The Milang Historic Railway cafeteria is operated by a wonderful team of volunteers who give their time, energy and personal resources so that the museum can offer visitors simple, quality café food and beverages.
One of these unsung volunteer heroes is the quiet and very low-profile Harold Fellows. Harold is usually to be found in the kitchen section of the cafeteria railway car busily feeding plates, cups and utensils into the dishwasher machine. It is a tough gig for Harold as the rest of the railway cafeteria volunteer team are all women with a tendency to talk non-stop while they prepare food orders. It is an efficient team that works quickly in harmony to produce hamburgers, steak sandwiches, Devonshire teas with scones and several other inexpensive menu choices.
Harold lived in Tasmania and was a farmer. He met his partner and railway cafeteria volunteer colleague Sheila there before they both moved to the mainland and worked in remote settlements and stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Harold enjoys being a volunteer because he likes to keep busy doing something useful and productive but mostly because he says the volunteer team have fun working together.
Asked how he endures being bossed around by his chattering female volunteer colleagues in the busy kitchen environment, Harold explained that all he has to do is pretend to be injured to bring out the maternal, protective instincts of the ladies.