Recent content by jscho84233

Nothing wrong with looking out the window. It's officially called the "look back" method of dispatch. Providing the platform is straight or left hand curved, you look out the window. If you can see every set of doors, you dispatch. If there are passengers in the way of seeing every door, you...

Ah, so you got redundancy, huh? Jammy begger! I would've done anything for that! Voluntary? Looks like I'm stuck with my 6 years then. Well, 1 down 5 to go! And... Apologies for hijacking the thread - and to give an answer to the OP -I'm not sure of GA's policy about time off for training...

I had no idea you could do that. How do you go about doing that? Thanks!

The program has been attached to a post in the "How to become a train driver" sticky thread, along with the reaction test program, courtesy of TheVicLine. Please see here: http://railforums.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1262664&postcount=378

There is no need to revise sandite. One of the trainability for rules test asks you to read a passage of information, whilst listening to someone reading the same passage aloud on CD. You then have a further 7 minutes to make notes on what you have heard and read. The written passage and your...

If the training location is more than two hours from your home depot, they pay for hotels.

The classroom training is all over the place. We will be at Paddington, Reading, Swindon and Bristol for various parts of the classroom stuff. The train handling part will be at our 'home station', Oxford in my case.

Basically after qualification the amount to repay is the percentage of the 2 year period which remains at the date of leaving, but not more than £5.5k. So if leaving straight after qualification, you would repay £5.5K, but if you leave after a year and a half, you would repay £1,375. (25%...

I can only answer question 2 - I've just signed a contract for FGW. I also had to sign an additional "Agreement for Funding of a Train Driver Vocational Training Programme". One of the conditions in that states that should I leave FGW within 2 years after qualifying I would have to repay some or...

Yep, the forum has been a goldmine of helpful information. Well, I look forward to meeting you on Monday!

Welcome to the forum, stoffus! You have been very quiet! Have you been lurking this whole time?

To kick off then - I'm starting on the 5th at Oxford. For those interested in the length of the training programme, it is planned at 45 weeks.

The OP just needs to call them and ask them hypothetically without giving them a name!

Agreed. I had been practicing on the PC at home, and when I got to the assessment and did it on paper, I found that I was much more confident. OP, get hold of some practice GB papers and give it a go. As to the implications on your first application should you fail, it may be worth calling the...

Im not entirely sure, someone will correct me soon if I'm wrong, but I believe that priv discounts can only be used for anytime tickets. EDIT: Damn! Beaten to it by seconds!