Recent content by Raikkonen7

Firstly, best of luck in pursuing your career in the railway. I’m currently a driver and can easily say it’s the best job I’ve had even if the shifts can be a bit brutal! To echo what others have said, I would suggest going through your CV again and looking at your grammar. There are several...

When strikes coincided with classroom training, we didn’t attend training school that day. We all signed into teams and went through previous content with our trainer, however, we weren’t allowed to be taught any new content through teams.

This is good for practicing the Group Bourdon. https://www.railforums.co.uk/attachments/bourdon-zip.36183/ I also purchased practice material through here. It might be worth shopping around or looking at eBay as £63 is pretty expensive for the platinum pack...

An update for any leavers regarding performance related pay and guess what, we’re getting absolutely nothing. Absolutely disgusting by NR.

Cheers for this. I left prior to the industrial action commencing, so the positive attendance shouldn’t really affect me. Then again, I wouldn’t count on getting anything given what’s happened with leavers and the pay award.

Hi everyone. I left NR as a signaller last July. Does anyone know if I’ll be entitled to any performance related pay from 2021 and 2022?

Well, you’re right, you have to apply in the first place to determine that. Do a good application and CV and relate everything to why you want to be a Train Driver and what attributes make you suitable for the role. Don’t be be disheartened if you get knocked back by companies as it’s very a...

I start my training for Sheffield in a couple of weeks. Could I please ask what’s the format regarding exams in the initial classroom stage? I did my signalling training a while back and had 3 exams over the 11 weeks with the first exam being week 5 from memory.

A few months.

Sorry to hear it didn’t go as planned. Good experience for when you next have a DMI though. I start August 29th.

I was employed like this in Feb 20. Started school May 20 and finished August 20 and managed to secure a permanent role Sept 20 after applying for numerous positions. After finishing school, I trained at one location for a short while but this was curtailed due to COVID.

I interviewed in April for Sheffield and was recently offered a start date Aug 29th 22.

I got sent an email.

Cheers. Took me many years to finally get there!

I was, but then Northern offered me a role, and it suits me better.