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I would presume not. There are a shed ton of people either leaving/trying to leave for various reasons. Now has never been a better time to get in as a trainee.

A bit late, but the interviews have been concluded last week.

1. Does happen often 2. It makes it harder but not impossible, what will matter more is what happened after. (Did you learn from it, did you do something again etc) 3. Its very very easy. You apply, ATOC check, get offered a position, medical, you move. 4. A clean record above anything else...

It will be the same as any driver managers interview in the UK. Its personal chat with managers about you. Really high turnout for this one, well into the 3 digits.

Id rather be at a place that treats its staff well, good conditions, well thought out diagrams and fair pay awards. The days of intercity work necessarily being the best place to go are well truly over. Literally anything goes these days and you’ll see moves from Intercity to Metro, Metro to...

They are a great bunch. They were unlucky as many things happened in sequence meaning they are essentially still stuck in 2018 in terms of pay with no sign of that changing anytime soon and they know that. Alot of TOCs had multi year deals in place prior to the pandemic which then rolled into...

The below is a good overview. Just to add, Liverpool Street West Anglia originally was created exclusively with displaced Chingford drivers who were not senior enough to remain when the company split. No-one went there by choice. GA are doing a good job by being preemptive, alot of intrest...

It’s likely to have a mass exodus soon, hence the Trainee vaccancies popping up. GA are being proactive to mitigate that possibility. Theyve also had a qualified ad up for what feels like 3 years that hasnt really yielded any intrest. Now has never been a better time to get into GA if you can.

Without sundays though. Include them and your past the other depots with alot less intense work content, which is why people are happy to transfer in on to the lower base salary and probably partly why they don’t recruit trainees directly on T&Cs they feel are from the past. Either way...

63.6k not including sundays.

You can use lieu days for individual days which are credited for working a bank holiday or rest day. You can choose whether to bank a lieu day or take the enhanced pay for that day worked. No taxi arrangements other than taxis within job diagrams. Earliest start is 0500 latest finish 0130, 1...

Outside committed. Unless before annual leave, then guaranteed off. Identical to GA West, which Chingford is a devolution of.

4 rostered days per week Mon-Sat. Sundays are NOT part of the working week but are commited. If you put yourself “not available” on the weekly sheet and there are enough people who want to do extra you get it off. If there arent you are “declined” you come in and work. There are 26 sundays in a...

Diagrams are 6-9 hrs (maximum 9). Average length 7hr30…(vast majority are 6hr30 to 8 hrs) PNB rostered 55min or 1hr10 usually (minimum 40min) Most jobs are round trips consisting of Chingford-London-Enfield or Cheshunt-London-Chingford with the same after a PNB CHI is 26 mins CHN is 36 mins ENF...

Likely, as there are still at least 70 people on hold from the last qualified ad that will be re-applying, plus anyone with new applications. You are not wrong. There have been enquiries from some suprising TOCs associated with some of the most sought after kind of work in the country. The DFT...

https://jobs.deutschebahngroup.careers/en_US/jobsGlobal/JobDetail/Qualified-Train-Driver/247320 Closes officially 30th of June, but as is the case with most ARL vaccancies it’ll be gone long before that.

Initially, the plan was to take on 4 qualifieds from this advert. However, there is a disagreement with the roster ongoing and it looks like instead of 4 extra lines itll be just the 1. Until it’s agreed what the roster will look like there will be no movement Im afraid. Also other internal...

No. Countless times I’ve been told not to stop somewhere and I whizz through the platform indicators showing as if I’m still stopping, countless times you make an additional stop and nobody at the station even knows the train exists. As above bottom line is if it’s not via GSMR or via a stop...

Stock dependant. On mine at a stand yes. I can view any CCTV on the train live but the Menu it is in disappears after 4mph. If you are viewing live CCTV and pull away the TCMS (Train Control Management System) will revert to its default page. Its not something you have to do but I know alot of...

They've just been left behind. Even with the talks getting anything half decent they'll still be far behind the pack. All of their surrounding TOCs have been progressively getting better in terms of not just pay, but T&Cs diagramming etc. Certainly on the bits I know they've been going backwards...