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Irish Rail Drivers

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  • #32
    corktina
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    NIR is in the UK....


  • #33
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    Hilly Bill wrote: »
    They apply to become train drivers or get drafted to fill a gap somewhere else. Gatekeeping is the entry level job and not much uptake on the post from within.

    I was thinking of all those fun times they have sitting in portacabins in the depths of the night :pac:


  • #34
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    corktina wrote: »
    NIR is in the UK....

    NIR is not covered under the normal UK railway legislation; indeed it wasn't covered by any until a few years ago when a seperate act of Westminister was hastily drawn up to cover it. It has it's own recruitment and HR policies and like Irish Rail it doesn't recruit drivers from the general public. The NIR rulebook is shared with Irish Rail but as two seperate companies they have different driver and guard rosters. Both companies supply train crews for the Enterprise; these are rostered on a basis of both Irish Rail and NIR crews working on specific trips who are passed out to work to and from each destination on the line.

    As for trying the Luas, it has only openly invited applications for drivers maybe twice in 12 years, once being in 2002 when it had no choice but to take on new drivers. It's unlikely to take on new drivers again until the new extension is ready for testing; that's a couple of years away.


  • #35
    GBOA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 131 ✭✭GBOA


    NIR has run a couple of competitions for conductors over the last year or so which have resulted in merit lists for positions as they become available. As I understand it, people are taken off the list as vacancies arise, based on location preference stated by successful candidates at the time.


  • #36
    Infini
    Registered Users Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    Atm theres little chance at getting in as theyre trying to gut the staff in the place (in some cases they've taken too many staff out of places they shouldnt have) but I would keep an eye out they might have to recruit some people eventually as they're finding out now that they've cut too much in some places.


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