Recent content by hiredgun

Me too..... I applied 3/11, sounds like the emails are being sent out

I can’t help thinking if you apply with a TOC/FOC and pass, your through, no fuss. If you bring your own ‘shop bought pass ticket’ it may have different tests and they have to mix and match to see if it qualifies.... when they’ll have more than enough people who’ve gone through their testing...

Exactly my point. For me it wasn’t the money but the feeling I was looked down on (whether real or in my head) but I have a greater respect now for people who are happy to ‘stick as they are’

It feels, sometimes, like train drivers are the kings of the railway. The vast majority of threads are of people looking to find driver jobs, pass the psycho tests, get through interviews and sitting in talent pools, waiting for offers etc etc Yet there are plenty of roles in the rail industry...

Sw1ller... I couldn’t agree more with your first paragraph. But feel the second to be fairly odd!! The railway have been trying to stop SPAD’s for years, maybe the answer is to make all drivers apply more than 3 times??

This is how it is designed to be. The OPC send out some ‘practice material’ which are similar exercises but essentially different from the actual test. Therefore the actual test, on the day, is quite fresh, to see if you have the abilities. If they wanted people to have the actual test in...

It feels like a large amount of topics here are hopeful people applying for driver positions or awaiting stage 1/2 tests, asking for tips or insight into the tests, fair enough I guess. A word of caution, if I may, though? As is regularly replied on these pages, the tests are carefully...

Looks like there was a post on this thread, 27th Jan, asking about the latest course.... no answers - so could training have been suspended?? If so there will be a delay to allow sufficient gap between courses, I would imagine??

Interesting thread this... There is a newly qualified driver at my depot who has some ‘space age’ type googles. He’s red/green colour blind but, I understand, was a traffic cop before hand. They are like an old WW1 pilots helmet and using some hokus-pokus transform the colours into something...

For the TRP1 memory test, try to memorise the RSSB rule book... will stand you in good stead when doing your rules course!!! Makes my head spin just thinking about it....o_O Single-line pilotman working:'(!!!

;););)Those people may be on a course, at another TOC/FOC or lost interest when you go again, leaving you in the top 5 candidates?

Sorry to hear that. Feel with the tier 4 that training will be disrupted anyway. Maybe the ‘tables will be cleared’ and they’ll start fresh again, the fact you got to interview might give you the edge next time??

Anyone got a course start date in 2020??

Getting the right answers!!

Well done, where are you two going to be based??