Recent content by Blakes

I'll guess that you thought I was older then?

Thanks for the info peeps, much appreciated. For what it's worth, I'm 37 now, and it must have been like 28 years ago! Blakes.

As a youngster I developed an interest in the railway and spent a fair bit of time out watching the local line. I grew up in Bootle Cumbria, and I can remember seeing the 'coal train' which was hauled by a class 47, coming from Maryport coal terminal I believe. I also remember the 'mail...

How was the interview? Hope it went well for you. Bootle (Cumbria) is my home village! When I was a kid we used to go and see the signalbox person and he'd let us open and close the gates for him, pull the levers for the signals, and use the 'morse code thing' to communicate with the...

Thanks for the vote of confidence Kylie! Although I had my examples nailed down, I was still wary of any follow up questions they had in store!

Cheers Kylie, and you too! LRV, I know what you mean, however my current employment requires me to pass quite a stringent medical, and I had one not too long ago! But yeah I'm hoping they pool us all together for the initial training. Oh, Kylie, I'm Marc whom currently lives in Scotland but...

Ahhhhhh cin88 gutted for you! On the last question too! Kylie, were we at the same OPC? You're going to York if so.

Awesome, happy birthday fella! I believe the start date is 6th June. I was told by another candidate at the OPC that they were wanting 6 at Carlisle, 6 at Crewe, and 2 at York. However I was thrown a curve ball and was offered a different depot, which I accepted. The first 6 weeks is all...

Superb pal! Absolutely brilliant news!

Cheers Borocarl! I received a call off DRS today. I passed the OPC assessment centre and they have offered me a conditional offer of employment! Obviously I accepted! Chuffed to bits! The girlfriend has already been on rightmove looking at new houses!

Cheers bud, appreciated. Yeah definitely chuffed to have gotten this far! Just really hoping to have cleared what was more or less the last hurdle! I'm sure we'll find out early next week. Time is ticking now so I can't see them hanging around. Fingers crossed for us both pal.

Hey! Had the assessments yesterday. There was four of us there for DRS, two of us in for Carlisle, two in for York. We all passed the assessments, so we're now in the same boat as you LRV, awaiting the outcome of the MMI! Fingers crossed eh! It was a long day for sure, especially as I got back...

Well done LRV, sounds promising!

Cheers bud. I'm sure my nerves will kick in nearer the time!

Cheers bud, much appreciated. I hope you don't give up on this career choice, you'll know what to expect next time round.