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Hello mate. Are you down for Penzance or exceter? I'm in the exact same boat as you then. Was successful as interview and in the pool .I have friends who work for gwr and have been trying to gauge a start for the new trainees .I have also heard July/August as it happens and that's from a fairly...
Hello mate. No idea of how many are actually sat in this pool in total. I know of a couple others but don't know them to talk to. Just know of them. IV passed everything and literally waiting for medical/training start date. IV heard services are going half hourly from January and that is what...
Hello, new to these forums but not new to buses. ( I work for FK). You'll be seeing tridents on the M6 all the time as that duty has the bus all day and does penwith college both ends.
I had the same thing on pretty much all communication from gwr. At some points I honestly thought they'd forgotten about me aha. I think they just take their time with things.
I set up a email alert on the TOC internal site and I didn't hear anything for about 7 years. Trainee spaces where I am NEVER come up. Then one night I just got the email and I jumped on it as quick as possible. I made sure my CV on the site was polished and upto date aslo .
Good luck
I don't have a massive passion for trains but I do love anything with a decent engine, stuff that's fast etc. Trains are pretty big and that's what draws me to the job. I didn't mention liking trains at all in any point in the selection process and I was successful.
There was some right train...
Stage 2 was just the multi modal interview .was fairly straight forward. You'll get given a sheet with questions and you need to provide very short answers which you can expand on. I used the STAR method and wrote them all out to get it to stick in my head. You'll need to be honest as they do...
First post so hello guys!
So last year I applied to gwr for a trainee train drivers position. What a headache. Passed the online tests then didn't hear anything for weeks . Pestered them and eventually got told to attend the assessment centre. I went and did that and then heard nothing for...
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