Passsed a Trainee Train Driver Assessment
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BMW3s6 said:
Less than that, 40k is average after you pass out your salary will go up, then it will take another year before you earn full pay as you have to do one years probation after you pass all your training
Just asked my brother about this as he's banging on about £50k a year whereas its advertised as £38k, they don't include Sunday working which is compulsory for most shifts plus other extra shift days that you would be expected to work.
Rick101 said:
Overtime is where you'll see the extra and there is plenty of it if your willing.
Not a driver but a controller grade, usual take home is about 2.8, this period I did 4.6!
Nice pop before Christmas
Not bad....says the 23year old with £££ in his eyes Not a driver but a controller grade, usual take home is about 2.8, this period I did 4.6!
Nice pop before Christmas
Edited by Stedman on Wednesday 26th December 21:27
Stedman said:
Not bad....days the 23year old with £££ in his eyes
This place's profits have the potential to go through the roof in the next 12 months then 
Rick101 said:
Overtime is where you'll see the extra and there is plenty of it if your willing.
Not a driver but a controller grade, usual take home is about 2.8, this period I did 4.6!
Nice pop before Christmas
I'm assuming you work for Northern Rick?Not a driver but a controller grade, usual take home is about 2.8, this period I did 4.6!
Nice pop before Christmas
So do I but in the booking offices.
Right right right, where do I start? I guess Monday is natural!
Monday 7th - I'm sat in the reception area, I see my Trainee Partner who was on the same assessment as me (17th October). I knew he'd got through and be there, as I saw him at the medical in December. In total there were about 10 of us on the induction, and it was clear we were from all walks of life. After a brief chat with the others, it became clear that this wasn't just a Train Driver induction. How naive of me to think it would be! In reality i'd just assumed.
When we all go upstairs to our room for the week, we're asked to do introductions etc. One question I think that will always stand out in my mind was 'What do you do to relax?'. Mental note - number 1. It was now that it became clear that this was a mixed induction for all different roles. I'm pleased actually, as over the course of the week we all shared our different experiences. Variety is the spice of life!
Apologies for the poor (read: boring) update over the weekend, i've been pretty busy. I'll write some more tomorrow night. I may even bring good news saying that i've passed my Track Safety course that i'm doing tomorrow!
Monday 7th - I'm sat in the reception area, I see my Trainee Partner who was on the same assessment as me (17th October). I knew he'd got through and be there, as I saw him at the medical in December. In total there were about 10 of us on the induction, and it was clear we were from all walks of life. After a brief chat with the others, it became clear that this wasn't just a Train Driver induction. How naive of me to think it would be! In reality i'd just assumed.
When we all go upstairs to our room for the week, we're asked to do introductions etc. One question I think that will always stand out in my mind was 'What do you do to relax?'. Mental note - number 1. It was now that it became clear that this was a mixed induction for all different roles. I'm pleased actually, as over the course of the week we all shared our different experiences. Variety is the spice of life!
Apologies for the poor (read: boring) update over the weekend, i've been pretty busy. I'll write some more tomorrow night. I may even bring good news saying that i've passed my Track Safety course that i'm doing tomorrow!
Are you doing freight or passenger?
Thanks to your thread and the links on the other train thread, I have applied for trainee positions at First and DB Shenker. If I hear anything back I would hope for freight with DB as it's local to me whilst First is oop North and will mean relocating away from ex-wife and kids. Both good and bad.
Currently getting to grips with Trainz simulator on the Mac
This has been a real eye opener to all that the fella does at the front of the train and I read an excellent on-line blog written by a guy who covers everything from application through to all the training to finally a year later when he does his first solo.
My question to all you drivers out there: How on earth do you keep to time so exactly? I know we moan about delays and cancellations but to be honest my trains tend to arrive and depart to the minute.
Suddenly I am impressed
Good luck with your continued training.
ETA Weirdly just after I wrote this I got an email from First and although I met the short listing criteria, others had scored more highly. Never mind, it would have been a major wrench to leave the kids.
Glad that I met the criteria considering my cv was all TV Cameraman
Thanks to your thread and the links on the other train thread, I have applied for trainee positions at First and DB Shenker. If I hear anything back I would hope for freight with DB as it's local to me whilst First is oop North and will mean relocating away from ex-wife and kids. Both good and bad.
Currently getting to grips with Trainz simulator on the Mac
This has been a real eye opener to all that the fella does at the front of the train and I read an excellent on-line blog written by a guy who covers everything from application through to all the training to finally a year later when he does his first solo.
My question to all you drivers out there: How on earth do you keep to time so exactly? I know we moan about delays and cancellations but to be honest my trains tend to arrive and depart to the minute.
Suddenly I am impressed
Good luck with your continued training.
ETA Weirdly just after I wrote this I got an email from First and although I met the short listing criteria, others had scored more highly. Never mind, it would have been a major wrench to leave the kids.
Glad that I met the criteria considering my cv was all TV Cameraman
Edited by croyde on Thursday 31st January 14:57
croyde said:
My question to all you drivers out there: How on earth do you keep to time so exactly? I know we moan about delays and cancellations but to be honest my trains tend to arrive and depart to the minute.
there is 'make up time' in the schedule .if you are running to time , you might get stopped outside a station for a couple of minutes or be allowed into the station early but depart on time .
if you are late , then that time might allow you to get back on time .
freight schedules sometimes have the train stopped in a loop , yard or at a junction for a couple of minutes ( up to a couple of hours ) .
croyde said:
My question to all you drivers out there: How on earth do you keep to time so exactly? I know we moan about delays and cancellations but to be honest my trains tend to arrive and depart to the minute.
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I'm a freight driver but the principle is the same as it is for all those nice passenger chappies out there.... you drive to the conditions of the 'road', putting your faith in the signalling system and those who operate it, get up to and stay at your maximum speed where allowed, and have faith in your own abilities and most important of all - your intimate knowledge of the routes you work over ;-)]
The first solo outing always feel great whatever the circumstances - mine was a baptism of fire, or rather, fog! I was sat spare in the mess room and got the call to go light engine from Rugby to Wembley in the middle of a very dark, very foggy night... for much of the trip I couldn't see any of the signals until I'd passed over the AWS ramps...!
Edited by P5Nij on Thursday 31st January 20:13
marksx said:
Do you work shifts during the training period, to get you into the swing, so to speak. Or is it normal hours?
When I trained a few years ago all the classroom stuff was 9-5. If you were out with a driver for a week then you would follow his shift pattern (praying that he wasn't on 3.45am starts!)Pugland53 said:
marksx said:
Do you work shifts during the training period, to get you into the swing, so to speak. Or is it normal hours?
When I trained a few years ago all the classroom stuff was 9-5. If you were out with a driver for a week then you would follow his shift pattern (praying that he wasn't on 3.45am starts!)I'm in the classroom Monday-Thursday and I then go out on a shift on the Friday with a D.I. As I said last Friday, I got my first drive on my second shift out! I don't think this would have happened if I hadn't of had a few days in the simulator and progressed quicker than our schedule says we should have. I'm very lucky to have a classroom trainer I get along with well and who understands us all. We'll sit and do some classroom work and then he'll tell us to get out there and observe things at different stations which I find helps a great deal. East Croydon is one stop down from the classroom, and it has near enough everything there in regards to Signals, so guess what we did!
The idea of the shifts is to cement your learning in that week, make you ask questions, help you to absorb other stuff, and to get a roundabout idea of what the railway is like! Some people who have got on a course (not MY course) are COMPLETELY new. No idea what ballast is, never done shifts before etc, which is why my TOC have realised how beneficial the Friday's are.
Croyde - i'm doing Passenger work.
One thing I have perfected over the last 3 weeks work is the Train Driver's Nod.
"alright" I did the cutting and sticking in the rule book this week. Wow. Next week i'm out for two days in the cab with my Sectional Appendix...I can already here the sniggers of the qualified blokes!
Edited by Stedman on Friday 1st February 11:22
Stedman said:
I did the cutting and sticking in the rule book this week.
stuff that !http://www.rgsonline.co.uk/Rule_Book/Forms/Live_Do...
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