• Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Virgin Trains Drivers

Status
Not open for further replies.
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

R

rob12

Member
Joined
21 Aug 2012
Messages
141
Just got an email alert for this, (which is great news)
Does anybody have any info on what virgin Piccadilly is like as a depot?
How many drivers? what are the turns like, Nights etc? rest day pattern? ETC
Not holding my breath mind as I know competition is high and I am only just out of probation, But hey ho will stick an app in any way
Many thanks
 
ChrisTheRef

ChrisTheRef

Established Member
Joined
15 Apr 2009
Messages
1,432
Location
South Liverpool
rob12 said:
Just got an email alert for this, (which is great news)
Does anybody have any info on what virgin Piccadilly is like as a depot?
How many drivers? what are the turns like, Nights etc? rest day pattern? ETC
Not holding my breath mind as I know competition is high and I am only just out of probation, But hey ho will stick an app in any way
Many thanks
Click to expand...

Sundays outside. You work 5 days Mon-Sat with 1 RD.
After 4 weeks of that, you get a week of RDs.
Earlier start 03:38. Latest finish 02:15 (based on the link I have from a couple of years ago)
100 Drivers. 5 links of 20. Link 5 sign Longsight and Euston, which is what put me off applying.
 
R

rob12

Member
Joined
21 Aug 2012
Messages
141
Christ your putting me off , lol, 4 weeks straight with only 1 rest day? Do they have mid week swap? Early/late, cant imagine there's too much Rd work going on ;) got to be honest all that sounds pretty brutal, do they have same roster patern across the board for virgin thenot the other depots?
 
tiptoptaff

tiptoptaff

Established Member
Joined
15 Feb 2013
Messages
3,029
rob12 said:
Christ your putting me off , lol, 4 weeks straight with only 1 rest day? Do they have mid week swap? Early/late, cant imagine there's too much Rd work going on ;) got to be honest all that sounds pretty brutal, do they have same roster patern across the board for virgin thenot the other depots?
Click to expand...

He means 1 RD a week - you can only work 14 days straight as I'm sure you're aware (although that could just be done as a run of 14 and a run of 13 in a 4 week period)
 
C

Class2ldn

Member
Joined
25 Feb 2011
Messages
1,172
1Rd a week is still rubbish. Would love to know how that got agreed.
4 day week Sundays outside, can't beat it :)
 
B

Barnsey

Member
Joined
24 Feb 2017
Messages
12
Thanks for posting that, pretty much the same as my current TOC. Quite consistent start/finish times which helps, especially with avoiding rush hour.

I take it Preston is quite similar?
 
Andy-mc

Andy-mc

Member
Joined
26 Apr 2014
Messages
207
Location
Leicester
I prefer it this way, yes you have to work a 5 day weeks, but that's more than made up for by having a solid week off every 5th week.
 
W

W230

Established Member
Joined
6 Jan 2012
Messages
1,214
That roster does look a bit crap tbh. Bit disappointed! How long from link 5 to 4 on average?

I see on line 6 it's the same job every day of the week! I suppose it is only 7:55 though...

As above, is Preston the same?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top