Recent content by Owen Morris

There's loads between Peterborough and Ely and you notice the rough riding even at the restricted speed

Started in the adjacent barley field and then spread very quickly to the railway embankment and has completely torched the signalling cables. The damage is reportedly significant so won't be a quick fix and they haven't been able to start yet because they're still trying to dampen the area to...

It's a 4 day week with a long weekend every 3rd weekend and Sundays are classed as outside the week and are completely voluntary so if you don't want to work any Sundays at all or work basically all of them it's entirely your choice

No extra payment for bank holidays and Sunday booking on payment is currently £36.01.

XC Senior Conductors is flat hourly rate at minimum 9 hours 15 minutes for RDW Monday to Saturday with Sundays being 1.55x pay at minimum 5 hours with a booking on fee on top of that

That's correct so it's reading dials to find the correct order of the fault finding (on that test you are allowed to keep the notes you make before starting which I found massively helped me remember the correct sequence to solve it to get the answer).

Any payslip that has it on is fine and a few people in my group showed their NI number through the HMRC app and the administrator was happy to accept it via that way as well.

When I sat stage 1 a few weeks ago (which thankfully I passed), it was just over 2 hours in total including a short break. I'd imagine yours would be in a similar order so started with the group bourdon test. Then it was TRP part 1 where you had 5 minutes to read an extract then it and any notes...

The group bourdon is a mixture of speed and accuracy in all honesty. When I sat stage 1 which I passed, I reckon I got through about 9 completed lines per sheet and that was enough to pass that particular test with basically no errors. With regards to other stuff, the practice material that...

Sat stage 1 OPC for West Midlands a couple of weeks ago myself and was confirmed on the day by the test administrator that it is a very recent removal by the TOC hence why they still included it in the practice material that was sent out!

I sat stage 1 myself a couple of weeks ago and they said to us on the day that the Driver Fault Finding Test has now been taken out of the testing so I wouldn't worry about learning how that test works if I was you.