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Trainee Train Driver - London Midland
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Nope, nearest depot is Watford where only a small number of Guards are based. Then its Bletchley/Northampton.
plastictaffy
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Exactly Gadgetman. We have shunters at Camden because we store units in the carriage sidings there outside of the peak hours.
Has anybody heard back about the trainee driver jobs for birmingham? I'm an internal applicant and still haven't heard anything, which isn't unusal for London midland. Just wondering of anyone had a response either positive or negative.
Cotty30
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Nar not heard anything yet and I applied for birmingham. Im hopefully just waiting for an email inviting me to an interview? If the people applying for bletchley have only just had their interviews then im guessing we should hear soon?
Treadstone
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Not all toc's conduct the dfft, it's not a core assessment.
Ive just found this post on an older forum:
The test assesses the ability to think logically, check details, make effective decisions, follow instructions and work under time pressure in order to find and solve faults on a train.
The test consists of 20 diagrams of a new and innovative train system. For each diagram candidates are also presented with the display panel showing different instruments and dials for that particular train, some technical information about the train and a fault finder guide.
The fault finder guide contains information about what to do once you have identified a fault as well as the order of priority for solving faults. Candidates must utilise all of this information to decide which faults to solve, (they only have time to solve the top two faults). They must then identify a code for solving the fault and any other action that may be required to solve the fault.
Also later on in the forum someone mentions that the dials with different priority colours is the practise material for it which we have in our booklet
d_kingscott
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I'm external, passed all my assessments previously, applied for Birmingham as I live there... still not heard anything
plastictaffy
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I haven't had an e-mail yet at all. Stage one is being done this week, I'm not expecting an e-mail until the back end of the week.
from what we were told we should hear tomorrow
i was in the first group yesterday , just as a side thought there were 10 of us and 15 on the afternoon , so were down to 25
so who has got this far has done very well indeed , im not to sure about how i feel i did yesterday , a couple of the glop questions threw me and i only answered about 7 on the fault finding test
so i dont know if thats good enough , im slightly pessimistic
however ive felt like that after previous assessments with the railway,RAF and highways agency and i passed those so time will tell i suppose
fingers crossed and the best of luck to everyone who went along
i was in the first group yesterday , just as a side thought there were 10 of us and 15 on the afternoon , so were down to 25
so who has got this far has done very well indeed , im not to sure about how i feel i did yesterday , a couple of the glop questions threw me and i only answered about 7 on the fault finding test
so i dont know if thats good enough , im slightly pessimistic
however ive felt like that after previous assessments with the railway,RAF and highways agency and i passed those so time will tell i suppose fingers crossed and the best of luck to everyone who went along
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from what we were told we should hear tomorrow
i was in the first group yesterday , just as a side thought there were 10 of us and 15 on the afternoon , so were down to 25
so who has got this far has done very well indeed , im not to sure about how i feel i did yesterday , a couple of the glop questions threw me and i only answered about 7 on the fault finding test
so i dont know if thats good enough , im slightly pessimistic
fingers crossed and the best of luck to everyone who went along
I only answered 7 on the DFFT to mate. Again not sure if that's good enough. Only time will tell
it will mate , im sure i made 1 or 2 mistakes in every test but hopefully it will be good enough
spoke to a couple of my colleagues and hopefully i havent royally messed up the cables and dials lol , i was using the shaded areas inside each dial for priority , light to dark then white as least important and if the arrow was in the same zone i then went to the numbers on the outside low to high
i need to stop fretting
it is what it is at this pointit will mate , im sure i made 1 or 2 mistakes in every test but hopefully it will be good enough
spoke to a couple of my colleagues and hopefully i havent royally messed up the cables and dials lol , i was using the shaded areas inside each dial for priority , light to dark then white as least important and if the arrow was in the same zone i then went to the numbers on the outside low to high
i need to stop fretting
I only answered eight and started on nine on the dfft and past
Hi, new to the forum and first post, so go easy.
Well done to those getting this far and hopefully a positive result.
I've read different TOC's carryout slightly different tests.
So I'd like to ask which tests were carried out during this stage 1 of assessments with London Midland?
Thanks
I know!!! Every time I see an email symbol on my phone I get excited. Open it.. 'RailUK Forums' haha
Sorry mate lol!!!!! Here is another lol
plastictaffy
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Phonecall about 20 minutes ago being invited to stage 2.
Oh really!!!! Well done. I've Heard nothing
plastictaffy
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It may be different protocol for internals - you may still get an e-mail. I did when I applied as a Guard, it only turned to phonecalls when they phoned me with an offer.
I might be ok then. I hope so. Is stage 2 this Friday?
plastictaffy
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I was offered the 25th, 2nd or 8th. I have the worst job on the 8th - so that's the date I chose.
Congratulations!! Only one more stage left haha
How did you think you done in the assessments? Cos I remember you saying you thought you had a bad interview
plastictaffy
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I did the first stage of assessments for another TOC in February. I thought my driver manager interview was a shocker - it can't have been that bad after all. Some of my colleagues think they did even worse, but they passed!!
Ahh right.. did you have to do the DFFT with the other TOC?
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