Passed trainee train driver process

Passed trainee train driver process

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Junious

Original Poster:

16 posts

85 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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As the tittle says last week i completed tbe whole recruitment stages to becoming a trainee train driver smile i applied in January (new year new me sort of thing) and i found out early april that i will be starting in may (4 weeks)

Thank you to everyone for all your advice in my previous post.

Chris944_S2

1,912 posts

222 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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You must be chuffed with that!

catfood12

1,410 posts

141 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Chris944_S2 said:
You must be chuffed with that!
Worth some points, that one.

Sheetmaself

5,663 posts

197 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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So glad they choo choo choosed you!

Seriously well done, hope you have a long and happy career.

voyds9

8,488 posts

282 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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So you will be looking forward to 26 weeks holiday, 14 days bank holiday and 20 weeks striking.

I hope you enjoy those 4 weeks work

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Are you on the Fast Track?

Junious

Original Poster:

16 posts

85 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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voyds9 said:
So you will be looking forward to 26 weeks holiday, 14 days bank holiday and 20 weeks striking.

I hope you enjoy those 4 weeks work
That was the attraction to the job mate lol

Junious

Original Poster:

16 posts

85 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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carreauchompeur said:
Are you on the Fast Track?
All i know is that there was a recruitment drive at the time. I was in the right place at the rigjt time

Junious

Original Poster:

16 posts

85 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Sheetmaself said:
So glad they choo choo choosed you!

Seriously well done, hope you have a long and happy career.
Lol thanks mate

alorotom

11,908 posts

186 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Junious said:
carreauchompeur said:
Are you on the Fast Track?
All i know is that there was a recruitment drive at the time. I was in the right place at the rigjt time
Incoming Whoooosh ??

MoggieMinor

457 posts

144 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Well done and good luck. The railway is still a fantastic career despite all the moaning you will hear about "how good it used to be" Usually off the ex BR lot! I'm on the other side of the coin, been signalling 17 tears.

Enjoy!

Junious

Original Poster:

16 posts

85 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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MoggieMinor said:
Well done and good luck. The railway is still a fantastic career despite all the moaning you will hear about "how good it used to be" Usually off the ex BR lot! I'm on the other side of the coin, been signalling 17 tears.

Enjoy!
Thank you sir.... im eager to start my training as ive been stuck in the same routine for 14 years in my previous job

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Have you been shown how to go on strike yet?

Junious

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16 posts

85 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Willy Nilly said:
Have you been shown how to go on strike yet?
Start training in 3-4 weeks! I think thats the first thing they teach us on the course

Willy Nilly

12,511 posts

166 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Junious said:
Willy Nilly said:
Have you been shown how to go on strike yet?
Start training in 3-4 weeks! I think thats the first thing they teach us on the course
Excellent cool

5150

685 posts

254 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Well done.

Can you give us an insight as to what you had to go through?

Yipper

5,964 posts

89 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Well done.

Can be a good and rewarding career. Know someone who works on the Tube and he rakes it in.

But make sure you have a second back-up career in mind, to cover the next 10 to 15 years and beyond. Overground and underground train drivers will soon be replaced by automated trains, AI, and robots. Unions will fight automation for you, but they won't be able to stop it. And don't pretend "it won't happen", because that is what horse-and-carriage drivers said in the early 20th century about the car...

slipstream 1985

12,127 posts

178 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Junious said:
MoggieMinor said:
Well done and good luck. The railway is still a fantastic career despite all the moaning you will hear about "how good it used to be" Usually off the ex BR lot! I'm on the other side of the coin, been signalling 17 tears.

Enjoy!
Thank you sir.... im eager to start my training as ive been stuck in the same routine for 14 years in my previous job
Yes a job as a train driver will let you choose where your career takes you.....

Sheetmaself

5,663 posts

197 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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slipstream 1985 said:
Junious said:
MoggieMinor said:
Well done and good luck. The railway is still a fantastic career despite all the moaning you will hear about "how good it used to be" Usually off the ex BR lot! I'm on the other side of the coin, been signalling 17 tears.

Enjoy!
Thank you sir.... im eager to start my training as ive been stuck in the same routine for 14 years in my previous job
Yes a job as a train driver will let you choose where your career takes you.....
I thought they'd be a predetermined path!

I'm here all night, enjoy the chicken

valiant

10,068 posts

159 months

Monday 17th April 2017
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Yipper said:
Well done.

Can be a good and rewarding career. Know someone who works on the Tube and he rakes it in.

But make sure you have a second back-up career in mind, to cover the next 10 to 15 years and beyond. Overground and underground train drivers will soon be replaced by automated trains, AI, and robots. Unions will fight automation for you, but they won't be able to stop it. And don't pretend "it won't happen", because that is what horse-and-carriage drivers said in the early 20th century about the car...
Wouldn't bother. It's going to be a few decades until the tube will be driverless. Many, many, many more decades until the mainline gets anywhere near full driverless operation, if ever. The op will be long in the grave before this happens in any meaningful way.

Enjoy op! Being doing it for 15 years now and still enjoy it. Although you never really get used to getting up at 3am though

smile