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    Train Manager Pre-course Study Advice?

    Anything about anger management
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    Rule Book for sale?

    https://www.willsonshop.com/shop/rule-books
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    Guards of this forum, what do you to negate the risk of giving a RTS bell on a red signal?

    I would put keys in but not turn them, may not be possible on all traction but was on 221 & 390. If you habitually started the bell buzzer codes it wouldn’t sound so you had to stop, think what you was doing
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    psychometrics fail. Any hope of the OPC tests being refreshed?

    I was under the impression you could only fail one element twice. So more than two attempts at the process as long you only fail on different elements. I think the OPC have their interpretation of the guidelines as I have known them to refuse a second attempt When a colleague failed the at home...
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    TRP1 and TRP2

    glop test and cables and dials
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    Driver testing advice, loophole?

    I’ve seen the opc refuse another try due to a failure of the at home tests and a failure at enhanced with another toc. seems harsh but every toc can interpret the rules as they see fit. I used to believe you get 2 attempts at each element but tocs may have tightened up on this to reduce numbers
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    Question regarding 'remaining attentive during a period of prolonged inactivity'

    You may want to Look at non technical skills to guide you. Think prepare for the task, break it down into smaller chunks eg 30 minute blocks, track progress to look for signs of fatigue and take action if required
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    Avanti West Coast Trainee Train Driver Euston and Wolverhampton

    To make matters worse if you pass the cbi it overwrites you’re mmi pass so if your waiting in a pool for another toc then your result is no longer valid. I spoke to the guy running the course about 18 months ago and he confirmed that only one result counts even though there is 2 assessments.
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    Trainee Driver

    I know a lad who failed vse for vt and also wmt ar enhanced standard for stage 1, when he applied for vt he was told by the opc his two lives had gone for vt !.
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    RMT Strike Action - Virgin West Coast

    Virgin has lots of staff in jobs they have been promoted to from lower roles, many have had no training and are under pressure to perform. Lots of managers looking out for each other.
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    RMT Strike Action - Virgin West Coast

    I’ve not read the entire thread but from contacts within the company it was a massive overreaction to dismiss the member of staff. Their is still a massive breakdown of respect from the strike days when the management were acting as a train managers.
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    Certain shades of green

    That’s also my understanding for new entrants. Existing people in same role can also do the lantern test but I think that’s rare now
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    Certain shades of green

    https://www.color-blindness.com/ishiharas-test-for-colour-deficiency-38-plates-edition/ Try the online link above as this is the online version to the paper books I’ve used at medical
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    West Coast Partnership: Awarded to First Trenitalia

    My guess would be Preston and wolves.
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    West Coast Partnership: Awarded to First Trenitalia

    Has any pledge been made to keep oxley as a maintenance depot ? last I was told was vt was paying an additional payment for Alston to keep a small amount of fitters as they practically closed the depot without consulting vt.
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    West Coast Partnership: Awarded to First Trenitalia

    I guess this will make a big difference to all diagrams especially Glasgow and Edinburgh if they extend their route card.
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    18 years logistics experience

    In my experience no. I think it’s more of a tick box exercise, do you have x qualification or equivalent and the certificate to prove it. I’m guessing that companies are now expecting potential trainees to have level 3 Key skills so they don’t have to pay for the additional training and they...
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    Query about part time hours

    Tm are 41 hour week but you can be rostered up to 50 hours in a basic week sometimes more as rosters are agreed locally
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    Passenger rights when following staff instructions

    It does seem that even the most passenger focused tocs don’t seem interested in issues like this ? Almost like they accept that this is part and parcel of running a railway and their is no business case to address the core issues. At my old toc platform staff had very basic ticket training and...
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    Passenger rights when following staff instructions

    A point I raised when I was a guard was that all staff members offering ticket advice should endorse the ticket with their initials as a minimum. I’ve rang stations and spoken to platform staff and asked them if they endorsed passengers to travel and in 99% of cases the answer was always ‘ I...

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