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Recent content by fermit

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    LNER Trainee Driver Jobs (18/03/2020)

    Thanks for the advice - I think I'l wait and see if I need to re-take anything and make call based on what may need enhancing!
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    LNER Trainee Driver Jobs (18/03/2020)

    I am sure this has been answered before, but if you have passed the psychometrics to the national standard, but need to re-do some to meet the standard LNER require - what would happen to your national result if you subsequently failed the attempt for LNER? I am in a position where I am waiting...
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    Doncaster - Northern Psychometric testing

    Yep - exactly the same for me.
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    Northern Train Driver Application

    I'm in the same boat - applied in October 2019, interviewed and passed everything in January - got an email with "feel free to keep applying / we'll let you know when we have dates for a training course". I guess time will tell.
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    Driver assessment for Northern: should the change of operator be a concern?

    Congratulations too! For Leeds? Yep - I was told courses were going to be monthly also - fingers crossed it's just a case of getting the ducks in a line.
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    Driver assessment for Northern: should the change of operator be a concern?

    Application middle of October 2019, Call just before Christmas to ask if I was still interested (!), Interview January, Tests and MMI two weeks later, 4 days after got the email to say I had passed.
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    Driver assessment for Northern: should the change of operator be a concern?

    I passed last Tests & MMI last Wednesday and got the email saying - "we're awaiting training dates, 9 months etc" yesterday. This was for a trainee driver position in Leeds - fingers crossed all will carry on and the call will at some point come!
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    TPE Mark 5A coaching stock progress

    Much appreciated.
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    TPE Mark 5A coaching stock progress

    Does anyone know which was the plastic wrapped at Longsight today (around 13.30 on 6th Sept)? I wouldn't say no to the identity of the 37 and barrier coaches either. Thanks in advance.
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    Train Describer Messages

    From January when HU closed.
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    66604 Engine Blown

    So that's what happened - we have some little visitors at the moment, so we "timed" our visit to Slaithwaite but it never showed - 20 mins of wairing for it to change berth was enough for the little ones to get bored. Rescue came bang road from Marsden - and we got to watch the rescue pass...
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    Aber hourly service,warning.

    A friend of mine was growing oats in the fields next to the railway last year - she seems normal. :D --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Plenty of trains have been running up and down between Machnylleth and Aberystwyth for the last few days. It ran empty from Mach and was one of...
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    Caersws signal box/was it goodbye last night?

    Aberystwyth has lost all RETB signs and TPWS grids this morning.

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