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I’m guessing as they hadn’t pressed the uncouple button it was still electronically coupled so had break release and power through the whole train when they tried to move
Anytime I’m having a bad day I’m just going to think of you. Sorry to laugh at your misfortune as it was obviously a really ****ty day
But seriously, thanks for sharing as it’s lightened up my day.
By the looks of things you’ll be starting before I get called back in lol, DM phoned the other day and reconfirmed that it’ll prob be June before I get back and in the seat.
Sorry I wasn’t being very clear with what I said. I meant in general you won’t be asked to go and cover WMR booked work for a few days somewhere if you’re LNWR or vice versa. As you say there are definitely jobs that have cross over work where you hand the train over to the other half of the...
You work out of your own depot only and sign the routes and traction for your depot. The two different brands don’t cross over.
There could well be exceptions to each of these I guess, but I’ve not heard of any.
Been having a bit of a read about the colour blind corrective glasses. Apparently they don’t work for everyone and for those that they do work for it is with varying success. Seems that it’s just not a consistent enough or good enough fix.
I’d imagine with advancing tech that in the end someone...
You could have answers, reminders or anything pinned to walls etc to help you if you did it from home. Has to be in person so can they can ensure it’s all done fairly.
To be fair until Covid you used to get called in for a uniform fitting before you started so we a bit more straightforward. But even then most of us had stuff missing from the uniform that you could be waiting a month or more to get hold of. As someone said above they are happy for you to wear...
I did everything with freightliner in 2018 and was put in the pool. I got a phone call today asking me to go to interview again in a few weeks time. I’ve have said to withdraw my application on 2 previous occasions that I was called about re interviewing as I’ve been in a drivers job for 16...
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At the moment Sunday’s are out side the working week and not committed which means if you don’t want to work your booked Sunday you don’t have to, but if you do work a Sunday it’s payed at time and a half.
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