Where to apply for train licence in Ireland

adamcullen8

I would like to apply for a train driver licence,I looked up varous moto licence websites but they dont list trains, Can anyone please help me.

nim1bdeh38l2cw

Try Airport Driving School, they do trains - and planes - but you'll have to call and ask.

You'll need to have your own train though...

adamcullen8

Abigail Curved Octogenarian wrote: »

Try Airport Driving School, they do trains - and planes - but you'll have to call and ask.

You'll need to have your own train though...

Sorry that wasnt any help I checked it and nothing came back,Do you know of anywhere else?

tabby aspreme

Ask the owner of the train you want to drive, they will tell you where to get the license.

PirateShampoo

Guy has dream, guy gets ridiculed.

MascotDec85

Try Ianrod Eireann. They’ve lots of trains

colm_mcm

MascotDec85 wrote: »

Try Ianrod Eireann. They’ve lots of trains

It’s not that easy though is it? I thought it was a closed shop unless your family was already driving trains or you’ve worked in the yards for a certain length of time?

TheBoyConor

You can't just apply for a job to drive a train and you can't just apply randomly for a train license if they even exist.

Irish Rail is a closed shop more or less and to become a driver you have to start at the bottom working on the platforms and doing crap jobs around the station for a good few years before you could even apply to be a driver. And even to get a job on the platforms it's all about who you know. Most people in Irish Rail and certainly 99% of all the drivers got their jobs because they have family or other Close connections with in Irish Rail.

you can't just go in and do a theory test and apply for a licence like you would with a car and then get a job as a driver. It doesn't work like that.

tabby aspreme

OP, is it a train or a tram you have an interest in driving.

adamcullen8

tabby aspreme wrote: »

OP, is it a train or a tram you have an interest in driving.

Train

punisher5112

There is no such thing as it op.

You would need to work for Irish rail or northern rail etc.

You need to apply to them or check out Luas because that may well be closest you will get.

Spanish Eyes

I don't know much about train driving, but I understand that becoming a train driver in Irish Rail's monopoly is not easy. I understand it's grandfathers, sons, grandsons and so on. Never heard of a female train driver here, but that's another story!

OP maybe make enquiries in the UK. Rail is privatised over there, so there may be more options. Worth a shot. Look up all the train companies and start from there.

Best of luck.

TheBoyConor

See my previous post. You can't apply for train driving jobs. It's not like they are advertised in the papers or on job sites.
Irish Rail is a closed shop. Unless you have a father, uncle or brother or a very well connected friend in Irish Rail your chances of getting a train driver job are basically zero.
And even if you did, you might have to spend 10 or 15 years on the platforms, ticket checking or in signalling before you'd be have an opportunity to get driving.

Britain really is the only option for the op. Ireland is a non runner. If you have to ask on boards how to become a train driver that means you have no connections and you have zero chance.

myshirt

^^^^^^^^^

+1 on that

Dravokivich

Are you looking for work or hobbyist? There's a few places like stradbally that will take on volunteers. And a few people they've certified from that to drive their steam/diesel trains. Dunno how much use it'd be for work. But theirs people in the industry that get involved with those groups.

Wishbone Ash

You'd be better asking over in the Commuting and Transport Forum.

You might get some assistance in this thread:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057456881

AFAIK - it's easier to get in if you get another job with Irish Rail initially.

nim1bdeh38l2cw

adamcullen8 wrote: »

Sorry that wasnt any help I checked it and nothing came back,Do you know of anywhere else?

They don't advertise it online, did you call and ask them?

TheBoyConor

It's really a waste of time asking tbh. Irish Rail is well known for being a very closed shop.
If they gave a driver job to a complete outside the guys who are there trying to get their sons, nephews and grandsons in as drivers would cause uproar over it if they found out an outsider got in ahead of their son etc. So realistically what op wants is never gonna happen.

Gotta get over to Britain if you wanna drive a train. The industry is just too small here. All the drivers probably know eachother very very well. They are not going to accept an outsider.

Talking about is flogging a dead horse lads, seriously.

biko

When you've shoveled a million tons of coal
Some ten or twelve years later
And your only dream is of raising steam
Then they hand to you your drivers papers
The iron road is a hard road and the work is never ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfxLF97IdeE

stecleary

as others have said IR is a closed shop, how ever something that might help you get a foot in the door
http://www.irishrail.ie/about-us/career-opportunities

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Irish rail won't advertise publicly because there's enough interest internally withing Irish rail itself (ground staff looking to drive etc.)

And also they do advertise in the C.I.E group of companies

A batch of drivers were talking from both Dublin bus and bus Eireann over a year ago for train driving directly / not platform , ticketing jobs. They've gone straight into training for driving trains

Also there are female train drivers , not many but yes they are there

It's not a case of who you know anymore

It's a case a company employing internally before external for a position which is fair to give internal employees priority.

If they don't fill train driver positions internally they will advertise publicly but unfortunately for all you peasants I don't think that'll happen !