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Hi everyone, Congrats on all of your progress so far. I see that a load of you have done the OPC VSE test and wondered if anyone can give me any tips/ hints/ pointers? I've applied for Irish rail and I'm through to the second phase of assessments in Ireland and I'm travelling to Dublin from...

Any info or help you can provide knowing now how it goes? I've got the VSE on Tuesday and I'm pretty certain the practice material I have isn't like the actual test. If you could help me out and tell me anything you wish you'd have know that would be amazing!

This is all great info guys, thanks so much! Those replies fill me with hope and fear I would hope that being an already qualified, female driver would go in my favour. But I expect being Britsh and living in the UK currently would go against me. I'll definitely write a covering note explain...

Hey Muse29 and tiptoptaff, Thanks for the info. It's looking less and less likely that my plan will work :*( My other half is Irish and we'd both love to move back to Ireland but really only the West of the country. Looks like most of the train networks are very Dublin-centric. I'm...

I'm a qualified train driver looking to move to Ireland from the UK within the next 5 years or so. I saw that Iarnród Éireann had a recruitment drive in 2019 for drivers and said that they wanted to recruit 100 drivers in the next 4 years. I have lots of questions! Any current employees or...

Hey everyone, I'm on the course that started on Monday in Cardiff. I asked the trainer about further courses and he said there's nothing set in stone. March is a rumour but nothing more than that at the moment. Good luck everyone doing assessments this year.

Thanks very much! Absolutely! Not sure it's a actually sunk in yet! I've got christmas and new year off too so massive bonus before I start the new job too!

Hi everyone, I'm one of the people starting in January :DHad my medical, sent off the info for my security check and waiting for the info to be delivered in the post this week. Wanted to make sure it was definitely happening before posting on the forum. So excited!

I couldn't help myself! Trying to probe as much info from them as possible throughout the day! :lol: They didn't seem to be incredibly forthcoming with info but I suppose they can't tell us what they don't know! I asked do they have a specific amount of drivers that they are looking to recruit...

I was told today that not everyone got an assessment date and I'm pretty sure she said that these people who don't have dates yet should be doing their assessments within weeks. I expect they want everyone done asap. She did however ask me if I was to be called next week for a medical to begin...

Thanks guys :D Yeah asked questions but didn't get much really. 1st course 7th jan, 9 people per course. Get course date based on how well you did in f2f interviews (we were scored). No info about further courses /info. They said they're usually able to tell people where they are in the waiting...

I've PASSED guys and girls! Whoopwhooooop!

I've just been told you only get accommodation if you're travelling a long distance. I'm coming from Bridgend so they won't provide me accommodation the night before, they'll just pay for my train journey in in the morning.

CONGRATS Radioflyer2! Elated for you! Did they tell you anything about whats going to happen from here? (i.e. medical/ offer of employment/ talent pool/ courses etc) Any advice? Things to watch out for? Things that were unexpected? Sorry for the questions I'm just so excited!

Do you have the 'how2become' practice tests? I've heard that the actual test are a lot easier. The how 2 become tests have different multiple choice questions after each picture whereas the real thing asks you for the same 5 things in each picture so you know what you're looking for. That made...