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daddy_badger
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What the fudge, tho its understandable if they require 700 potential new drivers. I suspect this won't be open for long.
SkinnyDave
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Closes on 3rd May-Application in
daddy_badger
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Hmm 9 days well i wish you well, just remember the waiting game.
Crompton Karl
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Where is this advertised? Can't see it on first group careers website.
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anthony263
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Seen this and I have put an application in for this.
Certainly driving trains is a job I have wanted to do from a young age so I do hope I get some good luck.
Certainly driving trains is a job I have wanted to do from a young age so I do hope I get some good luck.
mindthedoors
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They must be completely inundated with applications submitted over the last year or so, i'm suprised this has popped up yet again! I may have a go at this position this time round.. how hard can it be? 
Why would it, its only an application after all. There is no guarantee that the other one will come off. I know of one person who applied for First TPE and FGW, did not make the shortlist for TPE but got a trainee drivers position at FGW. You can withdraw your application at any stage.
Do you mean an open application with FGW for a trainee driver or a different TOC?
If its FGW then is there any point to applying again for effectively the same job, it just means another application that HR have to trawl through and slow an already slow process!
If its another TOC then I don't see why not.
Yes another TOC.
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I would contact First group HR to clarify your situation.
This happned to me a couple of years ago jc1. I was "awaiting shortlisting" for ages. I think it wasn't helped by the fact that I applied right at the end of the application date. When FGW started recruiting again they sent me an email to advise me to reapply if I was still interested.
I'd applied for (and now work for) another TOC in the meantime though so never followed it up.
mindthedoors
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So I've applied for a position at London Paddington and i was wondering..
What routes are covered by the drivers here?
What sort of night shifts do they do?
Why are there so many positions to fill?
What routes are covered by the drivers here?
What sort of night shifts do they do?
Why are there so many positions to fill?
anthony263
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Well one route would be London Paddington - Greenford.
One reason why FGW are recruiting drivers, could be drivers retiring or expecting to retire over the next few years.
Another reason could be expansion such as additional services especially with the up coming electrification projects with a new Reading - Milton Keynes/Bedford and the extra London - Bristol services
One reason why FGW are recruiting drivers, could be drivers retiring or expecting to retire over the next few years.
Another reason could be expansion such as additional services especially with the up coming electrification projects with a new Reading - Milton Keynes/Bedford and the extra London - Bristol services
SkinnyDave
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Hi Red 18,
I have applied too, best of luck to you.
Yes they do but apparently trainees usually start on local work and traction then progress up towards High Speed links.
Thanks Dave, that makes sense really doesn't it?
Did you apply for Bristol too?
I don't know about you but I quite like the fact that the job is only advertised for a few days. It really focuses the mind knowing you only have a short time to complete the application.
Did you apply for Bristol too?
I don't know about you but I quite like the fact that the job is only advertised for a few days. It really focuses the mind knowing you only have a short time to complete the application.
SkinnyDave
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Yeah I went for Bristol
Be prepared for a long wait though judging by some threads
Be prepared for a long wait though judging by some threads
Yes, absolutely.
Although they do potentially have a lot of recruiting to do over the next few years so maybe they'll hurry things along a little bit.
It would be interesting to see if they are recruiting extra HR staff at some point.
Good luck with your application anyway. Let's see what happens.
Although they do potentially have a lot of recruiting to do over the next few years so maybe they'll hurry things along a little bit.
It would be interesting to see if they are recruiting extra HR staff at some point.
Good luck with your application anyway. Let's see what happens.
There are two very distinct setups for drivers at Paddington (and indeed throughout FGW). There is LTV (London Thames Valley) and also High Speed Service (HSS) (also West in the West Country). I don't know of any new drivers who start straight into HSS but it may well happen.
The vast majority of new drivers at Paddington will be LTV. Signing turbos (a small amount sign HSTs) to Greenford, Old Oak Common Depot, Reading (including intermediate branches), Bedwyn and Oxford. Some may sign to Banbury and also to Worcester (happy to be corrected on this).
Paddington HSS Drivers should sign HSTs to Old Oak Common, Bristol TM, Exeter and Plymouth (via Box and the B&H). Also to Oxford, Worcester, Cheltenham/Gloucester and Swansea. Some drivers will sign 57s and fewer still sign 08s.
The two sets of drivers at Paddington live very separate lives and don't tend to mix and interact too much in mess rooms etc. I don't think there's any animosity, however the difference between the two sections is more than just progressing links etc. They have different working agreements and pay etc.
There will be a starter link. This will be limited traction with limited routes. A friend of mine waited 5 years to progress to HSS and tells me it is a dead mans shoes link
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Please look on the Transpennine thread, there is a member that is in late fifties down to the last stage.
anthony263
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Units currently found on local routes around Bristol include class 150/1, 150/2, class 153's & class 158's.
In the future it is likely we wil see some of the class 165/166's currently deployed in the Thames Valley & Reading area' working a few of the local routes around Bristol.
Perhaps a possibility of emu's in the future as well
Correct but not for at least a few years will the Turbos head West.
Bristol West drivers will (I think) sign to Cardiff, Westbury, Severn Beach, Taunton and some to Weymouth. This is not exhaustive as I know more about HSS.
Bristol HSS drivers sign HSTs (some ex-West drivers keep up their DMU knowledge) to roughly the same destinations as drivers at Pad. Like Pad, a small number will sign 08s. Only route exception is that Bristol drivers will sign to St Phillips Marsh Depot rather than OOC (although some Bristol drivers keep this knowledge).
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