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Training capacity is often a limiting factor. Firstly, there's the Rules and Traction courses, for that you need classroom space, simulators and Trainer/Assessors. The latter are usually from the driving grade and require training of their own. At a depot level, there's Driver Instructors...

The passenger accomodation seems to be much more affected than the driving cabs, I've never really noticed the problem in the cab itself.

Thanks mate, everything just feels like the next level up compared to suburban DOO at the previous place, miss a few of the characters but that's pretty much it. No worries, to be fair train driving is certainly one of the better careers out there, you wouldn't think it given the amount of...

Would recommend XC, I'm at the other end of the country but would second the very good culture and work content. Where I am the neighbouring TOCs seem to have a bit of a punishment culture regarding operational incidents etc. at least that's what the folk who work at those TOCs tell me. I know...

Thank you all for the detailed replies and sorry it's taken so long to reply myself, I've been snowed under the past few days. Unsurprisingly it seems there's a lot of things which we never get to know about in the depot messroom, I can't help but feel as though NR maintenance is massively...

I'm a train driver who has driven in a few different NR regions and the timescales within which things like TSRs/ESRs, signalling defects, points failures are fixed seem to vary massively. Are there big differences in funding/investment (adjusted for mileage) in each region or is it largely...

CrossCountry recruiting Qualified Drivers at Bristol and Bournemouth, three years productive driving needed in order to apply. Bristol -...

At this rate, I'd rather receive backpay in the next financial year to be honest, I'm ex-SE and the amount they owe me is relatively small, it'd keep things more straightforward tax-wise.

Fair play to the driver for being so open about the incident. I wish the railway had more of a "just culture" where errors such as his weren't punished and only violations were. I was speaking with some friends who are pilots and they were very surprised when I said the first thing recruitment...

The easiest way would probably be to put an email out asking for a mutual swap, that way you can avoid the accommodations process, your local reps should have an idea of how mutual swaps work at your depot. I go for permanent lates since I go to bed at the coldest, quietest part of the day and...

I'd suggest thinking about driving, I was diagnosed with autism in early childhood and got a lot of extra support with my school education, driving was my first job on the railway when I joined in my mid-twenties. After having a chat with the doctor about autism at my initial medical he seemed...

Fully agreed regarding unionisation in the aviation industry, BALPA don't appear anywhere near as strong as ASLEF and the endless supply of people with £100k of debt and an fATPL keeps conditions down. A few months back I was chatting with a widebody FO who was in the top half of seniority on...

Thank you for the further replies. I've had a look at the easyJet MPL though there does seem to have been training delays recently and with it being self-funded the airline doesn't really have the same "skin in the game" as an airline running a fully-funded programme. One of the attractions...

Thank you for all of the replies so far. I've started the ball rolling on the Class 1 process, it's involved a couple of referrals, one I've definitely passed, the other I've been told I'm highly likely to pass. I put in for the Speedbird Academy the past two years, unfortunately didn't make...

I've noticed a couple of people on here who've made the move from flying to train driving but was wondering if anyone has been successful in going from the driving cab to the flight deck? I've been a driver for several years now and think it's a fantastic job, enjoyable, great colleagues...

I drive intercity units from the south coast to the Midlands and back and four/five car single sets are regularly full and standing for at least half or the journey. At weekends we sometimes end up leaving people behind. Certainly this year passenger numbers seem to be very high, mainly...

I know Grove Park fairly well, you'd start in Link 3 which is all DOO suburban work. Once you're in the top 50% or so of drivers (6-7 years a couple of years back) you'll add Class 375s, Ashford and Tunbridge Wells in Link 2. There's Link 1 which has later starts and earlier finishes but it's...

They haven't, from what I can tell, stated what the pay and conditions are. I presume they may be waiting until the ballot results from the recent offer are in but I don't see why anyone would bother applying until they knew such details. It'd be interesting to know what an "impeccable" safety...

I can't help but think they'd have been better waiting until the local pay talks take place next year and being really intransigent then. The right-wing media will be loving this, it gives the impression that ASLEF are already biting the hand that's just fed them and feeds into the anti-union...

I think limited career progression in the driving grade isn't entirely a bad thing. So far, I've found it much easier to escape the politics on the railway compared with elsewhere and I'd put a fair bit of that down to the fact that a lot of drivers have no interest in doing a DI or DM role...