Train driver jobs

[zrx1200r]

Hello, this may not be the right thread, but I recently had to retire on medical grounds from being a freight train driver for a Carlisle company which operated trains for a well known supermarket chain and carried nuclear waste. Basic £60 to £70k and easy to make £100k if you put in the hours. They treated me really well when I was sick, a full year on full pay and 4 months severence pay. Just a thought.
Best regards, Matt.
P.S could do with a part time job in Inverness, if anyone has any suggestions. £100k to P.I.P and E.E.S.A of £1000 month makes you smell the reallity.

[KRviator]

I've been driving freight trains in Australia for nearly 20 years after giving away flying as for a career. The (freight) companies pay pretty well, I have a great roster, and I don't have to deal with airport security every day just to get to work. Best thing I ever did! Can't imagine actually having to work for a living.

[SOPS]

6 years for me… however driving passenger trains. Good money, great rosters, best place I have ever worked. Wish I had done it years ago.

[zrx1200r]

Me too, spent years in crappy jobs and at 38 I stumbled across an ad for train drivers. Can't be that hard I thought, green for go, red for stop. 9 months at Doncaster learning rules and regs then 6 months being mentored. You can't believe the crap you need to know but will never use, PPL was a scoosh by comparison. Enjoyed my time entirely, don't half miss the salary tho. Anyone got a part time job going, I'm bored out my skull.
Many thanks,
Matt

[realECMLdriver]

Been driving trains at LNER for a while. Good pay and well looked after, but the new fleet has eliminated a lot of the enjoyment for me. Thank god for the retained 225 sets! Watching what happened to a lot of pilots during covid made me believe I'm done with the idea of applying to a flying college. Fast forward a couple of years and I'm working towards my PPL with a view to modular training. If a good airline scheme opens in the near future, and I pass their selection, then I'd be off like a shot.

[ToCatLady]

Could you perhaps move this to the PTDRUNE forum please?

[Chris the Robot]

Originally Posted by realECMLdriver

If a good airline scheme opens in the near future, and I pass their selection, then I'd be off like a shot.

There's the fully-funded TUI programme which is the best of the bunch at the moment but your basic salary for the first four years of flying the line would be less than that of an LNER trainee doing practical handling/core routes with a DI.

I would have put in for it had I not been in the process of moving from driving at a suburban DOO TOC to a guarded intercity operator.

The big risk though is that if you're out of a train cab for 12 months or more and the airline programme doesn't work out, you end up with no easy way back to the trains. Equally, if you go down the modular route, is an airline going to wait for your notice period, which I believe is usually 3 months?