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  1. Thedispatcher

    GWR Ticket Examiner

    TEs are primarily to collect fares, not PF or MG11 trained but can issue unpaid fare notices like most conductors can. It’s a different role to RPIs.
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    GWR Ticket Examiner

    I’m no expert but I think you’ll be spending a lot of time on the Severn Beach line…
  3. Thedispatcher

    WMT Worcester depot

    0330 095 5120
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    Different Guard Depot, Route and Traction cards

    West Midlands Railway: Worcester Traction: 170, 172/0, 172/2, 172/3, future 196 Routes: Hereford-Birmingham New Street, Worcester-Birmingham Snow Hill, Birmingham Snow Hill to Stratford via Whitlocks End and Dorridge including trains terminating at both. Diversions via Camp Hill and Smethwick...
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    Train managers interview for SB rail

    Train Manager is GBRf’s parlance for Driver, so I imagine SB Rail are the same. As mentioned above, it’ll be questions relating to driving the train. Probably best to check the Becoming a Train Driver thread. As a tamper driver, you’ll most likely work within engineering possessions, so that...
  6. Thedispatcher

    WMR worcester

    Lovely place, nice varied work. Earliest start is 04:15, latest finish 01:00 or so. Drivers are all in one big link, with the exception of anyone accommodated. Been there for five years and I’m quite happy.
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    Different Driver Depot, Route and Traction cards

    Worcester Shrub Hill Traction: 153, 170, 172 Routes: Worcester - Kidderminster - Moor Street - Dorridge/Stratford on Avon Birmingham New Street - University/Camp Hill - Bromsgrove - Worcester - Hereford Right, couple of little things. We as drivers don’t sign Stratford via Dorridge. We do...
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    TOO YOUNG to be a Driver?

    I started at 18, guard at 21, and now I’m not far from passing out as a driver at 23. Yes, I did have to start at the bottom but to suggest it takes anywhere like 20 years is wrong. If you’ve got the right mindset and keep your nose clean you can get there quite quickly. Even if someone...
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    Driver Depots

    Alright mate, as another commenter has said it’s the Snow Hill Lines. So that’s as far as Leamington, Stratford via Dorridge and also via Whitlocks End, Tyseley depot and as far as Great Malvern in the opposite direction. Drivers at Leamington Spa sign all of the above, plus as far as Nuneaton...
  10. Thedispatcher

    Casual jobs on the railways?

    Try offering your services to a rail industry recruiter on LinkedIn, they’re always after engineers and I imagine you could find something to fit your circumstances. Good luck
  11. Thedispatcher

    Railway worker discounts

    The new employee rewards platform is coming soon, the old one was London Midland so now the franchise has changed so too has the benefits platform. Under LM, they offered deals with EE on mobile phone contracts, discounts on gym memberships, free flu jabs and various other things in that same...
  12. Thedispatcher

    Train Length Button

    I don’t drive locos, I’m terribly sorry.
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    Train Length Button

    Pressed what button? Don’t understand the question here.
  14. Thedispatcher

    Mess rooms from hell , places you like.

    There’s a few interesting ones round my way. The Stourbridge Guards room has the feel of a prison cell, but with a worse telly and fewer comfortable places to sit. Communal mess room at Birmingham New Street is so far underground it must be a designated nuclear shelter so obviously no phone...
  15. Thedispatcher

    ROG drivers

    Got a mate that does it and he loves it, looks like plenty of variety in routes and work. My mate books on around the Midlands, usually Leicester and drives a lot of class 37s. Hours are probably worse than passenger companies as in less sociable. Pension I don’t know. No, no travel privileges...
  16. Thedispatcher

    TOC top trumps

    Hello. Been a dispatcher and a guard for LM/WMR now a trainee Driver for the same company. Reckon we’ve got quite good Ts and Cs. Pay is good, for most grades better than any of the others such as Northern and East Mids. When it comes to travel, we’ve got free travel with Merseyrail, East...
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    What were you before you joined the railway?

    Started my proper working career as a Licensing Officer with the council, dealing with naughty pubs and taxi drivers. Fun for about six months thereafter a depressing chore. Became a Platform Assistant, loved it until I hated it. Then became a guard and loved every minute and now I’m a trainee...
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    Do GWR TMs just work long distance routes or suburban/short distance routes too?

    Reading TMs work the Basingstoke shuttles and the North Downs to Gatwick. I know a couple of Reading blokes and I’ve seen them working these trains.
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    Revenue targets for staff

    When I was a guard for a Midlands based TOC, we didn’t have targets as such but were incentivised on sales by way of commission. Didn’t issue PFs but did issue UPFNs, however they weren’t tracked and just gave us another option to help someone out. Revenue figures came out monthly and managers...
  20. Thedispatcher

    Medical - False ECG referral for Echocardiogram?

    Which company was this? Do yourself a favour and look at it as an investment. You’ll make that money back before you know it. I would definitely try and give this to the company and see what they have to say, however be prepared for them to want a consultant to look at it properly which...

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