Recent content by Breize block

I took early retirement over two years ago, but I still have all my keys in the back of a drawer, including several 'security' keys. There are also a couple of lists or door entry codes in my old diaries, most of which will probably still work. Security is not taken that seriously, however in...

I presume you are a member of ASLEF? If so and you are also on Facebook, I suggest you join the ASLEF group on there and ask the same question in there. You will almost certainly find someone who is at the same Depot/hub that you are interested in, who will be able to give you the low down on...

Do you have a mortgage? Partner? Kids? Is job security important to you? If so then think very carefully about jumping from a safe ship to one holed below the waterline. I was one of those lucky enough to get voluntary redundancy from DB in the mass cull of 2017 and for several years before that...

When I started (in the seventies) one of the things that threw me was PW staff talking about 'switches and crossings' and not points. However the one that I always disliked, was the use of 'turnout' , whilst it may well appear in official manuals somewhere, in my 39 yrs of service I never heard...

Benefits - usually far greater route knowledge, and better more interesting/ varied and generally less monotonous work than passenger work - especially when first starting at a TOC Otherwise that's about it, the downside awful shifts, your social life will virtually disappear, you will get no...

Rough! Thats a walk in the park - Apply to a FOC then you'll find out what a rough shift pattern is!

yeh you know what I mean though And in fact FL green shirts are not quite extinct yet - no more than EWS marroon ones are !

I hope you're right and I think you probably will be, in fact I think FL are going to find that covering this contract will be harder than they think. I also think that there is a high probability that some of the current Westbury DB drivers will be wearing a green uniform this time next year -...

As I know the Westbury drivers personally I won't say too much , but I have no sympathy for DBC. I was one of drivers who took redundancy last year and why they let so many of us go I'll never know, but ever since the clear out of 'unneeded drivers' Westbury have been unable to cover all of...

Unfortunately that is the problem with an open forum If the OP is a member of ASLEF and on Facebook I suggest he(or she?) joins the ASLEF group and asks the same question on there. Or even just does a search on there for previous discussions on DBC, I think that may give them a better picture.

Oh and by the way I'm not a disgruntled ex-employee - I'm a very happy ex-employee 8-)

I was obviously dead wood then ! Lol I'm sure a lot of drivers that left with me on the VRS scheme would be offended by that, DB actually lost a lot of very good, very experienced drivers through that poorly thought out restructuring. There can't be many companies that spend many hundreds of...

As one of the lucky ones who managed to get paid off from DBC last year (and decided to retire early), ask yourself why the voluntary redundancy scheme was heavily oversubscribed , probably over half of the drivers would've left if they could. I've been telling the young drivers to get out from...

I got mine the day I finished, first (part) pension payment about two weeks later .