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if I’d have got to the final interview stage and was up against other people for limited positions, I wouldn’t be posting the interview questions in an online forum Pay is 29k for 9 months 42k until 12 months after completing your driving hours 57k thereafter

Don't put your life on hold awaiting a train driver job. Most people I know have taken anything between 2 to 5 years to be offered a job with various factors affecting how long it had taken. Even then it's worth considering that from the initial pool of applicants, only 0.3-0.5% of people are...

Usually it follows this standard process and you have to pass each stage to get to the next: Stage 1 tests Stage 2 tests including multi-modal interview (competency based with OPC) Driver Manager Interview can’t see them doing a driver manager interview before they’ve completed all the...

Driver or guard

West Mids Trains

I’m soon to be joining the railway industry as a driver. Having come from the police (surprise surprise) I enjoyed many discounts through blue light card, emergency service days, mobile phone discounts and the odd free kebab etc Question is... whilst I know we get free and discounted train...

As above. Parking is provided at Ellis Street. Bear in mind they will be bringing in an emissions zone charge in Jan 2020 for vehicles with high emissions however it’s only older cars and HGVs which tend to be affected (about 40% of vehicles). It wouldn’t surprise me if they change the...

Anyone starting 11th November?

When I recently had an ECG the nurse did not seem confident in the placement of the leads. When the results were printed out, I’m not expert but even I could see the graph was wonky as anything and looked far from normal. Referred to the doctor who advised that “either the last three people to...

No I didn’t receive that email. I phoned them up as everything seemed to stall after passing the manager interview. They told me then that I’d been put on a course in November, subject to medical which they’ve got a bit of a backlog for.

There’s a course scheduled for 11th November 2019. All places have been provisionally allocated to those who have passed the managers interview. There’s still a backlog of medicals to take place so some people may not have been informed they’re on a course yet!

Hi, Just looking for some further information on the training as a driver with West Mids Trains. - How long is the initial training course? - What is the initial starting salary and at what points does it increase? - What is the policy around annual leave whilst in training? Is it...

I’ve been advised that they are looking at courses in October and November. Judging from the other replies they are giving around 2 months notice before sending offers out so I’m holding out that they will be making contact August for the October course and September for the November course. I’m...

On the waiting list here too

Same here