We are often asked to outline the organisational structure of our historic railway, to identify the key personnel and to provide an outline of their responsibilities.

This page responds to those queries and hopefully puts faces to names that you may encounter on other parts of the website.

If you are interested in contributing to SteamRanger in any of the identified areas, please approach the responsible Board of Management member or team leader or email us at info@steamranger.org.au

Professionally, Barrie is an Estimator Administrator with the Mossop Group. He is an Associate of the Institute of Building and holds an unrestricted builders license.

He has been an active SteamRanger volunteer for 40 years and was previously an ARHS Councillor and a member of the Board of Management.

Bev joined ARHS / SteamRanger in 1988, ang over the years has worked in most train operations areas, initially in catering, then as a train manager, guard and station master and volunteer roster officer. With the closure of our full time office at Mt Barker in 2000 Bev took over a wide range of administrative responsibilities on a voluntary basis and most recently has also become one of our train booking team. She is an active member of the SHR Operations Committee

Professionally, John is the Chief Financial Officer for a private company and is a Fellow of CPA Australia. He has been employed in financial management for over 40 years and has been a SteamRanger volunteer for 30 years.

Prior to April 2005 John was a member of the Board of Management, filling the position of SteamRanger Accountant

Daryl initially joined us some 10 years ago as an outplaced tradesman when the workshops facilities at the Defence Research Centre Salisbury were being wound down. Very soon thereafter he was appointed as a full time SHR employee and worked with Fitter-in Charge, Ron Williams, on a broad range of workshop tasks at both our Dry Creek and Mt Barker depots, specialising in later years in carriage restoration and maintenance of our diesel railcars.

In recent years, following retirement of members of our track infrastructure team, he has taken over responsibility for track maintenance under direction of our Infrastructure Manager. In addition to his paid duties, Daryl contributes significant time as a volunteer to maintenance of our railcar fleet and is a qualified diesel loco and railcar engineman.

Shaun joined us in mid 2010 as Mt Barker workshop fitter, following a search to find a replacement for long serving fitter-in-charge Ron Williams who retired in late 2009. He comes from Queensland, where he was educated in the TAFE system and was then employed in a company who were contracted to undertake plant maintenance at the BP Refinery. Most of this work was associated with high pressure steam and turbines. He quickly progressed to a Fitter and Turner in the Maintenance Workshop. In 2007 BP took over their own maintenance work so Butch was then employed by BP.

He found out about our vacant position on the Internet and thought it sounded like a challenge. With his partner, Tania, coming from SA and desiring to return to SA to be closer to her family, the decision to join us seemed a good move. He has had little difficulty in transferring his skills from an oil refinery to a railway workshop. While his knowledge of steam locomotives is not deep, he is learning quite quickly.

Steve has been working for SteamRanger for 3 years as a member of the Infrastructure team

He initially worked full time supervising the work experience team upgrading the external appearance of Goolwa station and repairing the platform surface and fencing. He then moved to work on internally and externally upgrading Victor Harbor station. He is currently engaged on a range of infrastructure tasks including assisting Daryl with track rehabilitation along the line.

The youngest member of our Loco Team is 18 year old Oliver Lukins (Ollie for short) who has came to us at Mt Barker depot early in March 2004 - initially working 3 1/2 days per week on a work experience basis. Since starting he has always been very keen to learn as much as possible about how locomotives work and the servicing and maintenance of them - so much so that he took away as many notes and books as he could lay his hands on, plus some loco parts, to study at home. He attended a Safeworking Course to start his training program well before reaching the minimum permissible age in order to gain a better understanding of train operations. Because of his enthusiasm and commitment, Ollie has regularly travelled on locomotives in support of his overall training

With the appointment of Shaun Cassidy as fitter-in-charge Ollie has been taken on as a formal apprentice at Mt Barker and is in parallel gaining practical on track experience as trainee observer / fireman.