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Not 100% as I'm not a signaller , but I used to drive the route. The box is literally on the overground station. As for where they control to I don't know .

Oh I didn't mean totally bin them off. But Thameslink only took on trainees until recently and have for the first time in many years recruited qualified. Also Lner in Newcastle hadn't taken qualified until recently. I meant that some tocs only took trainees and now they want qualified. Of course...

£100 is more than your car is worth ;)

Seem to be moving away from the apprenticeship route now.

Overground drivers got a pay deal this year backdated one for 2023 plus RPI for this year and next year.

Hopefully they get a move on.

I did wonder that , however it could just be bad luck. I always travel in uniform on my toc and one other , but strangely I only ever get asked questions when actually working and changing ends. Never get it going or coming home from work and neither do my colleagues that live and travel the...

Why is travelling in uniform no fun ?

Well we don't know what you currently earn , but you could come into the industry but live within your current means so if you don't like it you aren't dependent on the money. I would also be stuck , however I still love train driving. I have considered other options but that's because I seem to...

Still trying to work out why you keep turning up in a traffic warden uniform :D

To be honest though it's harder for our dm's because you are a nightmare to manage ;)

Watched it live and knew it was a rhetorical question straight away.

Well you are that one person in the depot that can start an argument in an empty room o_O :D

If you want intense metro work , London Overground are now the highest paid company after Eurostar.

Yes but not guaranteed

Because it's not about Sundays , but good point bringing them up. Part of the problem is that there are different Sunday rules. 1 : some TOCs it's part of the working week . 2: some it's an extra day and overtime . 3: some you can opt out . So let's say ASLEF accepted the payrise which is a...

Probably in the early days when many trains didn't have anywhere near the equipment and went slow. I mean if I showed someone how to drive a train and not much else they could probably do it, but to not have an incident would require a very much slower speed as you can't drive on site.

The fact that the ex colleague wasn't stuck during a strike but an overtime ban says it all. Even if we weren't striking she would have been inconvenienced. But I guess people think we aren't allowed days off and we should work them too . It's overtime and sometimes we would rather be with...

Yes I wrote that wrong. They were offered the chance but 850 came back ( many retired etc )Btw they were employed by the federal government and had sworn an oath not to strike and indeed striking was illegal officially for them. Train drivers here haven't sworn that oath and striking isn't...

To be fair , what do you expect staff to do. I know many train managers getting hacked off with people who are anti social and those kinds of people will abuse the staff too. People on here complain about rent a cop security and the police are stretched and unless the person or people are...