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    A career as a train driver

    As with all railway recruitment, be prepared to hurry up and wait
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    Depot to Mainline only in the future?

    Depot drivers yes, Manos no. They are separate grades
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    Network Delivery Manager - Network Rail

    Would make sense if the base pay wasn't less than a TRC or IC Also didn't think RCMs would be able to do their role remotely 40% of the time, as per the advert
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    Northern - Trainee Train Driver - Recruitment Discussion

    I dont have a start date. I was replying to the question about assessments
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    Northern - Trainee Train Driver - Recruitment Discussion

    I got a call this morning, been waiting about 3 weeks
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    Northern - Trainee Train Driver - Recruitment Discussion

    I've been waiting 2 weeks...
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    Northern - Trainee Train Driver - Recruitment Discussion

    Has anyone else who got the "we will call you to discuss next steps" email with their application showing "invite to psychometric assessment" not had a call yet?
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    Depot to Mainline only in the future?

    GWR have started doing it in locations where they have depot drivers. But as I said upthread, Great Eastern/One/NXEA/GA did it this way for years on the GE side of things.
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    Depot to Mainline only in the future?

    They always used to do this on the GE side, then moved away from it. So looks like they're back to it
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    A career as a signaller

    Why would anyone want to relocate to Port Talbot As a place, I mean. Nothing to do with the panel :D
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    DCR Groundstaff

    I frequently see posts from a guy who's DCR groundstaff on LinkedIn, and seems like he gets where water doesn't! London based, but he has been to pretty much every railhead that DCR use. Previous adverts have posted pay around the £38k + allowances mark.
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    Heavy Haul Mendip Trainee vacacies

    Yeah makes sense mate. If thats what they have told you then all is well
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    Heavy Haul Mendip Trainee vacacies

    Unfortunately I'm not sure tbh, I have never done enhanced tests so can't comment All I know is if you have passed, if you retake them and fail, you lose your initial pass
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    Heavy Haul Mendip Trainee vacacies

    Unfortunately, it poses the risk that you could lose your "pass" status and be removed

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