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    Lumo - Qualified Driver - Newcastle (17/01/24)

    Can I ask how the short shifts that result from the second day returning from a lodging turn fit with the rest of the link. Does it result in non lodging turns being longer than average to make your overall weekly hours worked average out, or do you have more working days to make up this time...
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    Covid restrictions to end on 19th July

    I think you have his position exactly right. Shapps will be fully aware that making the 17:44 service mandatory but the 15:44 voluntary would be completely unworkable. In reality, the government's position means that operators have been empowered to continue to require masks as a blanket...
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    Covid restrictions to end on 19th July

    Grant Shapps has just said to the transport committee that he will fully support train and tube operators in mandating the wearing of masks as a condition of carriage beyond 19th July. He says that whilst the Government's position is to move from law to guidance and common sense in most...
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    KeolisAmey Metrolink Tram Driver - Manchester (24-06-2021)

    It's almost £10K / year more than that being offered across the Pennines at Sheffield Supertram for a drivers role last week, I wasn't sure if 25k fully qualified was a typo, but shamefully it appears not. There does appear to be huge variance between tram companies, though I don't know to what...
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    GWR Train Driver talent pool

    I have just had a call about starting, having been placed into a talent pool for Oxford around two and a half years ago back in January 2019. I had all but written this one off, as after a year it disappeared from my career site login page and I thought they may not have been keen on me needing...
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    GWR Train Driver talent pool

    Agree with Stigy, there is no way of knowing how long it may be. I passed assessments in October 2018 and DMI in January 2019 for a large depot. I was told in person by the interviewer on the day that it was a really strong interview and that I wouldn't be in the pool long. 18 months later I'm...
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    Arriva london trainee driver

    As MostlyHarmless says, the joysticks only move on one axis each, so it is not possible to wobble them other than pushing too far or back in the direction you want to go. It is testing your ability to control how far you are moving each hand independently of the other in a fixed direction...
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    Why are Northern allowed to cancel Sunday Services seemingly at will?

    I agree with taking personal responsibility to make sure you account for possible delays, but in my case this just means that I can't use the railway to commute. In my last job there was a direct train into a major city, but it was only an hourly service and it arrived 50 minutes before the...
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    Train Driver Academy

    Quite. There is unlikely to be any new money from TOC's to fund the extra trainee places, which points to either cost cutting per head or more trainee's being funded from outside of the current model?
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    Train Driver Academy

    The first quote in this article from the project lead is “The idea of the academy is to increase the amount of trainee drivers in the industry”. https://www.railstaff.co.uk/2019/03/13/the-train-drivers-academy/
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    Convenient times and dates to attend interviews and medicals

    Email. (Spam folder as default with some providers)
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    Convenient times and dates to attend interviews and medicals

    To echo Stigy's point, the likelihood of getting through everything first time, although certainly doable is quite slim. I too like many others have traveled and stayed in hotels including for an interview that was then cancelled due to a mixup between HR and local manager and had to re-attend...
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    Convenient times and dates to attend interviews and medicals

    You have not said which roles, but presuming its a driver position with Northern, they do DMI first, 1 hour long, followed by all of the psychometric tests done in 1 full day and then a medical for 1 hour before finally a job offer, often at only a few weeks notice. These tend to come in quick...
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    Convenient times and dates to attend interviews and medicals

    My experience is similar, everything is midweek, and with Northern, at very short notice as well. I have had a request to rearrange be rejected before too. I think for the more popular roles they get enough applications that everything is on their terms as there is a queue of people behind you...
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    Northern rail driver course

    From the outside that sounds fantastic. How is it going in a real world environment? Have many gone through the new training yet?
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    A career as a signaller

    No problem. It's a temperamental site. Sometimes the jobs list doesn't refresh either until browser history is cleared.
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    A career as a signaller

    Clear your browser's cache and try again. Usually works for me.
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    Trainee driver's in Darlington

    As Aivilo says, they are strict on 45 minutes. In interview they ask you to talk through how you will get to the depot in less than 45 minutes before public transport runs and at rush hour.
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    Northern driver Wigan

    I believe it must have changed. I submitted several driver applications at once and don't recall being asked. I also spoke to HR about a couple, so they knew and didn't seem to mind.
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    Signaller Selection Day

    I parked at the station, but some at my assessment day just pressed the buzzer and we allowed to park inside the compound if you are driving.

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