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Does anyone no of anyone who became a train driver for a U.K train company

  • 29-01-2015 8:54pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    thinking of becoming a train driver, and as I heard it's easier to get a job in the U.K than Ireland,that's why i'm asking. Freightliner is my number one choice


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  • #2
    Vic_08
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  • #3
    schemingbohemia
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    Typical, you wait ages for a thread about becoming a train driver, then two appear one after the other!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057371248


  • #4
    Losty Dublin
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    Certainly when my dad was working for Irish Rail, the failure rate for trainee drivers who were accepted for training was 80%. And that's just the guys who got into; 3 out of 4 applicants were turned down before they even called up for training. The schooling is long and extremely hard when you do get called up as the railway training school have you in on a full day 5 days a week for up to 8 months. There is a lot of mechanical, electrical and safety knowledge to take in; most drivers will tell you that the actual learning the controls to drive the train is the easy bit.

    As a career, you may as well forget it. Railway companies are full of men and women who would kill to drive only for any amount things to get in their ways. However, if you are dead set to give it a go then contact railway companies and be prepared to start at the bottom work your way up until vacancies come up.


  • #5
    corktina
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    schemingbohemia wrote: »
    Typical, you wait ages for a thread about becoming a train driver, then two appear one after the other!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057371248

    not sure what's going down here, virtually all this posters posts are "what is a job at x like?"

    maybe he needs a career guidance forum


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