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GTR - Trainee Train Driver vacancies (07/12/20)
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No. You apply for the depot at the start of the application process. There is a small possibility that if a depot is over subscribed, and you have been successfully recruited, you may be offered a choice of another depot.
Smart.
GN are only recruiting for Hornsey and Welwyn Garden City depots AFAIK.
MeatAndTwoMeg
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For those of you that have completed the mini SCAAT, did you find test 2 harder than test 3? I expected the attention switching aspect to be difficult, but I think I did well on that. Still awaiting the results and am thinking test 2 might be my downfall. Fingers crossed for everyone in the process.
Just Hornsey.
Ah, I stand corrected!
Trainmummy
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Has anyone heard anything from thameslink recently, as in unsuccessful or successful in the first sift? Still not heard anything and wondering if anyone has been informed either way recently?
Liveforeverman
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I remember WGC being an advertised depot to apply for as I mentioned it as part of my application. Unless you have inside information
No, heard nothing from Thameslink.
Congratulations
Congratulations and well done, if you don’t mind me asking was your application from the Dec 20 recruitment campaign?
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Wow that was quick. I booked my DMI today having previously passing assessment centre in 2019. Well done
Yes, I had already passed my assessments and no, I didn’t have to resit the MMI. If you have already passed all your assessments to GTR’s standards, then all you’ll need to pass is the DMI. Good luck on your DMI! I hope you do well mate. I was told that for every 1 position as a trainee, their are 3,500 applicants vying for that 1 position.
Thanks again mate! I hope you do well and pass your DMI.
Thank you and good luck for your training course
Which depot will you be at?
TheFish
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Congratulations!
I passed the mini SCAAT in Feb and after having my first assessment day cancelled due to lack of assessors, I got an email today to book in for a day in Croydon. This is for TL, I didn’t make the sift for Southern.
Good luck to everyone else waiting for an assessment date, the recruitment team sent through tons of practice material with the booking confirmation, so plenty to keep me busy while I prepare.
Thanks mate
I hope you do well at the assessment centre. Use the wealth of knowledge on the forum to your benefit.
As long as you prepare in advance, then I’m sure you’ll pass everything.
All the best and good luck!
Congratulations! I've got an invite for the assesments but I've sat them previously. Does anyone know if GN do the DFFT?
Yes they do
Thank you, appreciate it! Best of luck with your DMI.
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If you want to eventually end up at a different depot than the one you applied for a vacancy at, you have to do two years productive work there first before you can go on the lateral transfer list to swap depots.
Bedford is the depot with the highest number waiting to transfer there, with almost 50. Basically, that driver who's bottom of the list is going to have to wait for about half the depot to retire or die before they get there.
Peterborough is second with nearly 25 (so about a third of the depot need to die or retire before the bottom of the list gets there)
Luton is popular at just under twenty.
Cambridge has almost 15 on it's waiting list, but has about 90 drivers currently, so proportionally isn't as bad.
Kings Cross is a small depot now that most drivers were moved to the new traincrew depot at Hornsey. Theres only about 36 drivers for GTR at Kings Cross now, making it the same size depot as King Lynn. Both Kings Cross and Kings Lynn have a similar sized waiting list at 6-8 but that's proportionally longer than Cambridge's, although they tend to have a higher proportion of older drivers which might make a vacancy come around more quickly.
The other depot's waiting lists aren't too bad with single figures currently
Having said all that, if someone retires at Kings Lynn, a person currently at Cambridge will fill the vacancy, and a person from Welwyn will fill that one, and someone from Hornsey will move into that one. So there's a whole chain reaction from one person retiring.
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interesting info. Do drivers transfer between TL and GN depots then ? I know Southern is a whole different thing but just out of curiosity.
Yes as they are on the same conditions. Southern might as well be a seperate entity ! I know of a driver going from TL to GN