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It depends on their outlook. To many a train is a train, no matter where they take it, it all becomes a bit samey given time. Some would prefer fewer routes and traction. There are certainly many worse shifts than those and the routine it would give would be difficult to find elsewhere. No early...

I bet they’d get plenty of qualified drivers apply for that if advertised.

It's a pity we can't swap. As others have said you'd start as a trainee but your experience would stand you well in any application. As we're no longer on the skills shortage list in Aus it's the same for us wanting to go the other way, find a different way to get in and then apply for train...

Isn't it funny that the only time they intervene is when the franchise is no longer making anyone any money...

You'd probably be better to ask colleagues at your depot what they would do.

Why do so many people think that train drivers should be exempt from normal practice? If someone wants to give them better conditions or more money then it is up to them if they choose to take up the offer. Why is it any different than any other job? Stop them striking, tie them to contracts...

This is the free market so many are in favour of. There's a simple way to keep staff, but the usual suspects won't like that.

Oh yeah...WMT

Does anyone know what Shrewsbury drivers sign around Birmingham?

...and I don't want to waste 100% of my weekend at work.

Sighting for the crossing as far as I know. There were foot crossings there before the bridges. Something to do with vegetation, if you can't see the board it needs cutting back. Hopefully, someone will be along to provide a more definitive answer.

I personally wouldn't like to work 7 days running so often. The long weekend would be cheapened knowing it's 7 days continuous coming up to it and then 7 days after. I think I'd prefer the link posted above this reply to that. Only 1 in 2 Saturday's as opposed to 2 in 3, so that's some...

Many signed up without them in the working week, others without them committed, some told they wouldn't be able to get rid of them fast enough and others with the acceptance that you'd work a certain amount. Just because the industry now deems this must change, that doesn't mean drivers should...

What information does it give on the pension schemes? Bit worrying if it's different for new starters. Does the information you get include things like rest day patterns, holiday entitlement, Sunday commitments, working hours, probationary period, sickness policy, etc? If so, what are those?

Without contracts how would people know their terms? Rest day patterns, pension arrangements, hours, etc? Out of interest what is the dispute over the pension age?

Perfect, thanks for getting back to me.

That sounds good to me. Just to confirm following your later post, are Sundays for drivers voluntary only then? Do you know if the rest day pattern is fixed?

Brilliant. Thanks for the info, I hoped you might reply. Do you know if the rest day pattern is a fixed one? Are Sundays committed? Looking at the services it seems that the first trains come off the sidings at about 05:15 and the last one goes on just after midnight, which doesn't seem too bad...

Does anyone know much about Shrewsbury? Earliest and latest times, rest day pattern, work content, Sundays, take home pay on a flat month, depot work, preps, that sort of thing...I understand that the routes and traction are quite limited, but not too worried about that. Anything else worth...

The fantasy scenarios dreamt up on here can only make you smile. What many fail to grasp despite it being pointed out time and again is that no matter what happens with the guards, drivers have to agree to drive them, there is no appetite for this at all, regardless of any potential offers. The...