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You can indeed. 2L88 berths in 1 every (weekday) night and forms the first one up the North Kent in the morning.

DB have done 2 recruitment drives for trainee drivers in the last year or so, Autumn last year was for the Southern based hubs (Dollands, Hoo, Barking, Acton etc...) and earlier this year was for the Nothern based hubs (Doncaster, Warrington, Mossend etc...) There have been quite a few trainee...

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6 - Exeter is on the list as well! (also a 6)

Appeared on the internal list about a week ago I think, I've never seen it internal either. I think they do a mixture of 12s and 6s - double manned on days but single manned on nights (or after midnight?) - not 100% though...

ARS is a very clever and complex system that is, for the most part, very good at what it is designed to do - which is to regulate trains under normal or mildly perturbed situations. Put very simply, ARS will try to make what it considers to be the best decision with regards to the priority of...

Your words not mine ;) Do the newer interlockings implement full Huddersfield locking as standard then? It’s something we have to watch at a few of our locations - mainly due to the ARS and some very tight timetabling.

Exactly the same at my place. (Although the interlocking will let you and if you’re not careful ARS will kindly do it for you as well)

Some pictures of Upminster IECC can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/llangollen_signalman/albums/72157637393666933 It also control some (all?) of the North London line as well as the whole of the LTS route (inc. Ripple Lane and Tilbury yards). Upminster gets Outer London allowance...

Simsig is as accurate a simulator as you could hope for - it looks fairly similar to WestCAD so would give you a good idea as to what the workstations would look like (ish) and how the controls work (ish) I did get asked in my (internal signaller) interview what I knew about the location and...

Indeed! 2 x High Speed Workstations (separate to the IECC but on the same ops floor) along with the 5 classic side workstations (split across IECC A and IECC B) and the 2 North Kent Workstations - for a total of 9.

I can only speak for multi manned boxes but for a ‘standard’ wrong route: - Tell your shift manager - They go through a form with you (asking why/was ARS involved etc...) - This would likely be kept on your file If you start doing this unusually often questions will be asked and your line...

Correct. You should be expecting a 'demonstrate a time where you've...[insert NTS here]' for each of the 8 NTS - it's worth spending some time thinking of some solid examples and be very explicit as to how they link into the specific NTS they're asking for. Also, try to avoid repeating any...

KVB. The balises themselves were installed around the station/chords over Christmas, this is the final installation and testing for (apparently) an Easter commissioning date. I think the line through P3/P4 was raised a while ago so the platform clearance issues were sorted.

If you aren’t totally hopeless then reasonably easy yes. The internal vacancies don’t get anywhere near as many applicants as the external ones (in general) and the interview is much more rules/signalling based than the external one which is more general. The bigger issue will be waiting for a...

Any ideas what link(s) have straight 12s? Cheers.

From memory, and I could be wrong, I think this covers the Shrewsbury to Crewe workstation at the SWCC (unless any more have gone in). (Photos here: http://photos.signalling.org/index?/category/467-shrewsbury_north_workstation) Earnings wise it depends on how many rest days/Sundays you do but...

17/19 down here in the dream factory as well...8-) Think the signallers are grade 8s and the shift managers are grade 9s (they could be 10s though, not 100% on that one - sure swills can confirm!) A nice mix of NX and VDU as well - assuming they aren’t seperate links.

I went to York a few years ago now but I don't believe the arrangements have changed that much, so here goes... It was (roughly) 9-5 Mon-Thu with a lunchtime-ish finish on the Friday. Some of the trainers are flexible regarding start/finish times so (if the group agree) you may be able to start...

The standard MOMs course is (I think) 7 weeks and is very different from the signallers rules course (they mainly focus on PTS/TBW/level crossing attendant/SLW/pilot working etc...) I think that any MOMs required to work a signal box then go back and do the full signallers rules course in...