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Yeah, pretty much. Getting off at Carlisle and heading back to Perth. The train is continuing South though.

Yeah moving again, but southward. Bailing at Carlisle as plans ruined. They did offer to book us alternative flights to be fair to them.

I've heard that we are going back to Edinburgh now. Probably makes sense given the length of delay, crews hours etc.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CalSleeper/status/1223478873280712704 Loco blocked by a trans pennine now apparently.

Ah thanks, not far away now hopefully. Can't see it going forward to London now.

Is that Tony green ex perth?

I blame Brexit.

Cheers. We are still stationary and no sign of a loco. Train is in darkness and pretty tomb-like. Wonder how long it will block the main line for. Any other time of the day and it would be carnage.

It's broken down. Lost power. Getting dragged back to Edinburgh possibly. Been somewhere near Carstairs for nearly 3 hours. Was supposed to be flying to France today. Ah well.

cheers mate! just need to rent my house out now to help to pay for it :wink:

Yes, thats what happened in my case. I applied for a trainee driver position at chingford having done my opc with scotrail, but as I understand it those were all taken by depot drivers from ilford moving across. This left 6 full time depot driver vacancies at Ilford, one of which I was lucky...

emailed sandra at hr last week, still no news but keep in touch. Does anyone how long are the test results valid for, or is it different for each toc? Good luck to anyone else waiting as well, its like chinese water torture isn't it.

Thanks mate, it was a bit of a gamble. I'm working again now so at least the bills are being paid. Hopefully a drivers job isn't too far away.:)

Nothing either mate, I heard a rumour of 4 classes of 8 trainees each in the new year, but nothing from hr yet.

Its encouraging that the people delayed from October 2009 seem to be on courses now. I'm waiting for a medical for Inverness, but only had the tests in august so judging by the others, could be in for a bit of a wait.

Looks like you have time for a cup of tea then :wink:

thanks mate i really appreciate it, its probably too late to change my mind now too, am having serious second thoughts already, but just going to apply for everything and hope for the best.

Have heard back from scotrail now, the decision on when to run the course has been delayed till the end of the year/start of next year. So after some deliberation I've decided to take the scary and difficult decision not to renew my contract with the RAF and chase my dream to become a train...

Cheers mate, I'll let you know if i hear back from them in time.

Yeah Palace mate, but didn't want to admit that in case the quality of advice went down :wink: Personally I'd be happy settling in Elgin, although becoming a driver anywhere is my top priority. It would be easier getting to matches if i was with HEX though :)