First couple of days will be corporate welcome, what the company do, company ethos etc and also collect uniform.
From day 3 you’ll be up the ROC, first few days are disability and also conflict awareness, you’ll then do basic rail, what’s a signal, what’s a set of points etc.
next will be personal track safety, how to keep yourself and others safe in the event you need to go on the track.
next you’ll do the really intense, rules etc and some practical handling doing the job and learning your depots core traction (diesel units). Finally after 6 weeks you’ll have a 200 question exam where there’s very little margin for error.
Once you get your train working licence, you’ll be based at your depot where you’ll learn routes. You’ll be expected to know which stations are not step free access, which stations have starter signals, off indicators, stations with short platforms (especially important for diesel stock with manual selective door opening) any unusual operating procedures (Yeovil - Weymouth for example).
Each section of route is broken into chunks, so Salisbury - Waterloo is assessed as Waterloo - Clapham, Clapham - Woking, Woking - Basingstoke and Basingstoke - Salisbury.
After you’ve signed all your routes (you’ll probably start off in the bottom link with only core routes) you’ll do a few turns shadowing and eventually you’ll be productive.
it’s a lot to take in but they don’t set you up to fail, do the revision, put the effort in and you’ll be okay, it’s not in their interests to fail you during training.
there’s probably bits I’ve forgotten such as the 2 week commercial course, but this has been typed while walking to work.
And remember, 3 T’s and a dog sandwich