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Hi All, I was just having a ponder over how the division of work as well as staff occurred when privatisation came into force. Was it on a request basis or was it based on seniority? Perhaps it was something else like route/traction knowledge? Any info or anecdotes would be interesting to discover.

0-50 from the torque converter, 50-80 from the first fluid coupling and then 80-100 on the 2nd (roughly).

Now then comrades, bit of a nerdy one for you. I've just got a drivers job (buzzing) and I'm looking to see if anyone has the specific standard for sunglasses? I'm a tail lamp currently for the same company but where i hail from Guards are forbidden from wearing them. I wear prescription...

Just an update about TPE at Lime street. Liverpool Lime Street: Traction: 185, 802 Liverpool L St-Manchester Vic via Newton-le-Willows Edge Hill-Manchester Airport via Warrington Central Manchester Picc-Leeds via Marsden and Dewsbury Huddersfield-Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate...

Rightly or wrongly, in a blame culture industry like the railway, personally i'm going to make every announcement my company requires me to do. While i do share the annoyance, in my lived experience most people simply do not listen. I wont be caught out with the "well nobody told me" excuse. On...

I was the guard on this one, it was due to my previous work being extremely late impacted by waiting for a pilot-man. I do believe i made announcements when i arrived at about 1735 though unless you was sandwiched in the rear carriage with me i’ve no way of knowing how audible my announcement...

so is that no LNER then?

ah so with the freedom to travel on LNER and GC as well as Northern, that opens up a huge part of the country. Do Arriva not own GC anymore or does it have something to do with them being open access? also, which one is the Duty Authority travel card again...

hello comrades. Just a quick one, I started with Northern at Lime street last Monday and was just wondering if anybody could explain to me the current employee travel benefits as they stand since parting ways with Arriva. May as well get to using it as soon as my pass arrives. Would I also be...

Yeah, good idea, thanks! I was going to download the Bourdon Test file pinned but I'm on a MacBook so it might be a matter of whacking on the printer, as well as some deep digging on the company.

That's the plan I think. let it all play out, hope I get through the paper sift and then begins the hard graft preparing for the interview processes.

Evening Comrades, Sorry to disrupt the flow of the thread with a question. Would I be right in assuming that as I applied for the last trainee driver post from Liverpool and got to the stage of submitting the two initial assessments, I'll be waiting for a long old time for any kind of update at...