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I've just come across this video on youtube which suggests Greater Anglia will be accepting trainee driver applications from tomorrow, 2 May 2025. Nothing in writing on the TOC's own website yet.
Would be interested to know what sort of speeds people are getting; between Tonbridge and London Bridge (375 electrostars on SE mainline) I'm get between 1.5 and 2 Mb/s, up and downlinks.
Monthly season tickets are retailed on the basis of a "calendar month", but how is this defined; is there any industry standard algorithm in use?
Examples:
Start date: 15 Jan gives last valid date 14 Feb.
Start 31 Jan = end 28 Feb in non leap year, 29 in leap years.
Start 29 Feb in leap year...
I visited King's Cross yesterday, signed in at reception, watched the safety briefing and attempted to set up camera and tripod at the far end of the platforms, furthest from ticket barriers. Within minutes a member of NR staff (very politely) informed me that "tripods are banned in the...
Here's a screengrab of the relevant questions:
Note the scope of the two questions:
It seems to me that they are being pretty specific and sweeping in their "at any stage of the recruitment process" question and don't mean just the driver assessment - especially since this is the...
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