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I am not a single-location relief but that job sounds to me like a recipe for tons of spare shifts sat around at home if it’s already got 4 people there. Unless somebody goes off long-term sick. Can’t think there will be an abundance of overtime but you never know. If one or more of the...

Oh, just for the main 7, there isn’t a job in the world I want enough to try and think of 52 unique examples for! That’s just what I do for interviews, it’s not any sort of policy or anything.

Nice one! Set up your computer on a pile of books or something so you’re not looking down at the screen is always a good one for online interviews. I would recommend memorising two examples for each non-technical skill in the STAR format. If they then need to press you on something then...

Probably best to post which area you are in and see if someone on here can accommodate it or put you in touch with the local LOM. I wouldn’t recommend turning up at any signalling location unannounced, though you might get lucky. I’ve had prospective people in the box to show them the job...

I can’t see a way in which you could use GR204 at all in that first example. How would you even get it to show a proceed aspect if the crossover is reversed beyond it? Also if a driver comes along and sees the signal for another line is off and the points are set for him to cross over to that...

Congratulations on getting the job! Let’s take the worst case scenario earnings-wise: say you finish training and then end up in a grade 2 box. This box works Monday to Saturday, daytime only and you do absolutely no overtime. So you won’t be picking up any night shift premium (10% per...

Depends where you live really I think. You can’t move for a ex-military down my line so you’ll likely not have too many difficulties when it crops up - for the last year or so we’ve been recruiting externally almost every other month it feels like.

I prepared two STAR examples per NTS in case they pressed me for another example on any of them. What I didn’t prepare for and should have was ‘negative’ examples. I got asked to talk about a time I made a mistake at work and had to rectify it, and also about a time I fell out with a colleague...

Similarly, using Signalmaps or some other live map site to determine which platform your train is sitting at when at Kings X before they announce it on the departure board. You can just saunter through to the platform and get on as soon as the doors open so you can get a seat.

If they have started doing a proper induction day that will be a welcome change. I was plonked in the corner of a spare office in the PSB on my first day before being handed a few random ends of cast-off PPE and then doing some haphazard e-learning. 4 years later I still have no ID card, or...

Generally I've found that if I think it’s all gone alright then it’s been a good interview. As long as the interviewers were’t having to drag the answers out of you and you feel you got your knowledge across then that’s all you can ask for really. Hope it’s a positive result for you! They...

Ah yes, should have mentioned that the RDRs have a load of spare shifts programmed. Also, a four day long weekend every single week? What a dream!

I can’t speak for every line, but on our line the GPRs get 18% flex premium, have no booked Sundays and don’t know what location or shift they are working the following week, just what days they are working. The RDRs get 12% premium, have no booked weekends or night shifts and know exactly...

OK, I was exaggerating for effect. Obviously there are a lot of railway workers who were not emergency services or armed forces.

Good luck finding anyone on the railway who wasn’t once a firefighter, police officer, prison officer, soldier, sailor or airman. I sometimes think that the railway is just a grand scheme to keep retired emergency services and military personnel from getting too bored.

Somebody recommended to me on here to read L T C Rolt’s book “Red for Danger” before going on IST and I really enjoyed it. It doesn’t prepare you in any meaningful way but it’s just a highly readable account of lots of railway accidents and what caused them. Lots of Absolute Block disasters if...

Melton is used as a central location for Frisby, Melton, Whissendine, Ashwell, Langham, Oakham and Manton boxes so it will be one of those depending on where the vacancies are when you’re in signalling school.

Hi both, I work some of the boxes on the Melton line, feel free to PM if you need any info - or would fancy coming in to see the job one shift. Cheers.

Oh mate, sorry to hear about this. Have you been offered another position?

Mate I got myself so worked up about blood pressure before my medical I got my wife to stop putting salt in food 2 weeks before, I stopped all alcohol and caffeine, I just went really over the top about anything blood pressure related. When I finally went into the medical he told me that if my...