What railway service and experience have you got?

[Tin Rocket]

A post by Lincolnshire in another thread got me wondering as to how much railway work service folk have on this forum,i started in 1997 on maintenance and am currently back on maintenance but was with 5 different companies before on renewals/new works

 

[Urban Gateline]

This job was my first time in a railway job, so I now have just over 7 months of Railway experience, in a Gateline role.

Previous to this, I worked (and still do work) in Retail, where I have been for 5 years and 3 Months. From this, I gained vast Customer Service experience!

Apologies if I don't qualify under "service folk"

 

[cookiescrumble]

I have zilch in the way of railway experience at the moment, although I will be starting as a gateline assisstant for SWT at the end of January. I'm hoping to move up to be a guard for SWT towards the end of this year.

I'll be joining with 7 and a half years retail experience behind me, which has given me first hand experience of working in a customer focused environment.

 

[EM2]

Just under a year as a trainee S&T Tech and now three years as a Network Rail Customer Service Assistant & eighteen months as a Station Control Lead.

 

[ANorthernGuard]

A post by Lincolnshire in another thread got me wondering as to how much railway work service folk have on this forum,i started in 1997 on maintenance and am currently back on maintenance but was with 5 different companies before on renewals/new works

Near enoughj a decade as a guard and 3rd gen railwayman

Not bad

 

[TDK]

12 years in the driving grade with 5 of those as a traction inspector

 

[driver9000]

7 years in the driving grade.

5 years PSV.

 

[Steve1966]

20 years as a HGV driver.
2 years as a station assistant on the Kings Cross group of LUL.
3 years as a train operator on the Jubilee Line of LUL.

 

[Simon11]

19 months as an analyst in the commercial department and about to move to my third toc

 

[warrior33]

Three and a half years as a Customer Service Assistant and a year and a half as a Station Control Assistant, within Network Rail.

Before that, was with Balfour Beatty as a Techie.

 

[185]

Been here since Intercity days. Still got my black raincoat with the swallow logo somewhere.

 

[Beveridges]

Just over 4 years, most of it as an MDD/Shunter

 

[attics26]

34 years 2 months all of it at Darlington.

 

[33056]

Nearly 27 years here, mostly as a signaller but also as an operations supervisor, AOC and TCS (not all at the same time )

 

[Class2ldn]

9 years pcv, 2 years lgv and started training as a driver in mid 2010. Will be qualified a year in 2-3 months time

 

[NLC1072]

2 years gateline/relief ticket office and onboard crew, now 2 more years ticket office as static staff.

 

[western Champion]

Got 26 years in plus the railway YTS in 1985.

2 years carriage cleaning at Oxley.

1 year secondman Bescot and Wolves

9 and half years driver at New St (BR and Central)

13 and half years driver at Wolves (Virgin)

 

[RPM]

9 years in the driving grade, 4 years as a station manager, 2 years as a booking office clerk.

 

[Minilad]

3 years in Booking offices, Redditch and Longbridge
A short stint as a guard with Central Trains (3 months)
And now coming up to 11 years Driving

 

[feliner]

33 years service in June 2012, 6 as secondman and 27 in driving grade.

 

[telecaster]

4 years.
2 ticket office.
2 general station stuff, gates, ticket office, security, ..

 

[185]

Experience and ability counts for nothing nowadays.

Despite me pulling yet another fake annual £900 railway season ticket today which their own staff had missed for three months, one company still won't recruit me despite 15 years railway experience.

Begins with N

(Could be Now Then! Rail, trains from Yoikshire?!?!)

 

[francisoldfield]

well I have about 3 years as a PSV driver

and in rail

I have a year as a station assistant

2 and a half years as a conductor

next week I start as a trainee driver

 

[Michael.Y]

3 months experience as a steward

 

[martin2345uk]

3 months experience as a steward

Why an embarrassed smiley matey?? Nothing to be embarrassed about whatsoever IMO!

 

[ANorthernGuard]

Experience and ability counts for nothing nowadays.

Despite me pulling yet another fake annual £900 railway season ticket today which their own staff had missed for three months, one company still won't recruit me despite 15 years railway experience.

Begins with N

(Could be Now Then! Rail, trains from Yoikshire?!?!)

hmmmm I wonder lol, Only the very very best here at Northern *cough

 

[Bellwater]

Experience and ability counts for nothing nowadays.

Despite me pulling yet another fake annual £900 railway season ticket today which their own staff had missed for three months, one company still won't recruit me despite 15 years railway experience.

Begins with N

(Could be Now Then! Rail, trains from Yoikshire?!?!)

'Refrains from own gripes with Northern' Fortunately my current employer saw the value of my experience and clean record.

 

[Michael.Y]

Why an embarrassed smiley matey?? Nothing to be embarrassed about whatsoever IMO!

Just starting out an' all that. Hoping I'll match some of the impressive records on here someday.

 

[ANorthernGuard]

'Refrains from own gripes with Northern' Fortunately my current employer saw the value of my experience and clean record.

Heck I couldn't get passed the Application form stage with FTPE, so glad I didn't as we may have old stock etc. but I know what I'm doing and where i'm going and even tho Northern are relatively strict they are nothing like the chaos that is FTPE

 

[district]

I'm starting my trainee signalman course in Feburary on the Kent & East Sussex Railway.