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Wolverhampton Drivers depot for Avanti West Coast Old school link progression, start off in Link 4 Currently a 25 line roster consisting of extreme earlies, extreme lates, a week of rostered nights, some middle shifts (well, 1 currently starting at 10:11), some weeks of spare and a week of...

If approved I think this will be the only UK passenger rail service to cover Wales, England and Scotland in a single journey, impressive and very much needed!

Evening folks Qualified Train Drivers wanted for both Wolverhampton and Liverpool depots. https://www.avantiwestcoast.co.uk/about-us/careers Closing date of the 12/8/2023. Best of luck for those applying. Harold

Agreed! The Platform 8 prohibition was brought in approx 6 years ago, would have thought platform 17 would have been risk assessed at the same time but thats the railway for ya.

Correct AFAIK, provided platform 7 was blocked as it was, Platform 8 at Clapham Junction is deemed "unsafe" for passengers to board and alight due to the gap between the train and the platform, particularly towards the country end. The thing with that proceedure is that you are then expected to...

Richard Clinnick advises a pathway for Units 001 and 003 to Oxley tomorrow (Thursday 2/2/2023) is scheduled after it was cancelled on Monday 30/1/2023 owing to "paperwork issues": https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K03476/2023-02-02/detailed

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:K05060/2023-01-30/detailed - With the light engine move pathway already posted I noticed this pathway running to Oxley later on in the day on Monday 30/1/2023.

Hi all If have a spare 27mins from 09:33-10:00 Very interesting to watch and proves under virgin trains the timetable they had was heavily reliant on rdw. Filmed on Wednesday 12/10/2022 https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/6384e02e-7ef4-4801-afc6-b063a7384c82

I drove it this morning to London. First full 9 car ive seen and driven in passenger service. Notice the different colours on 005? The plain white paint rather than the silver vinyls as seen on the other 2 units? The passenger interior is better (refurbed) shame 1st class, and lack of "power...

Hi there, Just seen your post about the GWR interview, congratulations. Are you a qualified driver? May I ask wht depot it is for as the interview I had was for a qualified drivers role at Exeter. The questions they ask you from what I remember are: 1. Why are you applying? 2. What do...

Hi all, Hope you are all well, especially for those who have been on this forum for as long as I have even longer. Ive searched through google and this forum and cant seem to find answers to the question. Im a mainline Train driver for South West Trains and have been fully productive for 3...

Degsi00, Hi there, used to work for Southern for 4 years before transferring to South West Trains (currently training as a mainline driver). I can say for Guard (Conductor as Southern call them) they use the SCAAT test, for Driver they'll use Group Bourdon as far as I know. If you...

Hi Badu If I were you id give them a ring today if you can, As far as I know they only froze recruitment whilst the olympics where on. I could be wrong though. They are still running courses this year as far as Im aware. October course should of started recently, November Course starting soon...

Hi this Tuesday? id get revising if I where you, should be in 2 parts, if I remember rightly, part 1 is fault finding and group bourdon and part 2 (done on a separate day) is trainability part 1 + 2, dtg reactions test (colours and sound reaction) and structured interview. For this Tuesday...

hi mate, sorry to hear that news, with swt, I know what its like, alot of the time I just emailed instead of ringing them up so I had information given to me in some form of writing. Im sorry to hear that news tho mate. Was it the only bit you didnt pass? if so mate, at least you know where you...