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Recent content by Thomas C

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    SWR guard training, what's involved?

    Depending on which depo your at It’s about 8-12 weeks at Basingstoke. You will get free travel to and from your nearest swr station. Then you do the route learning back at your depo once you’ve passed you exams at Basingstoke. There is then a two week ticketing course if you’re are a commercial...
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    Commercial Guard - New Year start!!

    Just been paid today the 27th then every 4 weeks from then apparently
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    Timescales

    I applied for a guard position on the 22nd Jan this year and will start training on Monday just to give you an idea
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    Commercial Guard Bournemouth

    Thank you for you for responding re parking etc Hotdog It was mentioned that I would possibly be starting training in September when I was told I’d passed the interview but this got moved to December. I found out in late August I know they are starting a lot of new routes from other...
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    Commercial Guard Bournemouth

    I’m a couple of months out from starting my training as a guard and will then be working out of Bournemouth when my training is completed I would be grateful if anyone could confirm the shift pattern for a guard at Bournemouth. I believe it to be 7-2-7-2-6-4. Is that right? Earliest starts...

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