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After you have passed everything else you will get a medical date, and based on you passing your medical you will get a contract and a firm start date.

There’s loads of information about the assessment day and Dmi, I know I did a big post on it and someone else wrote paragraphs about their experience.

Have you read the northern thread? There’s loads of info about the assessment day on there

They have grade 3 camera crossing panel as well

Sounds like someone is a little bit bitter? My experience of the assessment day was positive, the people that needed to be cut got cut. It’s a difficult job to get into and if you didn’t make it past the first two assessments I’d suggest it’s not the job for you.

If you read back through this thread there’s lots of info on what the day consists of

Yes, exactly the same. They also do a test to make sure you are not colourblind

TOCs have different requirements and nobody really knows what each’s pass marks are. I do however know that Northern require enhanced on the paper tests but only national on the computer tests. 1770295151 https://www.theopc.co.uk/files/ADVICE_Train_Driver_Standards.pdf Whilst most TOC’s say...

Do you want to be a Train Manager? If the answer is yes, then apply for it. If it's no, and you are only doing it in the hope of getting a drivers job I wouldn't recommend it. Yes you are more likely to pass the application stage and go through to psychometrics, but only about 20% of people pass...

Don’t stress yourself with that yet, get through the assessment day first, if you get through that have a look at the assessment and medical thread for advice, northern will also send you a huge document detailing the tests. There is a wealth of information on this forum, and that magnifying...

Get a good nights sleep the day before. Don’t try and blend in to the group, you need to stand out (but without being overbearing) Genuinely I didn’t prepare anything as I didn’t know what the assessments would be. The assessment day tests are clearly done to assess your team working skills...

It very much depends, most TOC's recruitment takes forever from what I've gathered, however, not all. I have been super lucky in that I applied on 2nd October, passed everything including medical by the 15th December and had my contract with start date before Christmas. I start in April, but...

Of course

Have you got offers from all 3? If not I’d stay in the running for all of them and only withdraw from the others when you have a firm offer

4 months and no issues whatsoever. They gave me a preliminary course date which was 5 months away, I then had to get my medical and contract before I could hand my notice in, fortunately that happened to give me the full 4 months to play with. By the time the contract comes it had firmed up the...