Recent content by saracen

The SE drivers I know are very unhappy. Pay deal long overdue and poor management

I haven't seen a qualified vacancy at LNER or Avanti for quite a while. The trend seems to be for Apprentice Train Drivers as the TOC/FOC receives training grants from the Government

Diversity and Inclusion Managers

Who knew?! What a minefield. Thanks for sharing

Anything steel toe cap and above the ankle will be fine.

Sorry. Never heard of em

That's a weird thing to say given you based it on job security and routes. The economy is in for an absolute hammering. Freight will be the one that feels it the most, it always has. Erosion of terms and conditions, tupe, redundancy...all of which have affected the freight sector, which is...

As mentioned above, the loss of staff/priv travel should be taken into account and that your current pension with Northern will be far more lucrative than anything on offer from the FOC's at present

Spot on about this. It's also far more laborious too with breaking/re-attaching brake hoses, manual coupling up etc compared to a lot of the passenger work. Before anyone pipes up, I'm not saying women can't do that. I'm just pointing out the pitfalls of freight work

Travelodge...

Steady now, Premier Inn are decent :-D Travelodge are awful

Can I ask which TOC’s are allowing a 6 month extension and phone call medicals? Cheers

No need to mention whatsoever

Indeed

None of which are SWR’s fault. Whether or not SWR is re-nationalised, the infrastructure will continue to creak.