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Driver Standards Manager at Paddington GWR for the Heathrow Express drivers. Minimum 3 years mainline driving experience required. https://www.firstgroupcareers.com/vacancy/great-western-railway-gwr-driver-standards-manager-020907-london-paddington-station---heathrow-express/20937/description/

ASLEF have announced today that it has withdrawn non-contractual overtime from 27th November https://aslef.org.uk/publications/flying-favours-aslef-withdraws-overtime-lner

Depends on the route you're potentially doing. RMT has called a strike of signallers at Didcot Thames Valley Signalling Centre for 5 and 7 November. The strike follows Network Rail’s dismissal of a signaller. Action includes crossing keepers, electrical control room operators and signalling...

Generally speaking, there are 2 moves from Paddington to Reading TCD in the evening and 2 back in the morning. Reading and Paddington (GWR) drivers cover these ECS moves.

Reading sign class 165/6 and 387s. Routes covered are: Paddington to Oxford. Reading to Bedwyn. Reading to Basingstoke. Slough to Windsor. Maidenhead to Marlow. Twyford to Henley and then depending on link, Reading to Gatwick Airport.

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It's a capacity issue in that electric traction can't use lines 1 and 2. Network Rail plan to work on this overnight tonight - should this work go well, a full service will resume tomorrow.

1p53 0846 pbo-kgx 365517/365521 1p13 0919 pbo-kgx 365515/365518/365502 2p04 0735 kgx-pbo 321418 2c41 0955 cbg-kgx 365525 1p67 1446 pbo-kgx 365523 1t19 0857 kln-kgx 365511/365539 1c46 0852 kgx-cbg 365534

ASLEF drivers vote to strike 23 May 2016 Mick Whelan, general secretary, has welcomed the strong mandate from GTR Southern & Gatwick Express members who have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking action over the dispute concerning the extension of driver only operations. 95.8% of our members...

This advert shows £32,665. https://jobs.chilternrailways.co.uk/recruiter/page_jobinfo.php?id=140

As part of the May timetable change there is going to be a Friday only relief service (my understanding is that we're unable to do it the whole week) http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/C44196/2016/05/20

That one I can't answer, sorry. My application was last year, but as I'm internal been told not to apply again as my previous application still counts.

I'm kinda going on the basis of why ask for more applications if nothing is going to happen. So I'm going to stay positive :)

Paddington, Reading and Oxford - the internal vacancy does still refer to a talent pool though, so it's no guarantee of progress. But I guess it's still a positive sign of some form of progress being made.

It was delayed by a tree on the line. There was a still a service Plymouth to Penzance which ran as 1Z73: http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/O81256/2016/03/28/advanced