Trainee train drivers wanted...
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BlackST said:
Interview tomorrow.
Good luck! Have you been through the assessment process? My actual interview with a DTM was only after I'd been to about three assessments!I'm two weeks into traction now and loving it, a lot easier (for me) to digest than rules. Core traction are 313's, nothing like forty year old rolling stock (which to be fair everyone seems to like).
itcaptainslow said:
BlackST said:
Interview tomorrow.
Good luck! Have you been through the assessment process? My actual interview with a DTM was only after I'd been to about three assessments!I'm two weeks into traction now and loving it, a lot easier (for me) to digest than rules. Core traction are 313's, nothing like forty year old rolling stock (which to be fair everyone seems to like).
Hopefully I am successful. Seems fascinating and it is exciting hearing of the people on here starting out
BlackST said:
Haven't been to an assessment yet. If I do pass the interview tomorrow which is with a DTM then the assessment days start from next Monday in Doncaster, fingers crossed I get there. Have had a little go of the group bourdot online but not put hours in to it yet due to not knowing the outcome of the interview tomorrow.
Hopefully I am successful. Seems fascinating and it is exciting hearing of the people on here starting out
Strange way of doing it but I guess every TOC is different. Would have thought they'd put the assessments first as these have the highest failure rates.Hopefully I am successful. Seems fascinating and it is exciting hearing of the people on here starting out
Let us know how you get on.
itcaptainslow said:
BlackST said:
Interview tomorrow.
Good luck! Have you been through the assessment process? My actual interview with a DTM was only after I'd been to about three assessments!I'm two weeks into traction now and loving it, a lot easier (for me) to digest than rules. Core traction are 313's, nothing like forty year old rolling stock (which to be fair everyone seems to like).
455s however, now there's something to like!
Stedman said:
Christ, i've heard they're horrible things! Ours lose interlock going through the wash and occasionally gap in the depot due to that
455s however, now there's something to like!
Our depot is OLE so no problem there 455s however, now there's something to like!
they're reasonably simple beasts so at least if you get an issue out and about it looks as though you have half a chance of solving it.Got 317's, 321's and 365's to come, moving up in the world!
RB5Bird said:
Passed my final rules today! Got a couple of check rides to do this week, but should be done by the end of the week. Then time to brick it, out on my own. Arghhh!
Which way around does your TOC do it? Mine goes Rules-Traction then only after passing those are you out with a DI. Once you've done your hours, you then submit for assessment & hopefully passing out by a DTM.
itcaptainslow said:
Which way around does your TOC do it? Mine goes Rules-Traction then only after passing those are you out with a DI. Once you've done your hours, you then submit for assessment & hopefully passing out by a DTM.
Sorry, did the classroom phase first, finished that in July. In that, we did traction and 25a first, then rules. Then off to our home depots to start driving. I had my first/final/proper rules exam on Monday, then an assessment drive on Tuesday, and another one on Wednesday to get some hours in the dark ( 3am start to Birmingham and back!). Got my first solo drive tomorrow!!
RB5Bird said:
Sorry, did the classroom phase first, finished that in July. In that, we did traction and 25a first, then rules. Then off to our home depots to start driving. I had my first/final/proper rules exam on Monday, then an assessment drive on Tuesday, and another one on Wednesday to get some hours in the dark ( 3am start to Birmingham and back!).
Got my first solo drive tomorrow!!
As in, passed out got your own key and licence?Got my first solo drive tomorrow!!
Stedman said:
Have you chaps seen the latest advice from ASLEF RE: CSR/GSMR's unable to display a running number?
Yup, got the text too.RemyMartin said:
Glad it's all working out for everyone. Fgw do things a bit different lol.
I started in April. I won't be passing out till around June/July. Several reasons. 1) not enough DIs which means we've been doubling up.... And the fact we need to so 350 hours. Then again we do have loads of routes on our depot and they like our route knowledge to be that of a 30 year Ex Br link one driver.
Oh well get there in the end. Still it's all rosy I've driven a Hst boom.
Driving a HST was/is one of my childhood dreams, unfortunately I don't think I'll ever get to do it I started in April. I won't be passing out till around June/July. Several reasons. 1) not enough DIs which means we've been doubling up.... And the fact we need to so 350 hours. Then again we do have loads of routes on our depot and they like our route knowledge to be that of a 30 year Ex Br link one driver.
Oh well get there in the end. Still it's all rosy I've driven a Hst boom.
my Rules trainer was ex FGW, he seemed to really like it. Think he was a DI over there at one point.Hopefully the DI situation won't be the same for us...we've got to complete a minimum of 250 hours, 50 in darkness. Our routes are shorter but we still have to learn Peterborough-King's Cross, Cambridge-King's Cross and the Hertford Loop-Moorgate. Do you FGW chaps have to learn every route FGW do? Or is it like East Coast where they split the route in half (at Newcastle apparently)?
Edited by itcaptainslow on Friday 14th November 18:21
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