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Would be very surprised to see 323s on this route. It'd mean a Piccadilly driver taking it as far as Preston for a Liverpool driver to then take it on to Blackpool. If they use a 319 it'd make much more sense. I must say that I can't see Northern training Buxton, Wigan, Victoria and Blackpool...

Does anyone know what routes Wigan Wallgate drivers sign? Also earliest start time and latest finish?

The starting salary is wrong on the original ad. It's just under 21k.

im sure they'll send you their apologies for not replying sooner. Seriously, the highlighted above shows to me you do not have the required mentality to be a driver. I wish you all the luck to pursue this career with TOC 2 as it is an incredible job to have, but I think you need to...

Losing three trainers is going to have an impact, but the company are famously slow at sorting out genuine problems such as this so they are to blame. They've known about two of the three trainers leaving for some time, so why not get the vacancies out straight away and test the waters of...

Another 80 drivers to be required at Piccadilly, from an extremely reliable source.

Manchester Oxford Road - rodents Preston 1+2 - small and dirty Leeds - the most unfriendly messroom out there Sheffield - can be similar to Leeds on its day Piccadilly and Buxton for the friendliest mess rooms with Liverpool being decent majority of the time. Although the seating at...

How I've missed that I'll never know. Doh!

I like the bench style seat facing the toilet on a 150/1 for some strange reason. I do however despise the 3+2 seating arrangement. Noticed some mentioned 'Dusty Bin' earlier, this has a different meaning to me, being MP321 signal after leaving Ardwick towards Piccadilly. For those who...

Piccadilly you'd start off with 5 core routes to learn. Stoke, Crewe (via Airport), Rose Hill, New Mills Central and Hadfield. Victoria I couldn't say for sure but fairly certain it includes three core routes. Southport (via Atherton) and Wigan Wallgate (via Bolton) are definitely in it but...

You can't fault the driver shift patterns at Northern that's for sure.

They still need another 50 drivers at Piccadilly so I wouldn't be surprised if any Manchester applications start progressing again soon.

Super stuff. I know a chap who works as a supervisor up there. I also know that Workington Conductors earn the most commission at Northern, by quite some way!

It is anyone's guess as to whether Blackburn will be better due to being a brand new depot. My personal opinion is that it will be miles better, as they create new links, they 'could' do away with seniority for the best jobs. The facilities will be brand new, so you won't have this issue of...

Just noticing your location, are you going to be a Workington conductor?

Hi. I applied in Feb for Manchester Stns with assessment at the end of April. I was offered a place on the May course but couldn't commit to it so ended up with September.

Congratulations Dave1980! Joining Blackburn depot will be superb in my opinion. Unfortunately for me I was refused my switch to Blackburn so Manchester Piccadilly it is. I am starting on the 5th Sept and by the looks of things, this course is rather sparse...as I was told last week...

I applied for the Manchester batch in Feb and finally have a start date of 5th Sept. Not sure how likely but I would love to be assigned Blackburn on the off chance as I only live 9 miles away.

The new platform seems to be taking ages to construct. Then again, they can sort these out in record speed e.g. Workington North

All Northern station adopters have been scrapped with effect from the end of June, I believe. Northern are now focussing on creating more community rail groups instead of having individuals looking after the stations. I for one never got on with the adopter at the station I used to work...