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Doe Isn't CARE still whole career average and RPS takes the best 3 years from your last 10 years?

Before IST it can be useful to know the NATO phonetic alphabet and the NWR non technical skills. Everything else is best learnt at sig school from the trainers.

Thank you very much! I did send an email to payroll a few years ago suggesting maybe they could publish a list of all the pay categories and what they mean or have an index on the payslip itself but they never responded either way.

Do you know what "ALA Pay" is? I only get it on payslips where I have taken A/L during the period.

It's hard to know without knowing the specifics of the box and your role (resident/relief). The very minimum a grade 2 signaller can get working zero nights, zero Sundays and zero RDW is £33,695 after the pay rise. If you have rostered Sundays as a resident you can also work that out, if it's...

A military or blue light background is looked upon very favourably in my experience. Recruitment varies by region, some might be for a specific location and others are for a broader area if there are multiple vacancies that need filling. Don't be put off applying for a lower grade and then...

There are 3 circumstances you will be tested for D&A. 1. Medicals 2. After operational incidents that go wrong 3. Random

They will try to get you on the course closest to you and the box location, saves time, money and is much easier for the LOM to visit (if they still do that these days?) but if that course is already booked you can be put on a course anywhere in the country.

Others have said this but I'll just reiterate not to really do this. The "hard" part of being a signaller isn't actually signalling the trains, it's knowing what to do and how to work in degraded working and operational incidents, which really is the bread and butter of what you'll learn in...

HS2 is going to get priority on the WCMLN, the government (of any colour) is going to have to, to save face.

As others have said a failure to stop is rare, and a SPAD is much more serious, both in terms of disciplinary action and safety. I was on a failure to stop last year, LNW driver went right through Watford Junction and the next stop was Hemel! There were no more southbound trains, luckily for...

More grand plans, how many OAR's have applied for West Coast Mainline routes now? They'd be better seeing what Euston and the route is looking like after Phase 1 of HS2 opens.

100%. Friday night and Saturday take off, relax, go out, spend time with the family. Sunday spend a couple hours reading through or re writing your notes from the previous week, highlight anything you are not sure on and talk to the trainer about them Monday.

Just replying to the couple of recent topics 1. Just don't drink the day before a shift or medical, unless you have some medical problem this is all you need to do. No need to be super cautious, I think the limit is like 1/3rd of the driving limit, so if you accidentally eat a liquor chocolate...

Yes they go via the North London Line to Wembley Intercity Depot which is run by Alstom. It's where the Sleepers and Pendos go. They have a wheel lathe the other side of the Watford DC line, you can sometimes see the trains in there from the Bakerloo/Overground.

Just to go back to the leave stuff. Do you get the extra 2 days on your anniversary of employment or is it in the next calender year? Mine is coming up...

Impossible now that we get the holiday pay supplement. Even if a box was closed every night and every Sunday.

Sorry I didn't realise how complicated I made that sound. I met a fellow signaller whilst we were traveling on the bakerloo line one morning (me to work and him going home). He said he worked at New Cross Gate, and I asked him was it the same when TfL owned the line and it was the ELL on the...

Am I right in thinking the signal box is still owned by TfL, but now run by NWR? Met a fellow signaller who worked there on the the Bakerloo line a couple years ago now and I think that's what he told me.

Reliefs don't get rostered Sundays remember and the "life" of a relief isn't for everyone. Expect to do more nights than days, getting a call a day before a rostered spare to cover a sick day, residents seeing you are spare when the roster is published on a Friday or Saturday and a quick call to...