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So reading this forum, I know sponsors basically represent the commercial client within NR but what would a sponsor in the DfT do? Large projects often seem to have an NR sponsor and a DfT sponsor.

Do Network Rail generally only recruit for these types of roles (PM annd engineering) internally?

Why do London Underground retrieve items from the track during operational hours? I’ve seen cases where it can take a while to retrieve items due to where they’ve landed and having to stop trains to do so. This can cause a domino effect on trains behind which can add up and hence delays to...

If you buy a ticket from London to Seaford, can you go back to London from Portslade with the same ticket or would an additional single be requires from Portslade to Brighton?

Have Avanti West coast stopped offering groupsave on tickets for 3-9 adults? I was trying to look some up for June but adding the groupsave discount doesn’t take any money off.

Would a career in NR be interesting for someone coming from a contractor background? What is the progression and pay like compared to contractors?

How does weekend working work for mainly office roles such as Project Managers and Project Engineers in NR? Is it a rota system?

Hi. Does anyone know how long the turnaround time is from sending In all the pre employment paperwork to getting a confirmed start date at NR?

how does delay repay work if your journey was delayed for over 2 hours and you have a season ticket covering the first part of your journey and a day extension return covering the remaining part? Would you be entitled to 2 separate delay repay claims? One for the season ticket and one for the...

When travelling out to and returning from 2 different stations on different branch lines and the return to both is the same price, do you still need a single ticket to the point they meet? For example, a return from London Waterloo to Egham costs the same as a return from London Waterloo to...

If I’m travelling from St Pancras to Selling and returning Whitstable to St Pancras, is the cheapest way of doing this a day return to Selling plus a single from Whitstable to Faversham? Or is there a cheaper combination?

When buying a ticket from London to Bedford, a ticket from Euston (London Terminals) to Bedford (purchased from London Northwestern) is more expensive than a ticket from St Pancras to Bedford (purchased from Thameslink or East Midlands trains). Both are marked as any permitted and so should be...

If travelling from Kings Cross to Cambridge, you hold a zones 1-4 annual travel card and you approach a guard to ask to buy an extension return ticket covering Boundary zone 4 to Cambridge before reaching a zone 4 station, are you liable to a penalty fare at that point under the conditions of...

Does Unite have as heavy a presence in rail as TSSA or RMT?

Does anyone know how network rail IP is organised? It seems to have a very military programme and project management structure. But is each programme considered to be a single team? So for example will one programme manager unit only work on a single programme (e.g. Great Western...

Does anyone know generally how long it takes to hear back from a Network Rail interview after the interview with the last candidate has finished?

I'm curious - do people who work in heavy civil engineering in the rail industry - such as on station developments, viaduct construction etc (particularly in construction companies) still consider themselves to be part of the railway community or "working on the railway"? I know heavy civils is...

Hi, I have an interview for a Scheme Project Manager role coming up in Network Rail IP. Does anyone have any advice for this? I've prepared answers to common questions, done plenty of research on the team and the company as well as safety. Is there anything else I should do in preparation...

What kind of prior experiences does one need to become a TfL Assistant Project Manager or Network Rail Scheme Project Manager. Will previous experience as an assistant civil engineer in NR and as a project support officer in another industry help?

Hi, I was wondering what the best way to get into rail projects is if you have a civil engineering degree, which included 2 year long sandwich placements, and you also worked another year after graduating in railway engineering and asset management, but you've been working in an unrelated...