Recent content by Davside84

Unsuccessful at Leamington. Congratulations and good luck to everyone who's through to the next stage!

Nothing here yet either! It's taking longer than the Bletchley position did, although they were a bit quicker than I expected that time. I'm sure we'll hear something soon, good luck everyone!

I was also unsuccessful! Congratulations YoungBuck! I wasn't holding my breath for the Bletchley position, I am 5 miles outside of their catchment area and also do not hold a mechanical/engineering qualification. Fingers crossed for Leamington Spa (which only asked that you were mechanically...

Applied, thanks a lot. I also applied for the Bletchley role which was advertised separately earlier in the month. I haven't heard anything back yet either! I get the impression the process can take some time, so be patient and good luck to everyone.

Applied. Thank you very much for posting this, for some reason I didn't get a job notification via email :|

Unfortunately I can't relocate at the moment, if I was on my own then I would definitely do it as I don't really have any other major ties to Daventry, no kids yet etc. Thanks a lot for all the great information everyone, I appreciate this isn't an easy line of work to get into but I'm in no...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Cherry I am definitely considering applying for a non-driving job then moving internally as well, just got to be careful with wages etc. Whoosh that's good information on the depots. It's so difficult to find where these companies actually operate from. I...

Thanks for your response Lucas! I'll definitely look at those Freight companies, the only one I've looked at so far is DBS, so that's useful information thanks. Bedford is about 45-50 minutes so perfectly doable. I'd obviously have to make allowances if I ever had to be there for say 9am, but...

Sorry, Train Driver.

Hi There, I'm starting the long process of trying to get a job on the rails and wondered if anyone could offer any advice on which companies are within my reach. I live in Daventry, Northants and have signed up to the following TOC's employment portals: GTR (Bedford) Chiltern (Banbury)...

Hello! I've signed up to this forum just to reply to these posts. I've been lurking for a while, keeping an eye on information on job vacancies, but I've loved reading this thread so I thought I'd register and comment. I'm 30 and 3 years ago, after spending most of my 20's killing myself in...