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It may have been up for a few hours before you saw it, then got taken down? This often happens to regulate applications. It may well be back up soon.

From my experience in interviewing (although not drivers), I’ve always had sight of the application packs for candidates. Recruitment should (in my opinion) just facilitate the assessments and interviews. With drivers it is probably a bit different in that there are far more applications to sift...

Yes, just go with the flow. The course is designed to cater for those with no prior operational railway knowledge.

The 6 months is just for SWR. As long as your psychometrics are current, fill your boots. Bear in mind psychometric assessments remain valid for between 1 and 5 years depending on TOC (usually 3 or 5 though). 1768858738 Sometimes it’s down to who was the best fit on the day. They may have...

I’d say it depends. This would be an offence of strict liability, meaning the prosecution only has to prove that it happened. Everything else is mitigation. The fact that a person has vomited, means that they have soiled the railway. It doesn’t have to be intentional. I’d like to think common...

It’s more than likely local instructions at play, as you say. For stations with no RA indicator, where I am I’d just crack on as long as the signal is clear.

I think they were just talking about a main aspect signal as far as contacting the signaller goes. Edit; I just saw the bit about the RA at the end so scrub that.

Some companies (southern being one), do the DMI before the MMI. There’s no set order it has to be done, just generally more logical to do all psychometrics before the DMI.

From my experience, there’s usually someone who is prepared to swap who doesn’t have kids, as it’s generally cheaper (and quieter!) to go away on holiday during term time. Re the shifts; No intention to come across patronising here, but there’s shifts, then there’s train crew shifts :D You...

Yes, assuming your pass their papersift. Although some companies insist on applicants retaking psychometric assessments, but these are few and far between.

unless your TOC/FOC has a local agreement in place, you’ll probably find it’s standard rostered/block leave. You’ll have it allocated generally as four blocks throughout the year (generally two weeks for summer). You’ll be able to swap with people or in to vacant blocks etc. blocks are usually...

No, they passed me as "fit to drive trains" but had a little moan about too much meat, to few vegetables and too much beer. I've never failed a medical, by subsequent ones, I meant just the other periodic medicals (once every three years until you're 50(?), then it goes to yearly). Also, you'll...

The people who train surf are generally just stupid teenagers who do so to look cool for their mates.

One to amend: SWR London Waterloo to Guildford via Cobham for Fratton drivers is no longer link dependent.

GWR are a bit hit and miss with medicals. When I started as a trainee my BMI was about 37 but I was losing weight at the time (they still gave me a target of weight to lose). They didn't seem bothered by this, though. on the two subsequent medicals I had with them since, they gave me a bit of a...

The psychometric assessment passes last between 1 and 5 years depending on TOC/FOC (It is 5 years at GWR). Most are 3 or 5 years though (I've never heard of anyone accepting results of less than 3 years only), but some companies have been known to get all applicants to redo the assessments...

You'll be put up in hotels for the duration of classroom based training and your induction training if your home depot is more than 90 mins away generally. 1763373318 They'll generally place people on courses in relation to depot/traction types etc. For example, they won't mix Reading trainees...

It's not always the wisest decision to pursue a career as a train driver solely based on salary, as we do have to sacrifice a lot for what we get paid. The salary is good, but the rostered leave, antisocial shifts and constant assessments are a drawback. Admittedly you'll be used to the...

Multi-Modal Interview It’s basically competency based. You’ll have to write down answers to a selected 5 or 6 questions, then you’ll be asked questions on the and “probed” by an interviewer. This forms part of the psychometric assessment process, and so is included in the “two lives” rule. I...

We generally learn all rules relevant to driving during initial rules training, but don’t delve in to the intricacies of the signallers’ duties in terms of their section of the rulebook. For example, we’d need to know what hand signals etc they need to display in any given circumstance,And what...