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    Northern - Trainee Driver - Manchester (14/03/24)

    It’s a long old process. Try not to stress about it. Piccadilly has approx 20 vacancies to fill this year (not sure on other Northern depots). Also, I've no idea how big the pool currently is. Maybe you’ll all progress along nicely! Best of luck to all who are applying!
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    New Mills Central landslip - 6 week closure

    The problem they have firstly is staff. No where near enough staff on the ground. And also, not knowing how to fix the “unknown issue” is why we’ve seen no positive steps to resolve, sadly. Yeah the 7:29 New Mills service was dangerously busy this morning and shouldn’t have been short formed to...
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    New Mills Central landslip - 6 week closure

    All that’s happened since the closure, is monitoring equipment has been placed at the location. There is no resolution on the horizon (that’s from a Network Rail MOM this morning!) this closure is going to last way longer that predicted!
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    New Mills Central landslip - 6 week closure

    Speaking to a NR employee.. he says They don’t have the man power or even the knowledge of how to sort the problem yet.. so I’m not surprised if it’s been extended.. I think it is going to be quite a big project to sort out.
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    RMT Industrial Action Update to members

    I work for a TOC. I’ve seen this happen. And certain people aren’t sacked they just continue to go off sick for 6 months, then back for 6, and off again for 6!
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    RMT Industrial Action Update to members

    I expect some of this talk of altering sick pay, is to stop people “milking the system” and going off for 6 months when they’re not actually sick, and simply taking advantage of the system. That,’in itself, will save the company money and help staffing levels!!
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    ASLEF Strike LNER & Northern 1st March

    Conditionless 4%.. PLUS the backpay.. and yes I’m sure most drivers would say yes to that to move things forward finally
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    Qualified driver interview

    As above. But I wasn’t asked any rule changing questions.
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    Aslef overtime ban what does it mean

    Any “Non Scheduled” overtime so no extra Sundays, no staying on late / coming in early, and no rest day working. Because if this there will be plenty of uncovered work which means more cancellations.
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    Misleading headline of a "train on fire" at Cardiff Central (19/11)

    It’s a small piece of debris next to the rail, where the train was sat, that had caught fire. Nothing to report that the debris had come from the train.. and “train on fire” is a wildly far fetched headline!
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    Aslef strikes and OT ban called…

    new strike dates only made it onto BBC news 36 mins ago, as I type this! Prior strikes are “breaking news”!! Government probably dictating to the press what and when they can post!
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    Aslef strikes and OT ban called…

    Offer aslef the same deal as RMT.. strikes will likely be called off and the negotiations can be discussed toc by toc in the new year. It’s that simple. Attacking terms and conditions won’t fix this issue. The government have no clue how the railway ACTUALLY works.
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    Possible Movement in RMT Dispute.

    ASLEF have received no offers at present. Potential strike dates have been discussed also.
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    Northern Ad hoc cancellations

    There is no financial penalty so it’s easy to cancel services with no punishment. There’s also no rest day working agreement and lots of sickness, so services just get cancelled and management don’t really care as it’s below the average cancellation figure they’re striving to achieve! Why...
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    Transport for Wales - Trainee Train Drivers

    They’re currently big on customer service. So be sure to include that into answers and make sure you come across as pro customer service too!
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    Northern CIS: uncared for?

    Northern’s new announcers are staff members and volunteered to re record the onboard announcements. Better than the computer sounding robot voice that it replaced (in my opinion). You can’t please everyone I guess!
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    Driver ‘allegedly’ refused to leave as too many passengers on board

    Most northern services run busier than this most weekends! Not ideal, but people have places to be!

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