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The best way to remove the need for qualified Drivers is to reduce the establishment. If your depot is 100 Drivers and you are under subscribed at 90 then if you reduce the establishment to 90 then you are no longer under subscribed.
Bedford is reducing by quite a fair bit.
Keep up the optimism. You have passed and may still be offered a position.
Yep, from 260 to 140
If I'm honest I think the one area they will need drivers is Kent. Gillingham and orpington are going to be shared depots with se with reduction in se work for orpington. That's why they are being offered the chance to move over.
If 140 odd drivers move from Bedford the chance of them needing any at St Albans and Luton will be very slim, that leaves Cricklewood. Don't forget there's still a lot of trainees in tge system that haven't even started their driving yet.
If 140 odd drivers move from Bedford the chance of them needing any at St Albans and Luton will be very slim, that leaves Cricklewood. Don't forget there's still a lot of trainees in tge system that haven't even started their driving yet.
No offers have been made at all yet or any internal communication about new depots. Orpington and Victoria already do a fair amount of work for GTR and I can see how easy it would be to transfer over staff. The reduction in SE work will simply be the top link at Orpington losing the 319 work so its a minimal loss.
With Blackfriars closing as well. Potentially that's Cricklewood sorted already and I know a few Blackfriars Drivers are already Kent based. I've spoken to a few and they are going north to avoid the TfL takeover that's rumoured.
I certainly see a pause in recruitment until numbers are sorted and that staff movement is confirmed.
Yeah I agree with Cricklewood probably already covered but I know a lot of blackfriars drivers don't want to go back orpington way as that's where most of them came from to escape se lol.
The documentation clearly says jobs will be offered to se driver's but like you say it's probably only to cover a lot of the work they already do.
I think those to the North will have the most issues
The documentation clearly says jobs will be offered to se driver's but like you say it's probably only to cover a lot of the work they already do.
I think those to the North will have the most issues
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If they move to Sunday's being included in the working week would they need even more drivers to cover that? I presume they would.
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Talk of split depots for Sundays? Is that after EMT's awful pay deal which wasn't a yes/no vote, but an 'opt in to a rubbish Sundays, with no maximum number of rostered Sundays per year, deal', or an 'opt out, but have a deal that was even worse financially and made you stuck with unfairly less annual leave if you were an ex-Central Trains driver, deal'?
Doubt it.
I'm still confident everyone will eventually get offered a course, even if Bedford downscales they will need trainees at some point. I doubt recruitment will know, they just get fed info from managers when a course is coming up, might be worth a call though.
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I called last week and got the default response
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Brighton isn't having a partial closure, its just being resized. A lot of the Brighton drivers live nearer to Three Bridges so they were offered positions there if they wanted them, so there will be a reduction in drivers, but just moving them to another depot, there are quite a few services from Bedford which terminate at Three Bridges so that will be very handy for them
Brighton is obviously a Southern Terminal as well, and it wont amalgamate.... well I cant see that happening, despite this big GTR Umbrella were all under, it seems its still quite separate Southern/TL
I also read on the thread somewhere about Hornsey? Someone mentioned it, I spoke to a fitter from there a few weeks ago and all the fitters are going, a lot of them were offered Three Bridges I think, but for some its too far, and I have a feeling that Siemens will have there own crew for maintenance of the new 700's
Blackfriars, yes I have heard that its going, and that most will be going to Cricklewood, but this is the Railway, and those working within it will probably tell you if they say 2018 they mean 2022 or 2035 lol
As for the trips to Sutton from Luton, I heard a rumbling that LOROL might take that peticular route... who knows, better ask the Magic 8 Ball
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The sutton services will start and finish at St Albans.
In relation to brighton being a partial closure I'm just using the term gtr used in the documentation they sent out.
Call it what you want but there are guys who will have to move. I've heard they still want 60 at brighton though so a fair old chunk still.
In relation to brighton being a partial closure I'm just using the term gtr used in the documentation they sent out.
Call it what you want but there are guys who will have to move. I've heard they still want 60 at brighton though so a fair old chunk still.
If this is the case they should let people know and not drag it out.
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