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    What railway service and experience have you got?

    20 years as a HGV driver. 2 years as a station assistant on the Kings Cross group of LUL. 3 years as a train operator on the Jubilee Line of LUL.
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    Are guards salaries catching drivers ?

    One SPAD and you're out
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    Gateline assistant

    Sounds like a HGV medical. As long as you can walk and talk and have 2 of everything you should have, you're in.
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    Track Operative on LUL

    www.thetube.com Google the above website and go to the jobs page. A track operative (nights) paying £31,206. 35 hour week but weekends are inside. Based at Lambeth. Worth a look. Good luck to those who fancy it.
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    How do I become a train operator?

    LUL are indeed Train Operators. If you live near London, I have it on good authority that they will be looking for station staff in the New Year. So keep an eye on their website. They are training station staff who have been promoted now so that's the way in. They will never recruit for DROPS...
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    You Have To Laugh!

    Amen to that.
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    You Have To Laugh!

    It was SHL who sent out the assessment. A bunch of clowns from what I can see.
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    You Have To Laugh!

    Anyone come across this? You take 2 hours out of your life to fill in an online application form in the best way possible. You send it in and wait weeks. Just after the closing date, a muppet 3rd party firm sends you an online assessment. All good so far. Or is it? The online assessment...
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    First Great Western trainie train drivers, Reading, Paddington & Oxford

    Thanks for the tips Latecomer. Glad you are getting along with it. I am in fact an ex tube train driver so I know how intense the courses you are on. LUL have or had the attitude that once you get so far, you do go all the way so to speak. Unless the person is either a numpty or downright...
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    Assesments for FGW

    Where have you put in for Sonic? I have applied to Oxford.
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    First Great Western trainie train drivers, Reading, Paddington & Oxford

    Thanks russmcp. I don't feel so over the hill now. :D
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    First Great Western trainie train drivers, Reading, Paddington & Oxford

    What age are you espaceman? I reckon I wasted my time at age 45.
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    Large TOC throwing away applications

    The way employers usually get around this one is with the statement..... "If you haven't heard anything by blah blah date then assume you are unsuccessful".
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    Have the goal posts moved a lot?

    Beveridges, please don't let what I say put you off of applying for anything. Like I say, I can't speak for mainline but if it's anything like the tube, up and down on the same piece of track day in day out, year after year, I could imagine it to get boring, perhaps not to the extent of the...
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    Have the goal posts moved a lot?

    Like I say Beveridges, I can't speak for mainline. But I just assume up and down the same stretch hour after hour, day after day, it could get boring like the tube. Please don't let my opinion put you off of applying for anything. It's just my opinion. Notadriver, I was a Train Operator for 3...
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    Have the goal posts moved a lot?

    Can I stick in my two pennies worth about this lorry and train argument? I have driven HGV Class One vehicles since the ripe age of 21. It is something that I have always wanted to do and it was an ambition since I can remember. I also had the ambition to drive a tube train and I achieved...
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    First Great Western trainie train drivers, Reading, Paddington & Oxford

    I put in for Oxford. Don't know why, just for devilment I suppose as half the population have probably done it as well. I was a train operator on London Underground so I know how long and drawn out these affairs can be. It took over 6 months from application to job on LUL. From what I have...

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