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Network Rails Track recording unit was inspecting the Sunderland south dock railway today. Apparently all the track down there has been renewed, creating a whole host of rumours. Any truth to the whispers of Nissan using the port?
Hi Wilko5816
Can’t answer much about the parking arrangements in London due to being based elsewhere. But:
- Sunday’s inclusive in the working week
- Bank holidays are normal days. Luck
Of the draw with regards to what/when you have off
- rest day work sign on payment + pay for the shift
-...
Question to the drivers on here.
With regards to keep your rules knowledge up to date, and preparing for a rules assessment, anyone have any certain ways/things they use to do it?
We regularly get ‘sandwiched’ on our jaunts via the coast. And not stopping we catch up the train ahead rather. A lot of traffic on a small, slow section. Would be good to see the DCL get some More
Investment and see More use it.
As for the port. It makes sense. Tyne is a much more attractable...
Hopefully it picks up and gets off the ground. A valuable asset that is woefully underpublicised.
As for Nissan. Maybe if the Leamside was still open, a rail link to the plant would exist. It’s not far from the site of the track passing by the area.
I drove passed the docks the other day and...
Good that folk are finding out. I'm intrigued as the checking test wasn't part of what we had to do (altered since I went through it last year)
What sort of things were apart of it?
For jobs like this, playing little games and tricks to increase your chances only Gives someone else the job.
Hard work, effort, more hard work and more effort will get you the job, even if it takes a few attempts.
Best of luck to all of those who have apppied. A great opportunity that...
Can assure any potential recruits. The job will include incredibly early starts, incredibly late finishes, night turns, weekends etc
It's part and parcel of the Job. Some shifts you will hate. Some you will like. That's what you'll be signing up for.
It's a great chance. Jump through any...
Edinburgh cover Aberdeen, Glasgow, Stirling and Newcastle. With Perth and Carlisle as diversions
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Handling is the work up to final assessment. A few months of solid driving over your core route in the core traction
Hi mate.
Yeah Sundays inclusive. And 4.25 day week
Spare turns are allocated at each depot. Generally I think it's a few days allocated in certain lines on the link. So you'll go through a phase of having a few days spare, but generally, you could be informed in advance of being swapped...
Generally spend 5 months in the classroom working up the basic knowledge, with around a month spent in the 2nd man seat observing what you've learned. Rules course lasts around 6 weeks (towards the end of that five months), then 5 weeks traction training (could change with IEP) before going out...
The driver who takes the Inverness up will lodge in INV, pass to aderdeen the next day, work ABD-EDB.
The morning inverness driver will have worked to Aberdeen the previous day, passed to INV after ditching his set, lodge overnight at INV, ready for the morning service
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