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There's a document from March 23 doing the rounds which lists all operators (freight/pax/OA/E* etc) salaries and hours. The disparity is enormous between the top TOC and bottom TOC (I say TOC with intent as I don't think Eurostar, which is top of the tree counts as it's quite a unique and...

Why do we always see these threads? Why's it always police? Never see threads that are Tesco workers wanting to come to the railway lol

I'm personally a fan of headgear with smarter uniforms as I feel it completes the look, but of course as already mentioned only when the rest of the uniform/brand is equally smart and professional. Having recently spent some time in France, a lot of the SNCF staff I saw at stations had sort of...

Ah, my mistake

Yeah, as mentioned, I don't personally reckon any new Thalys/Eurostar fleet will be anything but Alsthom

My money's on the new TGV-M, does anyone know if the length requirement still remains for trains using Eurotunnel? If not I can see doubled up sets being used on London services to provide a common fleet perhaps, but this digresses from this thread's topic

The last I heard was indeed the Eurostar red/blue concept, but I believe into the mid to long term a single unified brand design is the goal

There's a new unified livery/uniform etc coming in the next few years which will supersede both current Eurostar/Thalys liveries and uniforms, it'll just be a mess until this is all complete, as we in the UK are very familiar with our TOCs changing hands frequently

If you have no french you'll do a 6/7 month full time 5 days a week course including some time spent in France staying with a host family.

I think all the disney's are usually 373's

I understand that Eurotunnel provide Thunderbird services on HS1 with their krupps locos, is this done by these same drivers or is it contracted out to DB or whoever? If its Euurotunnel drivers then surely they would have to hold a proper driving license to operate on HS1 infrastructure?

The gradients on HS1 are incredible, it's up and down like a rollercoaster

I worked in a coffee shop before I came on the railway, everyone on my original course 10 years ago was not from a police or army background, car sales people, truck drivers etc, ordinary jobs

It's funny, I've been on the railway for 10 years, and until recently I worked for one TOC, well, one regional area the whole time. I just assumed the slang we used was normal everywhere, that was until I boldly said in my new messroom the other day "I've got to go and bring a set of cars from...

Yeahhhh that's not accurate at all lol

Would be great but you need TCF Level B1 min not GCSE lol. Unless you fancied applying and doing the TCF exams before the first stage I suppose.

Some 4 have to get it, no reason it shouldn't be any of you, well, assuming u can speak French apparently

Probably some more than you'd think

No, only French drivers also do TM duties, UK drivers only drive. RDW agreement currently but historically there hasn't been

Yes but it's not widespread is it. Yes not much room for error with KVB, which makes the driver concentrate much harder on speed and the signal aspects that create that braking curve. In my opinion KVB has a lot of plusses when compared to TPWS.