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A career as a signaller

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Strongly recommend you try to visit any box you have an interview for. Not only is it great to see the rota plus possibly meet someone you could be potentially working with, it obviously looks good for preparation at interview.

Whilst not absolutely essential, I can tell you from experience this certainly helped in my case...

Edit: Do not just turn up at the box expecting to visit by the way, arrange any visit through recruitment who can contact the LOM for permission!
 
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Trackboy said:
Yes mate
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Well done! I also applied but alas no news for me so I guess it's another write off.
Regarding TOC's,On the network careers website, career search page, if you click on map view and find the station in question, clicking on it will list the TOC's that run through there. Hope that helps! Good luck for the interview!
 
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choochoobacca said:
Well done! I also applied but alas no news for me so I guess it's another write off.
Regarding TOC's,On the network careers website, career search page, if you click on map view and find the station in question, clicking on it will list the TOC's that run through there. Hope that helps! Good luck for the interview!
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Thank you. much appreciated :)
 
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Highlandspring said:
Watford closed years ago.
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Aye, long gone are the days when each region had its own schools. I enjoyed Derby.
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Does anyone know anything about Whissendine SB. Which toc uses the line and what form of signalling is involved??
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Cross Country are the most regular TOC, with limited EMT services passing. Freight is provided by numerous FOC's. Take a look on something like Real Time Trains, probably use Oakham as your reference point, to see how busy it is day or night.

AFAIK signalling is Absolute Block both ways, mostly colour light signals and it also supervises two Grade 1 crossings.
 
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A word of caution for anyone attending signalling school. Conduct yourselves in a respectful manner. Understand the Drugs & Alcohol policy, even when you're not in the classroom and be careful of the use of social media. There have been a couple of incidents recently that have led to a short career on Network Rail.

Apart from that enjoy the course and best of luck.
 
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Tom Quinne said:
Best of luck mate, be prepared for a very long wait.
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OneLowban said:
Thanks mate.

Ah okay similar to drivers positions wait then yeah?
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choochoobacca said:
It can take months and months......and then the waiting begins :D
Patience is very much the key word in the NR recruitment process it seems....
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Waiting is definately part of it!!!! Had an interview nealy two weeks ago and still waiting for the outcome....

Patience is a virtue! But hopefully we’ll worth it!
 
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Matt711 said:
Waiting is definately part of it!!!! Had an interview nealy two weeks ago and still waiting for the outcome....

Patience is a virtue! But hopefully we’ll worth it!
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Best of luck mate. How was it?

I’ve been invited to take online tests, is that a general speed of reply at this stage?
 
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OneLowban said:
Best of luck mate. How was it?

I’ve been invited to take online tests, is that a general speed of reply at this stage?
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No idea! Hopefully ok!!

Yes mate, normally takes a few months..... if you think of e erythropoietin g in terms of months rather than days/weeks you can see how long it takes!!!
 
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Matt711 said:
No idea! Hopefully ok!!

Yes mate, normally takes a few months..... if you think of e erythropoietin g in terms of months rather than days/weeks you can see how long it takes!!!
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Sorry I meant was it the general what do you know about the company, competency based questions etc?

Okay cheers will do lol.
 
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Yes mate, 2 overview questions about role NR etc, 8 competency questions based on NTS and then a safety question

Good luck
 
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I have heard that there at not many spaces left for signalling school currently for this year.........
 
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Also waiting for signaller interview results....think 2 weeks now.....interested to see how many get through from here
 
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March1 said:
Also waiting for signaller interview results....think 2 weeks now.....interested to see how many get through from here
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Hi, where did you interview? I had one a couple of weeks back as well but no updates since either. Not getting my hopes up though as it was pretty tough going.
 
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Seishin said:
Hi, where did you interview? I had one a couple of weeks back as well but no updates since either. Not getting my hopes up though as it was pretty tough going.
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Three Bridges...and same one of those interviews that have no idea how it went and some questions think could of done better on
 
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March1 said:
Three Bridges...and same one of those interviews that have no idea how it went and some questions think could of done better on
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Hopefully we will all hear soon, but was told 2-3 weeks in interview so could be next week we find out
 
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A lot of the delays in NR are down to the hiring manager.
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Not so much hiring manager! Earlier this year, my old hiring manager had interviewed and offered job to an applicant... HR hadn't even sent out emails to unsuccessful candidates, until the successful candidate had ready started. I feel HR have no speed or priority... Not saying hiring manager is blameless, but I know how busy they can be!
 
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TRain87 said:
Not so much hiring manager! Earlier this year, my old hiring manager had interviewed and offered job to an applicant... HR hadn't even sent out emails to unsuccessful candidates, until the successful candidate had ready started. I feel HR have no speed or priority... Not saying hiring manager is blameless, but I know how busy they can be!
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That may be because they need a fail safe just in the applicant withdrew or the referencing didn’t come back as they’d hoped.
 
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