Eye sight advise

feaky4 said:

So i just got my eyes tested today because I have an assessment day for conductor for TPE soon and thought if I pass it I want to be ready for the medical as I knew I wouldn't get far with these glasses, it's the first time in a long time. It turns out my eyes have gotten alot worse I asked the optician about it and he said he thinks but not sure, but I maybe out of the standards. I tried looking through the forums and Google but cant find much out and any thing I do find is confusing so I'm wondering if any one could help or can point me in the correct direction. If I cant find a propper solution I'm going to have to cancel my assessment and give up on the rail industry which I feel like I'm going to have to do either way.

Thanks for any advise

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feaky4 said:

So i just got my eyes tested today because I have an assessment day for conductor for TPE soon and thought if I pass it I want to be ready for the medical as I knew I wouldn't get far with these glasses, it's the first time in a long time. It turns out my eyes have gotten alot worse I asked the optician about it and he said he thinks but not sure, but I maybe out of the standards. I tried looking through the forums and Google but cant find much out and any thing I do find is confusing so I'm wondering if any one could help or can point me in the correct direction. If I cant find a propper solution I'm going to have to cancel my assessment and give up on the rail industry which I feel like I'm going to have to do either way.

Thanks for any advise

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feaky4 said:

Thanks for the help every one just very worried because even with these new specs my eyes are bad I was looking around on google and theres a thing I found and it says the standards are 6/9 6/12 I'm 6/6 and n8 when I'm an n4 the chart thing it was on started at n4.5 so mine wasnt even on it I have no idea what it all means my eyes are -8 and -11 nearly 28 I'm blind as hell my current glasses arnt even road legal, I'm stupid and kept putting it off

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BloominMan said:

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but some jobs only allow a maximum prescription of -8.

6/6 is 20/20 and is usually the bottom line on the chart.
6/7.5 is 20/25 second bottom line
6/9 is 20/30 third bottom line
6/12 is 20/40 and so on so forth.

6/12 is UK car driving eyesight standard.

N4 is the smallest close eyesight on the handheld card.

All the best anyway. I'd go and see what happens!

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feaky4 said:

Thank you this is what I was looking for I dunno what to do is it worth putting my self through all this stress and if I'm lucky enough to get to the medical worth the fail (looking at these it seems pointless I'm worse of the worse) it would devastate me more being so close and being let down by one thing that cant and wont change just typical 2 years of applying for driver and conductor jobs I finally get the chance and it's my eyes that mess me over

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BloominMan said:

You should definitely go. You may well be completely fine and go on to have a great career. If you don't go you'll never know!

I do sympathise with you, I've had my eyes lasered which automatically disqualifies me from certain TOCs. Though without the laser I didn't meet the minimum eyesight standard myself.

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