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Hi Congrats on getting to the interviews! Mine was a pretty standard interview to be honest. The two blokes were very nice and tried their best to put me at ease. Very general questions such as can you give me an example when you gave excellent customer service or made important decisions...

I applied for Manchester, presuming it would be Piccadilly for TPE as they don't go from Victoria. I'll keep trying don't worry! I've done so much research into it in the last 6 months or so that I'm determined to get in. :D And as I've now attended (and screwed up!) one interview already I'll...

Wow! I wonder what the hell is going on with their recruitment at the moment! I'm still waiting for news after Mondays interview at Lime Street - I hope I don't get an email similar to Sunday_mornin's - although an message like yours, Silv, wouldn't be a bad thing at all! EDIT - just heard...

No knowledge to share personally but just wanted to say good luck with your application! I was pondering whether to apply as Newton Heath would be very handy for me but in the end I didn't leave enough time to complete a good application.

Oh no, that is so disappointing for you. Fingers crossed they have more vacancies this year.

I can agree that the TPE application site is nowhere as user friendly as the Northern site but I have to say I didn't think it was too bad. I don't like the fact you cannot access the answers you have the four questions though. Thankfully I have kept them in Word as I copied and pasted so I can...

Mmm, well I am back from my trip to Lime Street. It was a standard interview but I don't think I did terribly well to be honest. I know for definite I could have done so much better on at least two questions. I just hope I have done enough to get through to the assessments which I'm actually...

Hi If you went for the same Blackpool vacancy I was looking at I think there was about a week between the Liverpool and Blackpool closing dates so fingers crossed you get an email soon! I was just at the stage of submitting for Blackpool when the Liverpool positions came up and I decided...

Hi Dave After lots of researching on t'internet and on previous threads in this forum I've now discovered that my interview on Monday will be the standard interview. If I do ok there, then I'll be invited to the assessment day. I did plan to ring Northern but could not find a phone number for...

You're right, I'd rather ask them and risk sounding daft instead of having no idea what's in store. Interview is at Lime St.

Monday 16th so at least have a week or so to prepare. I'm a bit confused though, reading on here it seems people have attended assessment days, had structured interviews, etc, and I read that Northern provide practice papers for the assessment days. Is this true? Maybe I'll just be having an...

Though I will shine up my shoes, good advice! I'm just going for the standard interview outfit - shift dress, maybe suit jacket over with tights and shiny shiny shoes! Thanks for the congrats, it's actually missy rather than sonny!

It was for Liverpool Lime Street. To be honest not much information was given in the email, just the location and what time to report. Eeek!

Hi everybody! I got an email yesterday from Northern inviting me for an interview for a trainee driver position I applied for back in May. Obviously thrilled to bits but I'm getting pretty nervous now! The email doesn't state anything about tests bur I'm guessing from what I've read on here I...

I've just got my email through regarding the online assessment. :D Is it the Bourdon thing? I'd quite like to do a few more practice sessions and don't want to log onto the assessment and have to do the test there and then.