New Measurement Train Drivers

[jfowkes]

Hopefully an easy question to answer. Who drives the NMT? Going all over the country, there can't be drivers that have committed all that route knowledge to memory, so there must be local drivers that swap out at various points.
Are they NR employees or contractors? How does scheduling work? Do they do other driving jobs or is the NMT "full time" enough to keep them solely employed doing that?

Feel free to discuss around the topic in any interesting ways.

Mods: feel free to move to a more appropriate forum if you like. Wasn't sure what it fitted best in.

 

[Efini92]

It was colas drivers. I think it went out to tender not long ago, I imagine the same drivers will just be TUPE’d across.

 

[whoosh]

Colas Infrastructure Monitoring. A lot of their drivers are based at Derby but many book on from home and are scattered around the country. They also do rail grinding trains, and other test trains.

They used to be employed by DB Infrastructure and before that Serco.

 

[Zontar]

Any colas drivers on here?

 

[Railworker101]

There's no such link soley for the NMT.

It's all grouped under the Colas Rail Infrastructure Monitoring Contract. Currently, drivers will also drive ultrasonic test trains, PLPR test trains and more recently depending on location and routes signed the VIU (class 153).

They may on occasion conduct grinder trains and indeed freight/ballast trains over some of the less well trodden ground but this is once in a blue moon.

 

[Zontar]

There's no such link soley for the NMT.

It's all grouped under the Colas Rail Infrastructure Monitoring Contract. Currently, drivers will also drive ultrasonic test trains, PLPR test trains and more recently depending on location and routes signed the VIU (class 153).

They may on occasion conduct grinder trains and indeed freight/ballast trains over some of the less well trodden ground but this is once in a blue moon.

Is there a collective network rail link then? Just wondering how they plan the work and the drivers their life.

 

[Eebbs1912]

Colas iIM do try the driving, loram do the maintenance at the edu in derby