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Nice one! Out of interest, who are you starting for?

Well done nutty! I haven't had a phone call so now I'm all on edge!

Well, had my driver manager interview today and seemed to go alright, however you never can tell! Will find out next week apparently. Going to be a looooong week!! Course starts 8th April so the sooner I know so I can find a bedsit and put my notice in at work!

Just had my interview with the Driver Managers for FGW and one of the things they made clear to me was it would be written into my contract that I would live no longer than 60 minutes away from Reading.

To echo what Nutty said, I was in just before him and my interview was also over an hour. If you've ever seen The Apprentice when they go for interviews, it's a similar feeling and just as intense! Be thoroughly prepared with answers. If you search this forum for structured interview the...

Indeed, was probably about that when I did it. In my post above. I was referring to my training on the mainline. This would have been late 90s. I only have these forums to let me know what mainline training consists of these days!

When I went through my driver training originally, although the course is long, they did give us some holidays to take, however we were told when to take them rather than being able to choose, for example between the traction training module and commencing route learning. We did have one lad...

Different companies will have different ways of doing things. Usually though, the training is quite intensive and they won't like you missing the training schedule. Having said that, you could always contact HR and ask them.

Last time I had a signaller interview (in 2008) they asked basically the same sort of questions I was asked at my driver competency interview, for example describe a time you've worked alone and a time you've dealt with emergencies that type of thing. The only question which I struggled with...

Nice one, Stone Cold! It is indeed early April for the next course to start. I've just passed stage 2 and have my managers interview next week! Will have to get some literature from letting agents around Reading for bedsits to show I'm serious about relocating as I think that will be my...

Thanks! My assessment is actually tomorrow in Newport, just travelling today from Newcastle! If I fail this time, that's both my chances gone! I've passed the psychometrics several timesn however I've also failed once so if I fail again that'll be that! However I'm a positive person so I'll...

FGW Human Resources are incredibly slow! Possibly just due to the amount of applications they get for each vacancy. When I first applied for trainee driver, it was quite a while before I was invited for assessment then another 4 months before I heard back inviting me to the second stage (I'm...

Several years ago I passed all psychometrics etc for Scotrail only to fail at the manager interview due to the fact I couldn't show him proof I'd been actively looking at accommodation in the area.

If you had a copy of the "Glop" passage, that would surely be cheating? There are tools available for practising for the dots test and the co-ordination test which are excellent but don't actually give you the answers which the Glop passage would! The whole idea of the Glop passage is to...

I sat all of the other paper tests, ie Trainability for Rules and Procedures (listening to a fictional section of the rule book about the application of "Glop" then answering questions about it.) This then leads on to the second part of the TRP which consists of groups of dials and having to...

Hi Iceman, No mate, no mechanical tests for Great Western. I did all the other paper-based tests but was quite surprised I didn't have to do mechanical!

Well, after patiently waiting since 4th October last year, I have finally had a call from FGW this afternoon to invite me for the part 2 assessment down in Newport! Now urgently trying to arrange time off my current job to travel down on the Tuesday for assessment on Wednesday! I'd just...

Well, despite having previous experience and passing the initial online test, I had an email from Northern today saying they weren't progressing my application any further. I can only assume it's due to me not living within the required distance from Leeds.

There's a London branch of Sunderland fans?! Not that many go from Wearside so fair play to you for travelling all the way up to watch them!

Exactly the same here mate. Did stage one on October 4th, still haven't heard anything but in the meantime I've also passed the online assessment with Northern for Leeds. I did state on the application that I was still awaiting results so maybe Northern will be able to get the information...