'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."