Why is that? Pilots on double that.For a train driver.?London tube drivers earn more than that.
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Dav1d:
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toby1234abc:
Why is that? Pilots on double that.For a train driver.?London tube drivers earn more than that.
Perhaps it’s because they stick together for the cause!
weeto:
toby1234abc:
Why is that? Pilots on double that.For a train driver.?London tube drivers earn more than that.Perhaps it’s because they stick together for the cause!
… and don’t have a macho bs culture about not being a proper train driver unless you work a seventy hour week.
I wonder if they all wish they were driving steam trains like in the old days too.
Rhythm Thief:
weeto:
toby1234abc:
Why is that? Pilots on double that.For a train driver.?London tube drivers earn more than that.Perhaps it’s because they stick together for the cause!
… and don’t have a macho bs culture about not being a proper train driver unless you work a seventy hour week.
I think that is quite possibly the case,good pay and conditions so I hear.
Saw an advert for trainee freight train drivers the other week I showed it to a bloke who always moans about his wage and said here go for this,did he do anything about it? No.
My mates dad used to drive foe GNER years ago and was on a good salary and pension.
If some truck drivers thought of something other than themselves for a minute we could of possibly of had the same instead of how transport has gone now.
yorkshire terrier:
I think that is quite possibly the case,good pay and conditions so I hear.
Saw an advert for trainee freight train drivers the other week I showed it to a bloke who always moans about his wage and said here go for this,did he do anything about it? No.
Where was that? I’d love to drive freight trains.
Rhythm Thief:
weeto:
toby1234abc:
Why is that? Pilots on double that.For a train driver.?London tube drivers earn more than that.Perhaps it’s because they stick together for the cause!
… and don’t have a macho bs culture about not being a proper train driver unless you work a seventy hour week.
Yup ^^^^
Never seen a train driver with tasselled curtains and chrome wheel trims. Nor with a lot of extra LED lights everywhere in various colours (often illegal), that serve no purpose whatsoever.
In short, they’ve got their priorities much better sorted than truck drivers. 
Rhythm Thief:
yorkshire terrier:
I think that is quite possibly the case,good pay and conditions so I hear.
Saw an advert for trainee freight train drivers the other week I showed it to a bloke who always moans about his wage and said here go for this,did he do anything about it? No.Where was that? I’d love to drive freight trains.
Was on the freightliner website
I dont earn that.
Thomas the Tank.
Think you’ll find that a pilot in the right hand seat is most certainly not on 90k a year…
Saaamon:
Think you’ll find that a pilot in the right hand seat is most certainly not on 90k a year…
This ^^^^^
Lucky if they’re on 35K if they’re a Junior First Officer.
And you can’t get lost, wee up the wheels, overtake because you are half a mile an hour quicker than the driver in the nearside lane…
BA pay about £11,000 a year on a pilot cadet training scheme.To learn sectors and routes with the man on the left with experience.
Start out on a Boeing 737.No peekaboo curtains allowed in the cockpit.
If i was doing it,i would do cargo for Fed Ex or DHL.
They go to interesting places and no moody passengers.The RAF would use them to disaster zones around the world for flooding and food aid.
I quit the truck industry last year and made the move to driving trains. This is something that has been in my head since being a teenager. Starting September was the end of almost 21 months of trying to get into the industry.
Take it how you desire but my trainer over the last 3 months has said, we don’t earn the money for the easy days when life is peachy, we earn the money when the brown smelly stuff hits the fan. Do you want someone at the front end who can’t deal with a situation or do you want someone that does the right thing and gets a job done. This was exactly my type of attitude where I worked before except now it will be a vehicle with maybe 1000 people on board.
As I sit here right now, I have at least another 6 to 9 months of training to go. My brain feels like I reached saturation point with everything I have to learn and the rules I have to remember. 15 reasons for this, 10 reasons somewhere else, another 10 reasons for the other thing, 40 stations to learn every single stopping point for whatever combo today I am driving, speeds at every location I am at, speeds at every single crossover point. There is more to that list but that will do for now.
I am so grateful for where I am right now, and everything I done in life and career has brought to this point. It is an amazing opportunity to be here now but damm this I think is actually the hardest thing I have ever done.
Would I ever driver a truck again? If I had to , bills need to be paid and that is why I work hard at the best job I can do. Would I rather be an airline pilot? Damm straight I would !!!
P.S. If you get ‘offered’ a route that you are not allowed to take then expect a chat with management with no tea or biscuits, not quite lost but railway equilvalent
I’ve often wondered what the “crisis management” thing to do for a train driver is when the following situations occur:
(1) A coupling fails, and you leave half your coaches standing at the platform when pulling out
(2) The points were set incorrectly, and the Victoria to Brighton train you were driving is now on it’s way to Tattenham Corner (dead end)
(3) You break down, and it’s a friday night last run you’re on…
Saaamon:
Think you’ll find that a pilot in the right hand seat is most certainly not on 90k a year…
So if you know what pilots earn, how much is a guy sat in the left-hand seat of a BA 747 on, then?
Winseer:
I’ve often wondered what the “crisis management” thing to do for a train driver is when the following situations occur:(1) A coupling fails, and you leave half your coaches standing at the platform when pulling out
(2) The points were set incorrectly, and the Victoria to Brighton train you were driving is now on it’s way to Tattenham Corner (dead end)
(3) You break down, and it’s a friday night last run you’re on…
#1, You wont go anywhere because as soon as the brake pipe parts it dumps all the air and the brakes come on.
#2, Being “wrong routed” should be noticed by the driver and he’ll stop to speak to the signaller who controls that section pronto. Its rare for it to happen. Theres’ a lot of rules governing ‘propelling’ (reverse) movements though, you cant just ‘back it up’!
#3, You’l go through the rules to “protect your train” / protect the line and require assistance. Wether that’s a man in a van with some tools or another train, all depends.
Oh, the thread title is also a bit on the low side, Arriva Cross Country drivers are on 52K for a 35 hour, 4 day week.