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So there has recently been an advert sent out for new T/Ops to work Saturday/Sunday earlies and lates only (TO26 Grade) in order to reduce the weekend working burden on full time train ops following the absorption of night tube into full time. The lists got filled and closed pretty much...

There is a trial about to be underway shortly for in-cab training, involving drivers who have been off sick/shielding and those needing CAP’s. It is voluntary for both the IO and driver, so likely to be some time before they clear the backlog of existing drivers before they can start looking at...

Not really - the furlough scheme is being used for non-essential staff to help keep TfL moving by reducing staff costs (which amount for a significant proportion of the budget) whilst the biggest source of our income has been decimated. Arguably if the government is paying 80% of their...

I vaguely recall some Station staff who were still about that were ticket office trained could do a printout for BTP and such like, however they are not going to want to do one for you because of corona if you could find one. Other than that, staff travel probably could provide one if they...

Training is still suspended... we’ve had 0 new T/Ops through for a while now.

The only way bankruptcy might affect you would be if you were driving for DRS as you would have to hold DV clearance. Short of that, there aren’t any roles on the railway that would require you to even disclose you were bankrupt to your employer let alone affect your employment. bankruptcy...

depends on your depot really. generally speaking earlies are the most popular so you shouldn’t have a problem getting lates. getting on the nights might be a bit more difficult. At least at my depot, there isn’t enough nights to go around so they end up doing a mixture of lates then nights...

there is no mafia for night tube... because you only do nights...

You should be given a sheet with the current waiting lists on it at the school when you are making your nominations, if not... There is a folder at the booking on desk of every depot, it should have waiting lists that are updated monthly. As part of your first 4 weeks at Ashfield house you...

go for the depot with the shortest/fastest moving waiting list that you are willing to travel to, then go for the one closest to home. why wait 4 years for a dead mans shoes depot on night tube money, when you could pick a depot with a fast moving waiting list, move after 12 months and then...

You get 8 weeks which are allocated, then a week of floating days that you can take whenever according to coverage. Basically according to GOAL which governs our annual leave, you should get 2 weeks allocated every quarter based on a rota. So if you were annual leave period 10 you would get...

There’s a handful of Ex-BTP who are now tube drivers having joined as night tube drivers and then moving to “full time”. there’s another couple on the waiting list for training dates, however this route is going to be closed to externals who haven’t already applied, so you’d need to take...

When was it? Assuming the other car was not occupied you have 24 hours to report it to a police station or a constable. If it was occupied and you genuinely didn’t realise that an accident has occurred then get a solicitor who specialises in Road Traffic. They will be able to articulate a...

Graduate scheme or project manager. Even then it would be years till you had any actual say. Plus given what you have said you would fail tremendously at attempting to manage a depot or a line if you see yourself as above the drivers. They will make your life incredibly difficult, and you...

Depends on what you want. If you’re overground you’d get slightly less money on LU, but you’d get more leave, and the mafia is one of the main attractions of the T/Op grade tbh. Give the mafia guy your preferences - whether that’s childcare, or being at university, specific rest days and he’ll...

Full time drivers is internal only. You can’t currently transfer licences between national rail and LU, however, there is progress being made on that front what I’m told but it will be internal only. The present idea that the unions are pushing for and is gaining some traction, is that drivers...

You won’t get many BTP officers on here. The answer is that it depends where you are posted tbh. If you are posted to a hub (major station like Paddington), an LU NPT team or some of the south London posts then you won’t do night shifts - just early and lates - with the exception of the...

You’ll get the application form when everyone else does, and the card will arrive at some point during your training (first week probably).

If you are using a proper salary sacrifice scheme then yes. For example you get paid £55,000 and make £5000 pension contributions. Your employer would reduce your salary to £50,000 and make an extra £5,000 pension contributions. So on paper, you now make £50,000 not £55,000.

Salary sacrifice is a misunderstood term... If you see a pension deduction line on your wage slip you aren’t using the kind of salary sacrifice they are talking about to attract NI rate relief, as they are exploiting a tax loophole. Effectively what they are referring to is you reduce your...