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Sight and hearing tests. Colour blindness test, ECG, height and weight for BMI. Drug and alcohol pee test. Proctological exam..... possibly not the last

Atm we have booked/rostered Sundays (roughly 2 a month) which we can make ourselves unavailable for, if someone has put in for Sunday overtime, if no one has then you've to work them. It's an enhanced rate at GWR currently. Far as I'm aware for tocs with Sundays inside the week it's standard...

Last I heard the DFT wanted us to give them our Sundays are part of the pay negotiation. Aslef see it as a separate negotiation as Sundays outside is a term and condition we can sell anytime, historically Sundays have been worth a £4-5k increase when sold so should be a separate pay talk. See...

Wait until there's a trainee driver advert. Apply, pass the online tests, pass the standardised rail assessments, pass the multi modal interview. Then you'll get a Driver manager interview.

They'll have a record of when you passed as it's obviously a requirement. Whether they tell you when your assessments are about to expire or not I'm not sure. Best thing is monitor it yourself and, hopefully not, but if you're approaching five years contact HR and let them know. I can't be...

GWR accept the assessment results for the standard 5 years. SWR only 3.

One of our DI's had an upskill course recently and the training manager said that they're expecting trainee classes approx end of year/ beginning of next. So it sounds like it's accurate

Thanks. Long time getting there but it's definitely worth it. Hopefully your training is significantly quicker having waited so long to get to it. If you need any help during the course I'm happy to help if I can

Yeah, passed out end of Jan

Brilliant! Congratulations.

We were put in hotels because our travel time was 2hr 40m from our depot. Not sure how long the cut off is. Far as I know you can claim travelling time 1653037824 Just checked and you qualify for hotels if the journey is over 1 1/2 hours

True, there is retirement, transfers...natural wastage in effect. Sadly there's also that there was a large recruitment 2018,19 with the future plans for the franchise that were scuppered by covid that's now a National Rail contract. It could be that those trained and in training now cover the...

I had a conditional offer and then got the contract after passing the medical

I'm not sure if HEX is different in t&c for new starters but the other trainees at gwr qualify at 80% of full wage and it then increases 10% after 1 full productive year and to full whack after 2 years. RD work is 1 1/4. Could be HEX is different terms though

Congratulations all who've got start dates.

Depending on where you live, keep an eye out on the relevant train operating companies recruitment sites. First group careers, GTR, TPE ect... Being honest there's unlikely to much (if any) recruitment in the immediate future as the recovery from covid and the transition to GBrailways is...

I'm aware of people (internals) in the process who are waiting for DMI's and MMI's still. My assumption from that is, if no more recruitment, they'd have been told and wouldn't be waiting. When I first applied at the end of 2018 there was speculation that Sundays becoming part of the working...

That's a pass. Well done.

There are courses planned (and filled as far as I'm aware) and ongoing this year. I've also heard that any new trainees would be offered late '22 early '23 courses but who really knows. There's still adverts for qualified drivers for a lot of depots (as there has been since 2018) so maybe...

Unfortunately, any reply from HR usually leaves most people guessing. There's the generic emails... "When the pool is complete we'll contact people"...being one. Other times you may actually get a direct reply. There's the mixed messages in that some are told that the highest scoring regardless...