelling on the Eurostar and watching his train set go round and round.

So when a vacancy opened up as director of the National Railway Museum Sam Pointon was confident he could do the job - despite being only six years old.

His letter, in which he outlined how he could control two trains at once, arrived with hundreds of other applications but stood out a mile.

In fact, the museum's bosses were so touched that they decided to offer Sam an honorary position as their Director of Fun.

He is now responsible for coming up with ideas to make the York museum more exciting for children.

And he has already suggested one to outgoing director Andrew Scott - a model train play area for children.

Sam, who has two older sisters - Molly, 12, and Grace, nine - also earned himself and his family a behind-the-scenes VIP tour of the museum which covers 400 years of railway history and houses more than 100 locomotives. ... READ MORE ....