Because any muppet can drive a truck.Mind you any muppet can drive a train.
Hardly Phd work is it but you aint got a lot of Poles with a train licence.
gazza1970:
I gave up driving trucks 10 yrs ago to take a job driving trains, my basic is £56000 for 35hrs a wk .
You made a great move! That’s a great salary for the hours, some qualified people don’t earn that for all their studies.
The title of this thread is Train drivers wages £45,550 per yr, that’s still a very good salary, there will be hardly any truck driver on this site that earns that, unless you are in a very niche market.
Train driving jobs are one of the hardest jobs to get and it’s also one of the fastest jobs to lose when you [zb]up,
10 years ago I was one of the lucky ones , out of 1500 people who applied only 30 of us got jobs,
Bking:
Mind you any muppet can drive a train.
Hardly Phd wok is it
Really? Is that a fact!
I take it you’ve been a train driver on the footplate then?
You know the job inside out?
Man, you don’t half talk some complete and utter crap on here. Why don’t you take up knitting or summin. You wouldn’t know where to ■■■■■■ begin!
Ive been in the rail industry for just coming up to 20 years, Im not a train driver but ive been in a fair few driving cabs in my time, what these guys know, their skills in train handling alone and their knowledge alone would make your sad little head spin.
If you really think that stopping a 2000 ton coal train on the right side of a red signal from 60 mph in the pitch dark on a wet rail on a falling grade is a piece of ■■■■■ then you really are in cloud cuckoo land 
Oh christ. Don’t argue with Bking, he’s a rather unintelligent troll. Ignore him and he’ll go away, otherwise we’ll be here for days.
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!
Messrs Bob Crowe and the RMT…lot to be said for unions and the power they can wield 
Just for you gembo ,here is photo copy of Decembers payslip , I’ve circled my basic pay £56278 and what week it was 40,
We are paid every 4wks meaning we get paid 13months a year ,
Fair bloody play chap, sorry, I honestly didn’t realise there was a current TOC salary that high.
You on freight?
12k in tax payments alone by the end of the year 
that will take the sting out of when I look at my tax deductions.
Harry Monk:
I think train drivers deserve every penny they get, how they manage to balance a great big long train like that on those skinny little rails is awesome, even more so when they have to steer it round a corner.
Just as an aside on this.
I work for a rail maintainance firm who have Road Rail volvo’s, its very weird the first time you go down track in rail mode and your pulling on the steering wheel as the track turns (steer wheels are locked in a straight ahead mode to keep you in gauge when on track) 
Got to admit to still trying it occasionally towards the end of a long shift
I wouldn’t like their job though, its hard enough to get 26t of truck to move/stop on slippery rails never mind a full train. But that said we’re still paid a good amount for what we do on the overhead maintainance
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.
dont know about that,my bruv is a train operator on the central line he does about 6 to 7 hrs a day leaves about 2 in the afternoon and is back home by ten in the evening,he has actually admitted to me that he is one of the laziest people around and all for as stated £45,000 a year
Gembo:
Bking:
Mind you any muppet can drive a train.
Hardly Phd wok is itReally? Is that a fact!
I take it you’ve been a train driver on the footplate then?
You know the job inside out?
Man, you don’t half talk some complete and utter crap on here. Why don’t you take up knitting or summin. You wouldn’t know where to [zb] begin!
Ive been in the rail industry for just coming up to 20 years, Im not a train driver but ive been in a fair few driving cabs in my time, what these guys know, their skills in train handling alone and their knowledge alone would make your sad little head spin.
If you really think that stopping a 2000 ton coal train on the right side of a red signal from 60 mph in the pitch dark on a wet rail on a falling grade is a piece of ■■■■, then you really are in cloud cuckoo land :lol:
Do you like…apply the brake? Don’t sound that hard? 
Montmerency:
Gembo:
Bking:
Mind you any muppet can drive a train.
Hardly Phd wok is itReally? Is that a fact!
I take it you’ve been a train driver on the footplate then?
You know the job inside out?
Man, you don’t half talk some complete and utter crap on here. Why don’t you take up knitting or summin. You wouldn’t know where to [zb] begin!
Ive been in the rail industry for just coming up to 20 years, Im not a train driver but ive been in a fair few driving cabs in my time, what these guys know, their skills in train handling alone and their knowledge alone would make your sad little head spin.
If you really think that stopping a 2000 ton coal train on the right side of a red signal from 60 mph in the pitch dark on a wet rail on a falling grade is a piece of ■■■■, then you really are in cloud cuckoo land :lol:Do you like…apply the brake? Don’t sound that hard?
What, like you do in a car and simply pull up in 50 feet?
Well.In a truck or car if you want to stop you apply the brake,how hard is that? Do train drivers do something extra? 
Eastern Europian still not work for train drivers ,.what about Romanian
Montmerency:
Well.In a truck or car if you want to stop you apply the brake,how hard is that? Do train drivers do something extra?
If you don’t know, you never will… 
Truckulent:
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.
I AGREE, with all 3 replies.
One of the problems with this job is those that look upon it as some kind of full time hobby, 
. You know the ones , the pricks that are happy and willing to work for next to ■■■■ all… as long as they can pose about all week in a fancy motor . That is up to them if they are that ■■■■■■■ thick, but the problem is the effect that they have on us that are in it to make a living, and have to work for the crap wages that these knobs don’t really care about.
My mate went for a train driver’s job with Connex South-Eastern but he failed because he was late for the interview… because the Connex Dover-Charing Cross train broke down while he was a passenger on it. And no matter how many times he explained this to Connex, they just weren’t interested.
Henrys cat:
Harry Monk:
I think train drivers deserve every penny they get, how they manage to balance a great big long train like that on those skinny little rails is awesome, even more so when they have to steer it round a corner.Just as an aside on this.
I work for a rail maintainance firm who have Road Rail volvo’s, its very weird the first time you go down track in rail mode and your pulling on the steering wheel as the track turns (steer wheels are locked in a straight ahead mode to keep you in gauge when on track)
Got to admit to still trying it occasionally towards the end of a long shift
I wouldn’t like their job though, its hard enough to get 26t of truck to move/stop on slippery rails never mind a full train. But that said we’re still paid a good amount for what we do on the overhead maintenance
When you first touch the wires, even though you are told its switched off, do you still hold your breath?
Mustn’t forget the “free rail travel for you and your family” perk that goes with it too… Does that include the commute across London if someone like me from Kent had a job that involved them going into somewhere like Stonebridge Park? 