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I remember a discussion about the time per photo somewhere and I’m sure several said it’s just under a second. I practised at 1.2 seconds and would get like 80% right during the practises, but did absolutely fine in the real thing.

Don’t focus so hard on what is in the image, if your eyes are darting from item to item you will fail. Just stare in the middle of the screen to allow your brain to almost take a snapshot, you don’t need to lock eyes onto a bike to realise it’s a bike for example. The test is designed to test...

If you fail any test you’ve already done your pass will change into a fail, meaning you cannot progress with any operator. If you pass it to the same standard but don’t achieve DB’s standard then you are safe with SE. If I were you I wouldn’t risk anything at this stage unless you’re confident...

If you were in the company and wanted a transfer it would be on a case by case basis, based on business needs and then reasons for wanting to move. People who need to move for reasons of hardship such as family issues etc will be prioritised. Some moves may be nearly impossible, some may be...

Anybody that works for the TOC concerned will be able to find the TM’s details instantly with the information in the first sentence of the post. So this is identifying the individual to the people who matter, I can assure you this will already be flying around in emails at the TOC, hopefully...

I don’t know XC’s policies, nor do most, I’ve no idea if the guard did anything wrong. It just doesn’t sit right with me (and most people here it would seem) when someone goes out of their way to give identifying characteristics whilst inferring the person was guilty of wrong doing from the...

Your CV should contain this information, as well as everything else they want to see.

It’s a bit sad that people (presumed enthusiasts) will go out of their way to potentially get railway workers in trouble. You could have very easily asked this question without essentially allowing identification of the exact crew member in question. Posts like these are the exact reason many...

Plenty of people get to your stage and are forgotten about, so it’s a case of essentially harassing them if they’re currently/recently recruiting and starting courses. It’s not unusual for a company to have people sitting ready to go (with DMI passed etc) to then go and recruit brand new people...

Indeed, almost all were safety critical high pressure backgrounds, a minority aren’t from any relevant background but had things out of work to help their application - special constables, retained firefighters, reserve forces and then a few with hobbies which probably helped them - amateur...

I’d guesstimate from our newest 50 drivers (adverts both public and internal), only around 5-10 people were guards or railway staff.

If that’s your name then probably not a great idea to have your name and your request for an insider view on the interview in the public domain! Many managers will use this forum.

It depends what you eventually want to be, I won’t pretend to know anything about other railway jobs but if you want to be a driver I’d 100% recommend going into something safety critical from day 1. Emergency services, military, aviation etc. It seems nowadays if you want to drive you’re best...

I asked you the question, asking a question cannot be speculation. From my own experience I can add the following: I know someone in a talent pool for Chiltern, and I know someone who applied after them and got put straight onto the next course. I sat in the pool for WMT, they went out to...

Are you confident they haven’t started drivers on courses direct from application since you’ve been in the pool though? Good contact is fine, but if they’re leaving you in there when they shouldn’t be that’s not fine!

Guards sit similar psychometrics to drivers and I believe they’re quite hard to pass, like the drivers ones. Before and/or after that you’ll have interviews.

A HR department being under-resourced and underpaid makes them woefully poor in my mind! Two rather critical issues!

Yes. I’m aware of TOCs having people actively in their talent pool that have gone back into recruitment mode and hire new people, placing them onto courses whilst the talent pools are forgotten about. You can’t trust the woefully poor HR teams on railways to be on top of stuff like this; it’s...

Sadly talent pools are railway nonsense most of the time. I was in the same talent pool and never heard anything back, years later I’m now a driver instead. Many of the guys were made redundant from the rail maintenance facility in my area and applied for TFL, ending up in the never ending...

Pretty much every stage is pass or fail in this game, if a human isn’t checking it to progress you onwards a computer is. If you don’t give the answers they want it will be a fail.