Recent content by gb76

Congrats. I am sure to bump into your at St Phillips marsh where all the training happens. You will start off on the 'west' side driving Diesel multiple units (DMU's) on the local lines to taunton, severn beach, gloucester and eventually cardiff, Portsmouth etc.. After 2 years you can put...

Not true I am afraid mate. I am on the Jan 6th Course and while there is one guy who went through in August, the rest of us did our stage 1 in april/early may. I know how frustrating it is but they will get back to you to say if you are through or not...Apart from my DMI I had to wait quite...

I passed the medical with a Bmi MUCH higher then 28. I have quite a bit of muscle that adds more weight aswell. All they need to be able to prove is that you can fit in the cab and you are able to climb into the cab from ballast/track level. If you are relatively proportionate and are not...

Congrats mate. Ill look out for you. :-)

Contract signed, Uniform ordered. Anyone else start in Bristol on 6th Jan?

How did your DM interview go?

I applied in April and it took ages for stage one and 2 to go though. since then after every other stage (3 and medical) i have had a phone call the next morning. the main reason for this is because they were short on training drivers and driver managers in the summer and have now recruited...

Great news! Well done, I had my medical yesterday and a phonecall this morning offering me a Jan start :-) --- old post above --- --- new post below --- Well done Kringle. I have just had the call saying I start on Jan 6th also. Looking forward to it.

Bristol mate. do you have an interview aswell?

Congrats will hopefully see you in jan. Thanks to the guys above as well for the nice words :-)

Thanks, I have got Bristol.

I had my DM interview yesterday. I felt it went ok. Had a phone call this morning saying I was successful. Medical next week. They aren't hanging around!

Sorry to hear that. It will defiantly be the CBI you failed because they won't interview you if you fail the reactions test. You may struggle to get feedback as they are slow telling people that have passed what is going on at the moment let alone people who have failed. But do keep asking. I...

I had the same call last Friday... The woman said I should have a DTM date by the end of this week... She seamed quite sorry about the confusion. But there you go. I don't really mind if it works out ok in the end.

Were you in Newport on 21st oct? if so how did you find out you had passed stage 2? I have not had an email or call. However my status on the website has changed to 'awaiting invitation to interview' so i can only assume I passed.