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md1987:
truckerjimbo:
md1987:
I’d lifreat this but don’t think I’m bright enough. Got a steam train driving day booked for my birthday on east lancs railway lol.
Anyone know what kind of hours train drivers work in comparison to hgv drivers?35 hour standard week averaged over the year.
Enjoy your steam train drive mate.
Thanks. Maybe a daft question but are there any driving time regulations aswell? Say a train from London to Glasgow, would that keep the same driver all the way or change half way and he take another train back?
Driver change on route. For freight on that route there could be up to 4 different driver changes. You would either work a train back to your depot or go on passenger service and/or taxis/van etc.
Alot of freight diagrams (jobs) are only one way.
Cheers! 
There are 1000’s of applications for these jobs and you ideally have to be within walking distance of a depot to get a job. Only then to be put in a talent pool and wait to get a job after maybe two years.
Who doesn’t want 50+k a year for 35 hours work.
Truck driving is a harder job and can go wrong very quickly but no one fights for their worth otherwise we would be the same as them in terms of pay.
A drivers career follows them.
If they have any incidents, these are on their file until they stop driving trains so if they change employer, the new employer knows the drivers past history.
AdamST205:
Who doesn’t want 50+k a year for 35 hours work..
In the spirit of trucknetuk. I wouldn’t get out of bed for that money drive. 
md1987:
truckerjimbo:
md1987:
I’d like a go at this but don’t think I’m bright enough. Got a steam train driving day booked for my birthday on east lancs railway lol.
Anyone know what kind of hours train drivers work in comparison to hgv drivers?35 hour standard week averaged over the year.
Enjoy your steam train drive mate.
Thanks. Maybe a daft question but are there any driving time regulations aswell? Say a train from London to Glasgow, would that keep the same driver all the way or change half way and he take another train back?
Very much so. They are often governed not so much by time available, rather by whether the driver can “sign the road”; that is to say that he has been properly familiarised with that particular section of railway. If he hasn’t, he can’t drive a train on it without being under supervision by a pilotman, no exceptions. You tend to find in practice nowadays that most drivers only go as far as they can return to home base on completion of their shift; I’m given to understand that “lodging turns”, what we would call a night out, are very rare indeed these days.
My best friend was a driver in the very last days of steam, finishing on steam at Nine Elms where he was driving West Country Pacifics from Waterloo to Southampton. He was one of the very small coterie of drivers who “followed the steam” until it finally finished in 1968; he left the railway in the early 1970’s, trained a a civil engineer and went on to be a senior manager in the railway contracting business. He tells me that in the 1960’s, if you were prepared to put the hours in and were canny with what jobs you accepted, you could make an absolute fortune by the standards of the day where manual work was concerned; it’s largely down to the railway companies buying back the overtime and mileage payments that a train driver’s salary is so high compared to ours.
The shift patterns were bloody awful, though, and often still are.
A train driver job popped up for me today, probably has lower entry requirements.
Weekend working an the driver is also responsible for collecting fares, doesn’t sound like a unionised workforce to me,
Carryfast:
Obviously no need to apply for anyone who prefers working as a warehouse or building site labourer.
Wouldn’t know, I’ve never got remotely close to doing either of those things in any job I’ve had - driving or not.
njl:
A train driver job popped up for me today, probably has lower entry requirements.Weekend working an the driver is also responsible for collecting fares, doesn’t sound like a unionised workforce to me,
Lmao