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I would avoid Balfours for the time being until they start to win more contracts. People are being let go every week at the moment due to the lack of current projects.

I was unfortunate enough to be on the 14:35 Kings Cross to Leeds. We arrived at Peterborough around 15:30 and stood on the Down Fast with the 14:30 KGX-Newcastle stood in platform 4. The Newcastle service (now 1G21 17:00 Peterborough-Newcastle) promptly failed on the Down Fast shortly after...

The 14:48 ex London is full and standing with First Class declassified.

Travelled on the 18:03 Skipton service yesterday from Kings Cross. First time Ive sampled the new 'Evening Meal' offering. No meet and greet and didnt see any member of staff at all until after departure. Drinks trolley passed through shortly after departure from Kings Cross, and food orders...

New crossovers have been installed and wired the other weekend just north of St Pancras Low Level Station to allow trains to turn back. The main benefit will be for trains arriving from the north when the 'core' route towards Farringdon is under possession so trains can terminate at St Pancras...

At the weekend, the blockade included Kentish Town Junction to St Pancras Low Level as the newly installed crossovers at St Pancras were being wired which also involved a test train as part of the testing and commissioning. OLE Section Insulators have been installed at the south end of St...

It started when 1D86 was wrongly routed into P3 vice P2, and therefore 1D89 was routed into P1 vice P3. Incoming driver refused to do the shunt moves required to free up P3 for FCC services. Therefore the use of FCC 4-car unit on the shuttle to Kentish Town which was the best plan possible given...

The dire state of affairs is that at the weekend, it was more cost effective for Balfours to fly in a OLE Supervisor, Engineer and Linesmen from Romania and put them in hotels in to cover OLE works on the MML than to use UK staff!

EC website now saying the 21:10 Lincoln-Leeds (due 22:45) is cancelled

1A18 08:40 Leeds - Kings Cross has brought the wires down all on 4 roads at Little Bytham. Thunderbird already attached and will drag set, leaving the 91 behind until the pan can be secured.

The problem as mentioned was a unit fault on 1W95 (377510/377518) and noy any electrical supply issues. This caused electrical section 602 to trip which is the Down Moorgate between Farringdon and Kentish Town. Once both pantographs had been lowered, the ECO was able to reset section 602 to...

This will explain why the 0651 ex Bradford terminated at Doncaster this morning with all passengers forced to wait for the delayed ex Sunderland service so the unit (114) could return to Bradford ECS to form the 1022 departure. Lots of unhappy passengers who have been told they can't claim...

Video tape had been thrown off a bridge between Thackley Tunnel and Apperley Junction and became entangled in the OLE, thus an emergency isolation was required in order to remove the tape.

Due to the lack of estimate of time that the problems would be rectified, at around 1745 EC decided to basically cancel all further trains going north. 1D40 and 1D41 were both terminated at Peterborough and returned to Bounds Green ECS. Stock at Kings Cross were sent ECS to Bounds Green to...

The problems today was caused by the 1336 Kings Cross-Leeds hitting a person near Lindfells Crossing at Sandy. I was on 1D76 14:20 GC to Bradford which was held at Kings Cross until 1555 and was the first departure north after the 14:00 EC service. The 14:10, 14:30, 14:35 etc services were all...

I worked in a call centre for BT for 3years and managed to get a job with one of the big contractors, mostly down to my volunteer experience at heritage railways. Unfortunately the likes of Balfours are going through mass redundancy procedures at the moment and employing more agency staff from...

Same message here when I logged in last night. It would have been nice to have received an email alert informing the change of status though.

I applied but not received any emails and job application status hasn't changed on website

The two vacancys listed as Ely are: 447330 - Harling Road 447329 - Eccles Road

Thanks for the reply Daz. The last time I got shortlisted for interview, there was only 2 of us out of 20 who were external. But it was only about 4 weeks gap from submitting application to attending interview. I see Grade 3 Greenford vacancy is now listed, but as usual is also on the...