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I've applied for the Maintainer Engineer role late last year. I wanted to know if anyone knew about their response times or what their recruitment process involves? There vacancies have no expiry date. They have no direct contact for recruitment apart from an email address I've got from the...

Jesus christ, that's completely insane. Its like a domino effect. Thats a long time to commit to weekends. To keep you afloat mentally just remember you have a dream job millions will die for, gotta hang in there.

Wow, what a joke. I recently applied for the Train maintainer role with TFL couple weeks ago. Im going to assume that role will be put on hold as well.

Forgive my lack of knowledge here. How does automated compare to normal train driving?

Good luck, one day I’d love to drive on HS2. Currently applying for trainee roles so my journey hasn’t even begun yet :(

You sound clued up, do you work on OLE? I wonder if it’s a department worth applying to. I’ve been on NWR since 2015 (Pway 2 years and S&T almost a year now)

This is something I considered early in my working life but didn’t follow through when I discovered the price for training. Really starting to give it ago if I know the work is out there. Sounds like something good to do on a along side a main job?

Form C* Good job getting the opportunity to work on Overhead lines. That’s A department I wouldn’t mind going to (been on pway 3 years and S+T almost one year now) From my experience with NWR operative interviews you’ll be asked basic scenario based questions which can be thought of on the...

If you pass all the stages of a trainee train driver assessment apart from the DMI and MMI then go to apply for another TOC, do you skip all the stages and go straight through to the DMI & MMI for the duration your results are held for?

Interesting, obviously the most serious SOL a driver could have is a SPAD I’m assuming. What are the most common SOLs do you know drivers have? And 24 weeks notice is crazy. What 357 said is probably the most efficient way to escape.

24 weeks notice is a bloody long time, is that the same amount of notice time with other TOCs? And what do you mean by SOL?

Nope, I didn’t recognise an accent.

I was on a Thameslink service to Bedford, the driver made an announcement regarding the inter changes passengers can make at London Bridge and then repeated the message in French? And it wasn’t a recorded voice. Are drivers expected to know French now?

That means they’re preparing you for an interview, can sometimes take a while

What is considered missing a station? Stopping too far from the platform or just completely driving it pass the station at line speed? Feel bad for your mate, I do feel VT is probably one of the most difficult TOC’s to become a driver for.

Jesus, how can you be so pessimistic. Also just because train driving is boring to you doesn’t mean it will to everyone else.

That’s good to know then, what about my location? ‘60 minutes of the job location based on normal traffic conditions I’m in the same position. I am definitely outside the 60 minute rule during rush hour so I’m going to have to skip applying to this this vacancy

I would apply for this but I don’t think I should as my nearest GWT station from where I live is Paddington. It would take me 55 minutes minimum to get to and from there. I think my location would put me at an disadvantage regardless of how well I would do in the application process plus...

Night rate is an extra 30% on top of your hourly wage, Sunday nights are 40%. If you work nights full time then for whatever reason went to days, you’ll notice a big difference in your pay

Operative here. If you’ve been offered the job don’t worry about the inconsistent statuses on the job updates, nothing to worry about.