Recent content by TJ123

How did you get on?

Looks like a number of people were called forward for interviews for the August course.

It's looks like the April course for Edinburgh drivers have been filled, people have started to get rejection emails, with the next course for Edinburgh drivers potentially in August you could potentially still be in the running

Yeah I have heard there was a course for Edinburgh at the end of April, I also hear that there is a course for Edinburgh drivers in August as well, anyone for the August course?

An opportunity to join the Edinburgh team as an apprentice driver with LNER , closing date 18/01/2026 https://www.lnerjobs.co.uk/jobs/vacancy/apprentice-driver---edinburgh-3685-edinburgh-waverley-station/3703/description/

From a friend who works at LNER So to answer your question with regards to the tickets, you can get 50% off tickets for friends and family both std and 1st you have an allocation of 200 tickets (singles) per year, so if a friend wanted a return trip say Leeds to London that will be 2 tickets...

Interesting to see Preston readvertised for qualified drivers and instructors. Stirling must be more popular than we thought.

I missed out on this recruitment drive, anyone who works for Eurostar, do you think there might be another recruitment drive in the future? I ask because I've seen in the last few years Eurostar have recruited quite a bit and also saw a post on LinkedIn from one of their drivers that they...

Out of curiosity, did you apply for the customer driver role or the instructor role? Did they give any information about timings/start dates etc

How did the interview go? Has anyone else heard anything yet?

If you look at the apprentice driver salary it states once qualified the pay is at £68K. So the instructor pay i imagine will be probably around the £73K mark at a guess. With qualified driver positions becoming a little bit less common now (I know TOCs do still recruit for qualifieds but not...

For those qualified drivers who might be interested in something different Qualified Customer Train Driver https://careers.firstgroup.co.uk/jobs/qualified-customer-train-driver-preston-station-fishergate-preston-united-kingdom-london-stirling-stirlingshire Customer Driver Instructor...

The On Train Skills & Competency Manager at LNER in a nutshell deal with the competency of the train managers and onboard staff. Like what most TOCS seem to be doing these days, old management roles now split into two, one manager that deals with the admin side per se and the other manager who...

https://www.lnerjobs.co.uk/jobs/vacancy/find/results/

Stansted Express I believe is driven by all the west drivers so Cambridge, Bishop's Stortford and Liverpool Street (WA)