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Location allowance, (London weighting) is it based in London

December starts so I was told, already recruited around 8 drivers due to start before December. Nearly 4000 have applied for trainee vacancies and if you don't live within the stated distance your automatically rejected. Hope that helps some of you. --- old post above --- --- new post...

Thanks for the reply, What is LOROL's reasoning for looking to recruit 18 more trainees at NXG depot, is it this 24hr Boris business.

Skoodle Have you got many at yours looking to transfer to Chingford should they go on the same T&C as yourselves in the future.

Good luck to all, have any qualified drivers gone for this and had any feedback. Cheers

For you LOROL workers out there, do you get free travel for your dependants, I understand the one for yourself and one nominated person part but what about the children. Many thanks

Thanks that's what I thought, around 6 months I guess then as this is when route knowledge would be lost without refreshers.

Does your licence expire after a certain amount of time out of the industry.

Good luck people, Chingford ain't a cheap area to live though, £1400 per month for a 3 bed is the going rate, I'd try Essex or Hertfordshire for a better standard of living.

Not true, Liverpool street get the same as Chingford, Bishops Stortfort get around £1200 and even Cambridge get £800 and I can confirm this as I've worked at Storford and am now based at Chingford. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- £2673 to be precise, just checked wage slip.

Sounds about right for AGA, just to update they have also missed off the £2700 for London weighting.

No news as yet, may be a good thing or a bad thing, who knows

Read this but start from page 34, seems that they reduced the driver training package down to 38 weeks from 72 but were finding that most new trainees were actually taking nearly 100 weeks so I guess that is why they are going down the already qualified route as they would be saving money, just...

Closing date was the 26th June at 07:30

Received this last night, Dear ????? I would like to thank you for your interest in joining Metro as a Qualified Train Driver. We have received a large number of applications and as you can imagine the applicants come from a range of backgrounds with varying levels of experience. This...