Train driving careers

cossi

I would like to know how to become a train driver in ireland.Are there any train drivers online.

Drimnagh Road

You would need to become a ticketman - the job you said you really wanted to work as in Irish Rail in your previous thread - first.

holidaygirl

Actually train driving is open to any employee in Irish Rail, however depending on your role you may require additional training before you commence driver training.

It's unlikely that you will get into Irish Rail "from the outside" due to the recruitment ban in the public sector these past few years. You're probably better off looking in the UK if you really want to do it.

Judgement Day

I was going to suggest applying to the Cavan & Leitrim Railway at Dromod but judging from this 'amazing' new video uploaded to You Tube yesterday they now manage to operate without locomotives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVz6g7yDrzQ

dermo88

Up until the recession hit, there was a chance of getting into this. Unfortunately, you have to start from the bottom and work your way into it.

The train drivers are the elite in there from what I gather, and they have followed the same rigid hierarchical path done since time immemorial.

Motor and reflex skills have to be perfect. Health, Sight, Focus, Attention, Awareness of safety.....for all the flippant sarcasm I engaged in before, there is more to it than meets the eye, particularly when considering the welfare of 200-300 people or more at any one given time.

Accidents are extremelyt rare, but when they happen, a railway is an unforgiving and merciless environment.

The advice given by Karsini is correct. It is go to the UK. There are more opportunities there.

Good luck.

Vic_08

Karsini wrote: »

It's unlikely that you will get into Irish Rail "from the outside" due to the recruitment ban in the public sector these past few years. You're probably better off looking in the UK if you really want to do it.

Even without the recruitment ban it is unlikely that train driving jobs would be advertised outside CIE, that would only happen if they could not fill them internally.

There was a recent recruitment for a standby panel for drivers in IE and from what I have been told they got a huge amount of applicants.


It is a little more open in the UK however I would suggest anyone thinking of applying for such a job over there to do a lot of research first, the process is long and difficult. Train driving in the UK is well paid and there are often several thousand applicants for every position available. Similar to here those with a working background in the railway would be much more likely to succeed.

kingshankly

very difficult to get in to irish rail at the moment but in order to get in to train driving you need to be in irish rail although some have come from cie ie bus eireann but still had to take up a job in a station prior to going driving.
there has been a lot of new train drivers recently as workers within cie see it as the most secure job within the firm.

cossi

does anyone know if there would be any chance of getting a job with irish rail as a ticket man or station worker etc. thanks

Judgement Day

cossi wrote: »

does anyone know if there would be any chance of getting a job with irish rail as a ticket man or station worker etc. thanks

http://www.irishrail.ie/opportunities/job_vacancies.asp

Pineapple stu

cossi wrote: »

does anyone know if there would be any chance of getting a job with irish rail as a ticket man or station worker etc. thanks

No chance at the moment. Stick in a CV and hope for the best. You have a better chance of getting a job with an outside contractor.

Judgement Day

Pineapple stu wrote: »

No chance at the moment. Stick in a CV and hope for the best. You have a better chance of getting a job with an outside contractor.

One putting up fence posts perhaps.

cossi

What do you mean outside contracter I never knew there was outside contracter in the rail sector thanks for the replys

-Chris-

Are you looking to work with trains (i.e. it's your passion/ambition and you'd take any job to be close to them) or are you just looking to work there because it's a secure job?

cossi

yes, I have taken a good interest in trains over the last few will probably have to go to england though

Pineapple stu

Judgement Day wrote: »

One putting up fence posts perhaps.

Now that was funny

Its exactly the type of jobs that could be available if the contractor is hiring.

Judgement Day

Pineapple stu wrote: »

Now that was funny

Its exactly the type of jobs that could be available if the contractor is hiring.

Plenty of repeat business too.

cossi

Are any of ye train drivers or iarnrod eireann employees.

kingshankly

cossi wrote: »

Are any of ye train drivers or iarnrod eireann employees.

im a driver for my sins

cossi

Do you not like it.

Dub13

holidaygirl wrote: »

Actually train driving is open to any employee in Irish Rail, however depending on your role you may require additional training before you commence driver training.

Its open to any worker the CIE company's,I no a lad who went from driving with Dublin Bus to driving a train with Irish Rail.

holidaygirl

Dub13 wrote: »

Its open to any worker the CIE company's,I no a lad who went from driving with Dublin Bus to driving a train with Irish Rail.

Drimnagh Road wrote: »

You would need to become a ticketman - the job you said you really wanted to work as in Irish Rail in your previous thread - first.

My reply was aimed at the above post which was before mine, and I was merely trying to let the OP know that you didn't have to have a ticketman job first.

You are correct that positions are open to employees within the CIE group, however you will find that in reality there is not a huge amount of positions filled by employees of the different groups. As kingshankly also pointed out in his post.

kingshankly wrote: »

very difficult to get in to irish rail at the moment but in order to get in to train driving you need to be in irish rail although some have come from cie ie bus eireann but still had to take up a job in a station prior to going driving.
there has been a lot of new train drivers recently as workers within cie see it as the most secure job within the firm.