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Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good book or map that I can use for planning european rail travel please? Cheers

TEs are primarily to collect fares, not PF or MG11 trained but can issue unpaid fare notices like most conductors can. It’s a different role to RPIs.

I’m no expert but I think you’ll be spending a lot of time on the Severn Beach line…

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West Midlands Railway: Worcester Traction: 170, 172/0, 172/2, 172/3, future 196 Routes: Hereford-Birmingham New Street, Worcester-Birmingham Snow Hill, Birmingham Snow Hill to Stratford via Whitlocks End and Dorridge including trains terminating at both. Diversions via Camp Hill and Smethwick...

Train Manager is GBRf’s parlance for Driver, so I imagine SB Rail are the same. As mentioned above, it’ll be questions relating to driving the train. Probably best to check the Becoming a Train Driver thread. As a tamper driver, you’ll most likely work within engineering possessions, so that...

Lovely place, nice varied work. Earliest start is 04:15, latest finish 01:00 or so. Drivers are all in one big link, with the exception of anyone accommodated. Been there for five years and I’m quite happy.

Worcester Shrub Hill Traction: 153, 170, 172 Routes: Worcester - Kidderminster - Moor Street - Dorridge/Stratford on Avon Birmingham New Street - University/Camp Hill - Bromsgrove - Worcester - Hereford Right, couple of little things. We as drivers don’t sign Stratford via Dorridge. We do...

I started at 18, guard at 21, and now I’m not far from passing out as a driver at 23. Yes, I did have to start at the bottom but to suggest it takes anywhere like 20 years is wrong. If you’ve got the right mindset and keep your nose clean you can get there quite quickly. Even if someone...

Alright mate, as another commenter has said it’s the Snow Hill Lines. So that’s as far as Leamington, Stratford via Dorridge and also via Whitlocks End, Tyseley depot and as far as Great Malvern in the opposite direction. Drivers at Leamington Spa sign all of the above, plus as far as Nuneaton...

Try offering your services to a rail industry recruiter on LinkedIn, they’re always after engineers and I imagine you could find something to fit your circumstances. Good luck

The new employee rewards platform is coming soon, the old one was London Midland so now the franchise has changed so too has the benefits platform. Under LM, they offered deals with EE on mobile phone contracts, discounts on gym memberships, free flu jabs and various other things in that same...

I don’t drive locos, I’m terribly sorry.

Pressed what button? Don’t understand the question here.

There’s a few interesting ones round my way. The Stourbridge Guards room has the feel of a prison cell, but with a worse telly and fewer comfortable places to sit. Communal mess room at Birmingham New Street is so far underground it must be a designated nuclear shelter so obviously no phone...

Got a mate that does it and he loves it, looks like plenty of variety in routes and work. My mate books on around the Midlands, usually Leicester and drives a lot of class 37s. Hours are probably worse than passenger companies as in less sociable. Pension I don’t know. No, no travel privileges...

Hello. Been a dispatcher and a guard for LM/WMR now a trainee Driver for the same company. Reckon we’ve got quite good Ts and Cs. Pay is good, for most grades better than any of the others such as Northern and East Mids. When it comes to travel, we’ve got free travel with Merseyrail, East...

Started my proper working career as a Licensing Officer with the council, dealing with naughty pubs and taxi drivers. Fun for about six months thereafter a depressing chore. Became a Platform Assistant, loved it until I hated it. Then became a guard and loved every minute and now I’m a trainee...

Reading TMs work the Basingstoke shuttles and the North Downs to Gatwick. I know a couple of Reading blokes and I’ve seen them working these trains.

When I was a guard for a Midlands based TOC, we didn’t have targets as such but were incentivised on sales by way of commission. Didn’t issue PFs but did issue UPFNs, however they weren’t tracked and just gave us another option to help someone out. Revenue figures came out monthly and managers...