Jobs abroad

[Nighthawke]

I would suggest that without being fluent in both German and French, you would struggle in Switzerland. Even as a holiday-maker it is difficult without some basics in both when moving across the country. Being fluent in a non-English speaking country's language I would think to be essential for such a job.

 

[Shaw S Hunter]

So no point then.... Typical EU

Little or no point for us, yes, but useful for most other countries due to the number of cross-border rail lines. For example while signalling systems can vary drastically from one nation to another a licence holder has demonstrated their ability to absorb the knowledge required to operate under one system and can therefore be reasonably assumed to be capable of learning another system without the need to start their training from scratch. The same goes for other rail systems and protocols. It makes cross-border operations much simpler to arrange and modify, especially useful for freight traffic. Arguably the UK could/should have obtained an opt-out but there are still rails across our borders with both the Republic of Ireland and France so some bureaucracy is inevitable. This will be true with or without Brexit.