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Don’t suppose anyone has a spare ticket or spare child for today? I can get a last minute exhibitors pass for me but would love to take the little one for a bit too.

The salary isn’t lower, nothing has changed there - you may have seen adverts for west based conductors that are slightly higher (just under £1000 more). East and west have different t&c’s which is the reason for this. The training time also hasn’t changed, as you have applied for the North...

A driver gets 64% in an assessment and him eventually going is harsh? There are set processes, he will have been rebriefed and reassessed, if he still can’t meet the standard what do you think they should do? If it’s the online type of assessment I think it is it’s a shocking score and he...

All sorts - Bar/Retail, call centre, then went into training. Fancied a change and the railway always appealed to me as I love train travel. Started as a conductor and now work training new conductors. Has its challenges and we are very busy but love my job.

14th of July and 11th of august are next paydays from July onwards. The 14th of July pay will be inclusive of anything worked up to the 8th of July.

Great post - I applied for a Conductor position with FTPE and passed everything bar one MMI question - I was totally gutted and kind of walked away from it all for a bit and just thought it wasn't for me. I ended up applying to Northern as a conductor a year later, was successful and am...

Training hours are 9-4pm, but this can vary depending on what is being covered and when you get out and about covering traction etc.

Thanks for getting back to me. Yeah they applied then too - fingers crossed they've not been screened out and hear back soon. Hope you get news back soon :)

Hope the day went well - can I be nosey and ask when you applied for the role? My friends applied and the application just says "on file"...they've done a set of online assessments and were also sent the personality ones to do. Many thanks

I'm surprised this was advertised externally at all - the last 2 Sheffield driver advertised vacancies have only been internal (over the last 3/4 months). They must have just fallen short on internal applications and needed a few more hence such a tight time frame over Xmas day.

I'm guessing it will go to top scores on interviews/assessments that's why they've waited to get this weeks assessments out the way. Saw a few smartly dressed nervous looking people milling around outside on Tuesday so they've definitly been doing assessments this week. I was in for my...

Sorry to hear it didn't work out for you Paul, hope you're feeling a lot better. Congratulations Scudz and Munster. I'm really looking forward to getting started on Monday now, nervous and excited :D

My understanding is that if the Tram/Train to Rotherham is successful they will look more closely into potentially rolling it out on that line. Not sure if it would mean additional track or just the sharing of that track. If hs2 is to be from Meadowhall end of town, there needs to be a way...

Look forward to seeing you then too Lee Best of luck for the 10th munster

Im starting my training on the 16th as well beagles_about - so will see you there :) munster732 - treat it like any other interview, do your research etc - read the job spec and think of the type of questions that will come up around the competencies they are looking for.