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Sorry to hear, I failed to meet benchmark a couple of months ago but there was nothing in the rejection email about waiting six months that I can remember, only that those scores would be used for anything else I applied for which seemed a bit daft to me as I would most likely fail to reach...
This could have a lot to do with the transfer of the Northern franchise from Arriva to the Dft/OOLR, there are a few threads relating to this, Northern Sheffield/Darlington trainee drivers if i remember correctly, plus, if the link works, this is on the Northern rail careers site...
I will be, I've had a good old think about it, and realised my application form and cv were nowhere near up to standard as I rushed to get the application in on time, and had not done the research I have done over the last three weeks. Example, the first group bourdon I did, I missed 26 groups...
https://uk.firstgroupcareers.com/vacancy/trainee-tram-driver-012504/12534/description/
Edit, Sorry, i hadnt spotted that someone has already posted this.
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