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  1. Numbnuts846

    DB Cargo - Fast Track Drivers (15/11/22)

    My passes are 3years old and I haven’t been rejected although I did mine with db cargo in Doncaster
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    SWR Guards Recruitment 2021

    Once you become productive you rise to 75% of the full wage then 6 months from the productive date you rise to 90% and then a further 6 months you receive the full rate and Taunton to Yeovil is well within the 45min travel allowance
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    SWR Guards Recruitment 2021

    Congratulations and welcome to Bournemouth depot , good bunch at Bournemouth just finished my guards course at Basingstoke and now route learning . I’m based in Weymouth
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    SWR Metro Guard Rota

    Once on the course you will have a dayout in which you visit some depots and get to have a look at the links and rosters etc , don’t panic and enjoy the course
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    SWR Guards Recruitment 2021

    It’s fully dependent on your depot and routes it covered by that depot
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    SWR Guards Recruitment 2021

    It’s not until you’re fully competent! It’s when you are productive, you are on a training wage for classroom and route learning then you go up to 75% as soon as you work a train on your own ( fully productive) then after a period of time you go to 100% pay ! Probation is 6 months from the date...
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    Overtime GWR

    Depends on budgets for overtime being available on the revenue side of things
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    SWR Guards Recruitment 2021

    Typo! 23rd may ! Course after me
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    SWR Guards Recruitment 2021

    Currently we get bank holidays off during training, on the course now
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    SWR Guards Recruitment 2021

    I’m on the course starting that day
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    Transport for Wales trainee driver's Holyhead

    Here is the link https://comeaboard.co.uk/ce0523li_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=9917943x8M&WVID=55383415pc&LANG=USA
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    Trainee freightliner mendip

    just done my online assessments for the opc , fingers crossed
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    Apprentice Train Driver - Crosscountry - Multiple Locations (09/02/2021)

    I got that email straight away ? I wonder if the system got overworked and only just on catch up
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    Apprentice Train Driver - Crosscountry - Multiple Locations (09/02/2021)

    The salary eventually would be around £61k but that’s only after all routes and traction is signed and steps up in increments to that , it may be a couple of years before you fully hit that mark as newly qualified drivers are normally limited in routes covered . I know last year when I had an...
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    Apprentice Train Driver - Crosscountry - Multiple Locations (09/02/2021)

    I’m 40 1612940595 Yeah I’ve got nothing to lose , but plenty to gain ! Still got a valid drivers assessment as well
  16. Numbnuts846

    Apprentice Train Driver - Crosscountry - Multiple Locations (09/02/2021)

    That’s exactly 12 months since i last applied
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    Guard GWR or SWR

    Yes we do , 1% for the first £1000 taken then 5% after that on sales , you don’t get anything for doing TODs ( pre purchase tickets ) that we can issue on the machines ! Commission has pretty my dried up now with COVID-19 as most people have qr codes , some of our turns we regularly took...
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    Crosscountry Trainee Driver vacancies nationwide

    I had an interview just before lockdown and not heard anything either way so I’m just sitting tight to see what happens
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    GWR service delivery assistant

    I did the job from 1999-2005 covering sda and the sds roles which included ticket office sales as well , Sunday’s are outside the working week when I did the role , loved my time on the platforms and have many happy memories from my time

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