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    Trainee Train Drivers - Waterloo (14.01.20)

    https://uk.firstgroupcareers.com/vacancy/trainee-train-driver-waterloo-012275/12305/description/ Good luck
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    Southeastern High speed train driver, Faversham, Ashford & Ramsgate

    How can you answer specific questions about being a train driver for SE? You’re a bus driver up north?!
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    Southeastern High speed train driver, Faversham, Ashford & Ramsgate

    1. You’re a bus driver trying to give advice to qualified train drivers and you have been ill informed, make assumptions or quite frankly make stuff up. 2. Going by your previous message history throughout all threads, there’s a trend of ‘I heard that’ or ‘someone I know said’
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    Southeastern High speed train driver, Faversham, Ashford & Ramsgate

    Advice to drivers from notadriver. I’m afraid some of your posts are ill informed. Keep jealousy out of it.
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    Southeastern High speed train driver, Faversham, Ashford & Ramsgate

    This is spot on
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    LNER Qualified Driver Kings Cross

    I thought this might be the case. DB Cargo recruited a number of former On Track Plant staff and all required full rules, traction and hours as trainee drivers
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    LNER Qualified Driver Kings Cross

    Perhaps they did, but T&W is a light rail/metro system.
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    LNER Qualified Driver Kings Cross

    I interpret metro as Tram, LUL and Tyne and Wear Metro. Any mainline qualified driver is suitable for this position.
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    Using staff passes on other toc`s

    My opinion is that if you get priv, and have an opportunity to buy a ticket at a manned ticket office, then use it. If revenue protection are on board or at the other end manning barriers then what excuse do we have? We work on te railway, are paid by the railway and know the score. Having...
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    Oyster Card Priv Discount

    For non safeguarded?
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    Trainee driver roles DB Cargo Perterlee and Dollands Moor

    Most likely because the company can have some of the training costs covered by the government
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    Willesden Junction Depot

    spot on
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    Qualified driver changing TOC’s - Recruitment process

    Every company is different. Crosscountry used to want 3 or 5 years experience but now, for example, it’s only 18 months
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    Junior Driver - DB Cargo - Disillusioned..

    That is not true
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    Can Freight drivers apply to be passenger drivers?

    You’re a qualified driver, so you won’t be at a disadvantage. Your safety of the line record and how well you interview are the key factors.
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    Train Maintainer London Underground Vacancy

    Go for it!
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    Junior Driver - DB Cargo - Disillusioned..

    DB have never been in such a worst state. Sure, they needed to make cuts but they went too deep and haven’t recovered. Morale is rock bottom, the pay rise offer is paltry and the Final Salary Pension is going. Anyone would be deluded to think that DB are heading in the right direction. For any...
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    Junior Driver - DB Cargo - Disillusioned..

    DB are the laughing stock of the rail industry. Drivers are still actively leaving and they’re in a real pickle. Plus their final salary pension for new starters is being done away with
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    Mess rooms from hell , places you like.

    DB Cargo messroom is alright. SWR prison cell is bleak
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    Early retirement

    So it’s GWR and Arriva companies then?

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