NYMR - Volunteer cleaner training on 9F 92134 to become a fireman

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As part of the training to becoming a steam driver, footplate volunteers start as a 'Cleaner' at the motion power depot (MPD). Duties involve lighting locos on a morning (5am) in preparation for the days service, cleaning the locos and learning about how steam locos work through practical (on the job training), classroom training and self learning.

As part of being a cleaner, volunteers get to go out on the locos with the rostered fireman and driver and receive practical training to help them progress to the 'Fireman' grade. This involves firing the steam loco and learning the route and gradients to help them become competent fireman. The practical training also involves coupling and uncoupling the loco from the train, manging the boiler water levels on the various gradients on line and learning the signals and rules that are required to perform the duties of the fireman.

The process from cleaner to fireman usually takes several years.