Recent content by henke7

Hello, as other people have answered, you should be ok in Off Track and Pway if colourblind. You can definitely hold PTS so don’t worry about that. My old off track team leader was colourblind. However as somebody said it’s a bar from joining S&T or any other job working with signalling equipment.

Fair enough man understandable, it’s hard one to get around this cause you don’t know roughly when the next date will be. If you can’t have a flexi day or that then maybe just bite the bullet and ask for another date. It’ll happen just a question of when I suppose.

Call in sick?

Passed my medical early May and received my contract end of July with a start date of September.

All due respect drivers don’t care about people waiting to start training. It’s all a moot point unless it’s voted through anyway. I know a lot at my depot who are outright against Sunday being brought into the working week. They’re scared of losing their long weekends and losing their extra...

I’m in the training school this week and apparently it’s still being discussed, speaking to a few of the trainer’s.

Nonsense!

I was an S&T technician before my current role. Internally you would be asked to carry out tests and diagnose faults with equipment. Practical wise for yourself as an external, I don’t really know what they could have you doing. As you don’t have any experience with S&T equipment. I do know...

Are you internal or external?

@garto123 have a read of ‘RIS-3751-TOM’ the tests last 5 years in the case of a pass. Only thing that ScotRail could ask you to reset is the DMI.

It's a campaign for a talent bank, ScotRail are under no obligations to give anyone a job in there. Plus the majority of applicants will probably fail at some stage of the process. Honestly if you think this is bad have a look at the Avanti threads. Can never have enough people lined due to...

It’s not just about vacancies being open as well, there’s a shortage of driving instructors. Some depots have much lower numbers of staff compared to others. A lot of other TOCs use talent banks and it makes sense, unfortunately it’s rubbish for people waiting 100%.

Major shortage of Di’s at the moment. I know of a few people at central who finished at atrium court in early January still without one and there’s another intake behind them.

I’d imagine you would need to apply again and that would involve doing the online tests again. If you have passed the actual train drivers assessments then they wouldn’t need to be set again. I had failed the DMI the first time of asking and then had to reapply (pass the sift) and went...

Those new tests are a joke, seen a few examples from some internal applicants.