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I was told in my interview it would be 7 days and it was bang on 7 days! The wait is the worst bit! Good luck.

Hi, I was successful about the same time as Cherry in November, I think for the same base - yet just before Christmas I was contacted with a start date and poor Cherry is still waiting. Hang on in there - I feel bad for you Cherry.

Good luck to those that started their training today, in particular to the guys & gals to be based at Blackburn! Hope you all had a fab first day. See you there in 2 weeks!

Good luck with your training Train1992 - please let me know how it went. I start mine in 2 weeks at Manchester for a Blackburn base.

I received mine through the post at the very last minute! I had to give 4 weeks notice at work and received the paperwork on the very day I had to give my notice in. PS Great info sportzbar - thank you for the post, I can live with those sorts of shifts! I currently start between 6.30-7.30...

As you are being so helpful sportzbar you are now gonna get hounded with questions! Could you please post an example roster pattern for Man Vic. Thank you!

Great info sportzbar - very useful to know thank you. I will be Blackburn based, eventually, but obviously the depot wont be ready until the end of the year so not 100% sure what they are doing with me until then!

I received the same for my start date on the 13th Feb, sent it all back first class recorded on Saturday which has still not been received so assuming Royal Mail have lost it all. Fabulous start! Spoke to HR who are going to send me another pack out.

Thanks for the info sportzbar! It sounds hardwork, but interesting and I really am looking forward to it. I'll report back after my first day and let the others know what to expect since it seems I am the first out of the 3 in the thread to start!

Ditto - I start on 13 Feb. It must be a huge training centre as they seem to be running courses every week.

Don't hand your notice in until you've had your medical then. I was asked if I could start on the 23 Jan (pending medical), but it meant handing my notice in before the medical and I wasn't too keen on doing that. Not that I was particularly worried about failing anything, but you just never...

The medical was pretty straight forward; height and weight were taken and BMI worked out, my BMI was higher than it should be, but she said it was nothing to affect the medical. I have recently read elsewhere on this forum about people having similar worries to you and it didn't affect their...

I had my interview in November, and fortunately was successful and start 13 Feb! When they sent me an email inviting me for interview they set a task to be carried out before the big day. I don't know if it is always the same task, but mine was to visit a Northern station, perhaps get on a...

Yes, that's what I meant - think most training is done at the same place at the Training Centre near Piccadilly, so guess I'll be seeing some of you there.

Hi, just wondering if anyone has heard anything yet about a start date for Blackburn? I went for my medical last week, passed and have been told I will be on the 13th Feb course. I was offered 23rd Jan, but this didn't give me enough time to hand my notice in at work. Anyone with me on the...

They mentioned Victoria to me and whether I'd be happy to be based there until Blackburn was ready, so maybe we will get an earlier start date. And no job is a bed of roses, I'm under no illusion that this will be - but after 14 years in my current job I am really looking forward to a change...

Hi I'm new to the forum - is this a private message haha??!!!

Sorry to read that Metcalfe, something will come up for you I'm sure - all the best in what ever it is you end up doing (and don't forget you can reapply in 6 months!). Think you can ask for feedback at Northern too which may be useful if you do apply again. --- old post above --- --- new post...

Hi Tgh75 and congratulations to you on your new job! I've had exactly the same email as you, that I'm on hold - they will be in touch early next year as they're still finalising positions etc etc and they "hope" there will be enough positions for the number of successful candidates. I'm trying...