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Nothing wrong with looking out the window. It's officially called the "look back" method of dispatch. Providing the platform is straight or left hand curved, you look out the window. If you can see every set of doors, you dispatch. If there are passengers in the way of seeing every door, you...

Ah, so you got redundancy, huh? Jammy begger! I would've done anything for that! Voluntary? Looks like I'm stuck with my 6 years then. Well, 1 down 5 to go! And... Apologies for hijacking the thread - and to give an answer to the OP -I'm not sure of GA's policy about time off for training...

I had no idea you could do that. How do you go about doing that? Thanks!

The program has been attached to a post in the "How to become a train driver" sticky thread, along with the reaction test program, courtesy of TheVicLine. Please see here: http://railforums.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1262664&postcount=378

There is no need to revise sandite. One of the trainability for rules test asks you to read a passage of information, whilst listening to someone reading the same passage aloud on CD. You then have a further 7 minutes to make notes on what you have heard and read. The written passage and your...

If the training location is more than two hours from your home depot, they pay for hotels.

The classroom training is all over the place. We will be at Paddington, Reading, Swindon and Bristol for various parts of the classroom stuff. The train handling part will be at our 'home station', Oxford in my case.

Basically after qualification the amount to repay is the percentage of the 2 year period which remains at the date of leaving, but not more than £5.5k. So if leaving straight after qualification, you would repay £5.5K, but if you leave after a year and a half, you would repay £1,375. (25%...

I can only answer question 2 - I've just signed a contract for FGW. I also had to sign an additional "Agreement for Funding of a Train Driver Vocational Training Programme". One of the conditions in that states that should I leave FGW within 2 years after qualifying I would have to repay some or...

Yep, the forum has been a goldmine of helpful information. Well, I look forward to meeting you on Monday!

Welcome to the forum, stoffus! You have been very quiet! Have you been lurking this whole time?

To kick off then - I'm starting on the 5th at Oxford. For those interested in the length of the training programme, it is planned at 45 weeks.

The OP just needs to call them and ask them hypothetically without giving them a name!

Agreed. I had been practicing on the PC at home, and when I got to the assessment and did it on paper, I found that I was much more confident. OP, get hold of some practice GB papers and give it a go. As to the implications on your first application should you fail, it may be worth calling the...

Im not entirely sure, someone will correct me soon if I'm wrong, but I believe that priv discounts can only be used for anytime tickets. EDIT: Damn! Beaten to it by seconds!

I would call the second TOC to let them know that you've passed the assessments. If both TOC's assessment requirements are the same, then you should not have to take them a second time as the first test pass should count. I don't think it will affect your chances with the second TOC.

They ask as many questions that they need to in order to get the information they need from you. They don't have a list of questions that they will ask.

Yes they do understand that it's an extremely stressful experience, so they do all they can to put you at ease and try to make you feel as comfortable as they can! The "grilling" comment was toungue-in-cheek, it may feel like that you the interviewee, but it is an interview, rather than an...

Yes, it is definately a grilling! I was sweating quite profusely! Keep calm, listen to what the interviewer is asking you, and answer the questions with as much detail as you can. I believe (but don't quote me) that the questions you answered during the on line application were used...

If you have good, solid examples that you can give, then it's fine. You need to think of examples that you can provide good information about on the paper, but with enough information left over for the interviewer to get out of you during the interview, if you see what I mean. For one of the...