Recent content by gooson

That's interesting chief planner, instead of ringing atoc direct I think maybe it's best to let my human resources/union try and make contact, it might sound better from them

The new fgw 1st class refresh coaches have a light sensor and dim automatically :)

I did loosely ask the union rep a few years ago but he wasn't forthcoming at the time, it's only now that we have issues at our depot with a lack of work due to new trains coming and the threat of redundancy and relocation has arisen that the green rule book has been read through and now he...

Ah ok, thanks for your help, i'll give them a call tomorrow and maybe get our union rep to ask the question too , cheers

Ok thanks , couldn't get through today so try again tomorrow, cheers

This is a screen shot of the section, hope you can read it!!

We have a so called green book of workshop terms and conditions in work , in there it says if the end of an apprenticeship should be classed as made redundant if no posts are available, i'll get a screen shot of that section in a bit and post it

Hi , I did a 4 year engineering apprenticeship with British rail from 1992 to 96, at the end no jobs were available so I was made redundant or end of contract really! After less than 2 years I was then re employed by first great western in the same job/location as before and am still working...