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I'm the opposite, I've always kept what I needed minimal and I feel people over complicate it. I've been a guard for 5 years, I keep a pen in my shirt pocket with my diagram. I keep a bag of change in my back pocket, my keys in my right pocket and my phone in my left and I don't tend to ever run...

My work phone is EE and my personal O2. Work phone tends to work better when in the middle of nowhere. I'm actually with Virgin on my personal phone which used to use EE and it was great, when they partnered with O2 it went downhill so definitely looking at switching back to a network that uses EE.

It's hard to say regarding driving, years ago I think it was heavily beneficial to be a guard and progress to a driver. These days you get people from all walks of life progressing into driver positions. I think being a guard gives you a very good insight into the role and gives you a lot to...

Believe they've just agreed a payrise in that region. In today's climate that's great for a conductor.

I've never started externally into the role however I assume all I missed was an induction. At one TOC it was a general introduction to the job followed by PTS training and a depot walkaround. Then about 3 weeks of rules and training for emergencies etc and route learning. A couple of weeks on...

Yeah they only promote to drivers internally. They did a big assessment drive about 2 years ago, they said all permanent guards could go for psychometrics, no interviews and if successful go into a pool for driving. The idea was to promote all permanent guards and let the fixed term guards go...