Want to be a train driver,Northern England

weeowens

Currently recruiting:

https://firstgroup.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=5327

23/07/2012
Job Description
Trainee Train Driver - Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield

Salary:
The salary whilst training is £18,892 rising to £40,416 upon satisfactory completion of all training and passing out as a newly qualified driver. Once you fully qualify your salary will increased to £43,791 per annum.

Benefits:
31 days holiday per annum, Final salary pension scheme and free travel for you and your family on First TransPennine Express services.

paddedjohn

weeowens wrote: »

Currently recruiting:

https://firstgroup.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=5327

23/07/2012
Job Description
Trainee Train Driver - Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield

Salary:
The salary whilst training is £18,892 rising to £40,416 upon satisfactory completion of all training and passing out as a newly qualified driver. Once you fully qualify your salary will increased to £43,791 per annum.

Benefits:
31 days holiday per annum, Final salary pension scheme and free travel for you and your family on First TransPennine Express services.

do you reckon there will be an age limit? i wanted to be a train driver as a young boy and now 40 yrs on i might apply.

sho_me_da_money

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnrwM7vFn_U

mqandy

weeowens wrote: »

31 days holiday per annum, Final salary pension scheme and free travel for you and your family..

You can tell they're heavily unionised! Explains a lot of my season ticket rises...

TheSandman

mqandy wrote: »

You can tell they're heavily unionised! Explains a lot of my season ticket rises...

Agree 100%!

It really grates when they keep increasing ticket prices above inflation rates when staff are on silly money.

Up here Scotrail has bagged the monopoly and pay ticket inspectors £24K.

In my opinion that is A LOT considering the job. There are a few more safety issues but a ticket inspector in any other walk of life is a minimum wage job (11K).

With that, the tendancy to down tools at any opportunity and telling me extortionate fare increases will 'go straight back into investment' led me to start cycling in spite.

http://www.learningchoices.info/career/jobdetails.aspx?PID=nf&TOPL=26&SECL=26RA&ID=475




Edit:

After checking vacancies Scotrail pay £21,366 + final salary pension + free travel + 5% commission on tickets.

I would say £24K is easily achievable

https://firstgroup.hua.hrsmart.com/ats/js_job_details.php?reqid=5368
http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=66713

Bigmoney2

Shock horror that an employer is paying its staff a living wage.

If they were on 11k, the tax payer would end up making up the difference through tax credits and other benefits anyway.

tinshed

I remember when some operating companies were paying these guys around 13k a year back in 98/99 then there pay jumped upto 24k thanks to full privatisation. A nice little earner now. There will be lots of staff already applying for these posts, good luck if you go for it though.

tinshed

Bigmoney2 wrote: »

Shock horror that an employer is paying its staff a living wage.

If they were on 11k, the tax payer would end up making up the difference through tax credits and other benefits anyway.

What like the millions in subsidy that they pay to TOC anyway.

Livingthedream

paddedjohn wrote: »

do you reckon there will be an age limit? i wanted to be a train driver as a young boy and now 40 yrs on i might apply.

I start to drive a train when I was 41 and on my training course I wasn't the eldest, there was a lady driver who was 43.

Livingthedream

tinshed wrote: »

There will be lots of staff already applying for these posts, good luck if you go for it though.

At the present moment in time, most train companies prefer the external trainee driver than an internal applicant. On my training course of 15 drivers only 3 were ex guards/station staff.

So as an external (boil in the bag) driver the odds are in your favour.

Parva

My uncle was a train driver with TransPennine (or whatever it is these days) until recently where he had to retire through ill health. It's true that the job pays very well but be warned that train driving is not as much fun as one would think, despite the nice pay he absolutely hated the job with a passion purely because of the boredom involved.

I too did wonder whether it would be worth a change of career until I listened to his tales of utter and total boredom, even given what he was earning he was glad when he had to retire due to ill-health.