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There's been rumours that the old branch to Cwm Colliery Beddau will be opened for passenger services at some point.....?

That's a very small amount of applicants for drivers jobs.

Valley's crews work the VOG to Barry Town before branching off to Barry Island. Barry Town to Bridgend are Mainline.

I don't think its practical to post the entire link on here! I think drivers start as early as 02:30 if starting from shed and as late as 17:00, basically it's all hours with no real pattern. I wouldn't worry about it at this stage, get the job first, train for 9 months then start looking at the...

Very low amount for drivers vacancies, normally about that per vacancy. I think it's that low because it was not advertised for a specified time, only until they felt they had enough. Good news for the applicants!

We had the SCAAT on paper for the last intake.

If memory serves me right, it was a good 2-3 weeks shortlisting last time, so this is normal. Don't forget they'll have at least 1500 apps to sort through! By the way, one of the guards in the last school that you missed out on had applied before and failed at the interview so encouragement...

Good luck! We're due to 'Pass Out' from the current school next Friday.

I agree I'm afraid, I don't think these results would pass. If my memory serves me correctly, when I was practicing, I was getting between 1600-1700cells completed with between 2 and 9 ommitted and rarely any marked incorrectly. I don't know if this is a pass because we had a SCAAT on paper at...

Sorry, wasn't trying to rub it in, just updating the thread. :D

Started induction yesterday. Lots of info covering many aspects of the company and various jobs as there are quite a few different grades on the course. Conductor training starts next week.

Congratulations, good luck in the future!

Sorry to hear that as well, but I will reiterate what I said in an earlier post, I think you should get yourself home as, all things being equal between you and other candidates, any employer would opt for a local candidate. I've been led to believe that being more than 50 mins from the depot...

Why don't you get back to the UK? The competition for jobs is so great (I just went through a process which had 1100 apps for 6 vacancies!) that an address in Spain is probably not getting through the sift. Rent somewhere in the region you want to apply to, surely this would help with any...

I was doing 1600-1700 cells with 2-8 left out. I very rarely marked one incorrectly. I have no idea if this is good or not though?:-?