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I was on the September course. What is you do at the moment?

Are you down for Worcester by any chance?

Unless you work for an open access toc or an foc then the company going bust would have no baring on you or your job. The government operator of last resort would be put in place to keep everything running until they find another franchise to run it or the government takes it back into state...

Forgot to say that’s based on someone getting the full 40 years in. If you do less I believe the amount taken off for your state pension entitlement becomes less. But as I said best getting professional opinion/explanation as I could be completely wrong

I believe the state off set works as follows. Your salary, minus your state pension entitlement, then devide by 60, then times by your years service. 60k(basic salary) - 7k(yearly state pension) =53k, 53k / 60 = £883, £883 x 40 = 35k That’s a very rough and rounded up working out though using...

Someone is telling you porkie pies

I’m not bashing the union at all. I’m saying that at some point it’s got to go back regardless and that at some point I’ve got to go back or I won’t have a job as I’m sure they won’t want to pay me to be at home forever. My wages change at preset/agreed dates anyway, I’ve been on newly qualified...

I’m sure ready to go back to work. Had enough of sitting around now. The measures were needed but at some point it’s got to go back to normal, we can’t all sit at home forever. Things like car driving lessons are back up and running now. So far I’ve been given a ‘you might’ be called back in by...

They were happy with your SJT so now your through to ‘the paper sift’. Now they will go through all the applications by hand of the people that got past the SJT and choose who they want to send for testing, or interview if you already have test results. A lot of applications to get through so...

This thread is very confusing, everyone seems to be referring to the WMT recruitment drive but the OP said GWR and they also have depot at Worcester.

Depends where they can get you booked in. Back when I did mine I had to go to central London for it even though the TOC and my depot are based in the Midlands

Everything was put on hold a few days after the last post, nothing has restarted yet. Big backlog now with those waiting for classroom training and us waiting to go back handling with instructors

Yer best thing you can do is just carry on with your life in between the different application stages.

Yer in our weekly MD update he said it’s over 6000 applications this time. I’m sure someone told me it was around 5000 last year but I couldn’t say for definite on that one.

It has to be quite a harsh cut at this stage. The next stage is HR reading through your CV/application in person and I don’t know about you guys but if I was a HR department I sure wouldn’t want to have thousands of applicants to read through.

Some will put you in a hotel, some will expect you to make use of your newly acquired free train travel

It’s before the sift. Or at least it was when I went through the process last year

Mate they will definitely try to get you back through and onto course as quick as they can. They are taking applications for next year so need the current applications through as soon as safe to do so. After so long most places do the interview again. Is mainly to make sure nothing has changed...

I’ve noticed a few over the years before I applied but I couldn’t say for sure how regular they take on. There are 11 of us at the handling stage waiting to get back to work now at Worcester and another course that was due to start in June before the virus suspended it. They also just advertised...

Was meant to quote your other message about the tax rates.