Passed trainee train driver process

[RemyMartin81D]

What TOC and depot?

[Junious]

valiant said:

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

Agreed. Im already working shift work. I know driverless will come one day but doubt it will be before my time on the rails.

[Yipper]

Junious said:

valiant said:

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

Agreed. Im already working shift work. I know driverless will come one day but doubt it will be before my time on the rails.

The Piccadilly Line in London is on track to get driverless trains by 2022-2024 and the entire Tube network is quietly scheduled to be completely driverless by 2035-2040.

It is closer than you think.

[RemyMartin81D]

Yipper said:

Junious said:

valiant said:

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

Agreed. Im already working shift work. I know driverless will come one day but doubt it will be before my time on the rails.

The Piccadilly Line in London is on track to get driverless trains by 2022-2024 and the entire Tube network is quietly scheduled to be completely driverless by 2035-2040.

It is closer than you think.

The tube is not the same as main line. It's much much slower, the infrastructure for driverless operation has been in use for a very long time. The tube drivers will all become on board supervisors much like the DLR.

The mainline network will not be driverless in my careers lifetime.

[demic]

Well done! Remember there's no such thing as a stupid question. Good luck with your training.

[Junious]

demic said:

Well done! Remember there's no such thing as a stupid question. Good luck with your training.

Cheers. Cant wait