Recent content by mitch.swiggins

Hello Nathan, with the residential training NR will put you up in a hotel from Sunday night through Thursday night, every week for 12 weeks. you head home for the weekend Friday after class. there are only 3 training centres - York, Coventry, and Basingstoke.

interviewed 28/09, pre-offer email 26/10, official offer email 27/10, medical 15/11, received my start date 30/11.

me too.

it’ll be interesting to see what happens there. SE’s pay is always behind Southern and Thameslink. you would think that SE would have to bring their driver’s pay in line with that of GTR’s to keep them from jumping ship. that said, they haven’t seemed to think it was necessary in years gone by.

just the one

I meant what positions are the applications for?

what are the applications for?

congratulations, well done you! I'd like to add that I'm well impressed with the notification time - you only sat the assessment this past Wednesday?!

wait - are you saying that you have access to them 24/7?!?

I see. Yeah, perfectly legitimate question for HR.

I’d like to echo this sentiment. I applied for dozens of NR jobs over a period of a approx a year and a half. I took a lot of assessments(online as well as seated) and I even managed to get as far as the interview stage a few times before I finally landed a job offer. But before I received an...

Did it not say in your formal offer letter? The one they sent me had the wage for my grade as well as the wage during training listed and just below that the following line - “In addition, you will receive an Outer London Allowance of £1,800 and an Outer London Area Operational Supplement of...

me as well if it's not too much trouble?

driving trains is a brilliant way to earn a living and I am very lucky to have had the opportunity. that said, I began exploring other opportunities on the railway approx 5yrs ago when I started thinking about what I felt were a lack of opportunities for advancement from the driving grade. and...

I’m off to signalling school at the end of February after nearly 13yrs of driving trains. I’m used to the strict drug and alcohol policy as well as random screening but I’m still surprised to hear this as I don’t remember it being an issue at drivers training school.