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Thanks for the further replies! Working shifts doesn't really bother me, it's what I'm used to and indeed most of my friends are similar so it's always been a case of socialising on the rare occasions when the moons align. Admittedly, the times are a little more extreme than I'm used to but...

Thanks for all he the replies so far, I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to share some thoughts. ComUtoR, Thanks for the links to those threads, I'll have a read of them this afternoon. Shift work I am accustomed to, if you can be such a thing. I hate the getting up at o'dark hundred...

That aside, anyone care to share what they find are the pros and cons of the job?

Apologies, I phrased that badly. My thinking was along the lines that obviously it involves long periods of monotony, worsened by the silence..

Hi All, I've managed to progress through the stages of driving recruitment for a TOC in my region and I'm now waiting for a position to become available locally. I still have a lot of queries about the reality of being a train driver, and want to make sure I have all the information I can...