Highlandspring
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- 14 Oct 2017
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There’s a difference between having a professional interest in the job and being a spotter. The last thing a manager wants is to employ someone who’s more interested in looking up trains on TRUST to post information online or taking photos out of the box window than actually doing their job in a professional manner. There are quite a few railway enthusiasts in Control (they’re the ones who’ll trot over to the window when something interesting is due past) and in my experience most controllers are ‘interested’ in the job to an extent - me included - but it’s all kept pretty low key. You won’t do well at an interview for a signaller job if you come across as too much of a Nigel.