Recent content by Greaseball3220

These ones, thanks for your reply, didn't sit the Dover and written communication tests. Group Bourdon tool TEA-OCC (Test of Everyday Attention) Trainability for Rules and Procedures test

Sat stage 1 in 2014, got a letter through the post saying it was an OPC level pass but not an enhanced TOC pass as required. Another TOC accepted the OPC pass but I failed their Stage 2 in 2015. Are both 'lives' gone? Or are these assessments null and void given the 9 to 10 years that have...

Just wondering why the roads/tracks in a depot are sometimes titled as above. More into the travel side than the nerdy anorak stuff so forgive my ignorance on this.

Was begged and bossed into the clerical side of the industry as a youngster when I only wanted to drive trains, ended up at the ticket office of a busy mainline station, as an introvert I detested the nature of the role, the constant talking, questions, the cash handling, the station PA system...

I always like coming into Liverpool Lime St, through all the rock carved tunnels after Edge Hill, you get the sense of arriving in a place apart, more historically sea orientated towards Dublin and America than the rest of England, usually looking forward to a pint or six as well. Further...

Used to work in ticket offices years ago and I hated it with a passion, interacting with the public, the cash handling, the noise and announcements (busy London terminus), bullying management and supervisory culture, pressing the same sequences of buttons and saying the same things day in, day...

Group Bourdon which they failed me on, Tea-Occ as far as I remember. Done again a year later to OPC but not TOC standard.

Does anybody have any contact details for the OPC? Just want to clarify the following. Stage 1 - Fail in 2013 Stage 1 - OPC Pass in 2014 (but not to TOC 'enhanced level') Stage 2 - Fail in 2016 (TOC in question accepted the Stage 1 pass from 2014) Do I get another shot at Stage 2 dependent on...

The sort of people they look for in customer facing roles do exist in a sense. Dizzy, garrulous extroverts usually female or gay blokes with all the attendant gelled up hair and trimmed beards are shoe in's for what VT want on their platforms, trains or ticket offices, the sort of people who act...

They'd have you believe these days that Train Driving was only invented post the introduction of these tests. I know times change but it's pretty bizarre how a closed shop job that barely anybody outside the industry considered has turned into something that 5000 people stampede for as if it was...

Don't discount it that they might have already picked out x amount of people who they've already decided to give the job to, there's almost zero transparency and feedback these days, why should we all assume that the whole interview/selection process is as squeaky clean and bias free as we're...

Thanks for the replies, I think the cash handling and joe public interaction of bus driving would send me spare, you've only got to look at You Tube clips of some of the barney's they have to put up with and get involved in. Never thought of the crane thing before.

I'm of an age now where coupled to how difficult it is to get into I've become semi-resigned to it never happening. I'm aware of the commitments of the role in terms of concentration, learning, shift work, weekend work, etc but it's overriding attraction is the sense of being outdoors and...

Thought there'd be ice skating in Hell before this happening! :o A 'closed shop' doesn't even come close to describing Irish Rail.

I know it's a small network with only one major city by UK metrics but Irish Rail takes nepotism to unheard of levels, it wouldn't shock me they required DNA tests.