Question for Drivers: Working Branch Lines

[JW16]

I'd get bored on the Sudbury-Marks Tey or Romford-Upminster branches round my way... The latter is 9mins in each direction, with one intermediate stop and one signal.

 

[Harbornite]

Yes they have.

Well I never knew that, cheers.

 

[dk1]

I'd get bored on the Sudbury-Marks Tey or Romford-Upminster branches round my way... The latter is 9mins in each direction, with one intermediate stop and one signal.

Wouldn't £30+ an hour relieve you're bordem?

 

[axlecounter]

It is boring only if you want it to be! The only way I can get bored while driving a train is when driving a passenger train I have nobody* on board, that really kills me.

*meaning really no one, an empty branch line train on a bank holiday

 

[Juniper Driver]

Are they on a rota for determining who drives the W&C and who drives the Central line?

When it was under British Rail we had a roster and a variety of different work.

 

[Mutant Lemming]

Aldwych shuttle wasn't a great deal of fun - one and a half minutes running time and only 2 minutes to change ends (being a three car). On the afternoon/evening shift you didn't even take the empty three cars back to Northfields. Eventually a certain character took a liking to it and swopped for it all the time working it until it's closure.