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It’s what the ‘whistle board’ replaced. Old school!

Not particularly, what’s your local area and I’m sure either myself/someone else could chip in?

Depending where you live, look at TOCS/FOCS which have depots within an hour of your home. Once you’ve found these (look on master thread for depots on the companies which operate locally) constantly look at this website as jobs get posted fairly quickly, and sign up for notifications on the...

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Don’t panic too much. If you gave all the information they needed then I’m sure you did fine. I’ve had interviews for TOCS which were under an hour and I was successful, don’t stress :smile:

How did it go?

Depends on when the course falls, to try and ease your AL allowance when you arrive to depot they may include a weeks AL between rules and traction, but it really depends - hopefully all set out on your joining instructions when you receive the email. Can’t answer with regards to functional...

One week of ‘onboarding’ followed by 10 weeks of rules for SE, up to 17 days traction (Electrostar and Networkers) if electrostar only then it’s 10 (depot dependant)+707’s after dependant on depot. After that you may have to do your functional skills for your apprenticeship (maths or...

And what about if you’re downloaded? It will cause questions about your driving (this is obviously dependant on the reason of a stop short anyway..) Regardless of my personal opinion on whether or not it’s an incident or not, I’ve always been instructed to report everything.

Well officially it’s car stop mark but everyone (drivers, management, most emails) will call it stop car mark. I’ve only ever called it SCM as that’s what it was introduced to me as, also IMO rolls off the tongue better 8-)

And at my TOC it’s stop car mark :D

This all depends what the signal is showing at the end of the platform (if applicable). Red at the end, report yourself and ask permission to move to correct place. Green at the end, move up to correct place then report yourself. Regardless if it’s a stop short no door release - you should...

Hi M. Congratulations for getting all the way through! I personally heard back 2 days after my DMI but I know people who work for the same TOC heard back after a few weeks so I really wonder how it works behind the scenes. With regards to your age, don’t let yourself think that would be a...

They’re definitely more organised in real life, more in rows and columns which are easier for your eye to look at than the picture you linked to here.

Which part?