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Just wondering if anyone could shed some light on the mainline depots at Cardiff (TFW) and Derby (EMR) from the perspective of qualified drivers joining these companies please. From what I can work out you have to serve your time doing local work first (which I have no problem with), but unlike...

During the really hot weather last week I overheard some passengers telling another passenger at the ticket machine not to buy a ticket as "they don't check them any more". The person thanked them for the information and went into the station without buying one. I get the impression that quite...

Just an observation... the amount of blatant drug dealers, runners and addicts I've seen on the trains this week has been through the roof. Its probably no worse than normal but with so few normal people around they stick out more than ever. I guess the police have other fish to fry, but if I...

Just wondering if anyone can shed any light on why Cross Country seem to have so many regular driver vacancies at Birmingham New Street? I've been looking around TOCs for qualified jobs for a while now and I've seen that depot advertised for routinely. I would have thought that in the Birmingham...

Just wondering what the best depots would be if looking to relocate away from the south east? I'm not bothered about money but quite fancy decent routes rather than stop-start metro work which I mostly do now. I've got a couple of door related incidents on my file but no spads or TPWS. Been...

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet but a few papers ran this story the other day and, as you can imagine, its been doing the rounds on social media. I remember the guy, didn't know him well but knew him to say hello to. I don't know the full circumstances of his sacking however I know he...

Reading some other posts about Sundays got me thinking about this. I'm on a 4 day week with Sunday inside but I know Thameslink have a certain number of committed Sundays as OT - making the weeks you have to work a Sunday five day week but four the rest of the time. I know there are other...