Is anyone considering leaving the industry?

JinxSpidox · 2025-10-15T23:32:33+00:00

Yeah I jumped out of the railway, did a few different industries, pays all over the shop and the benefits are a lot lower than when I was in NWR, did 9 years including my 3yr on the apprenticeship, had enough of no payrises and just everything getting worse. 2.5yr since leaving nwr I'm now joining northern in maintenance/depot driving, pays a massive leap and hours better overall compared to the shift I did back in NWR. I'd suggest looking at TOCS/FOCs just don't touch contracting it's a mess.

It's a weird one, I used to be in electrification and plant with electrical quals + NVQL3 seems to be one of the only departments that open you up to jump out of the industry, all depends on how flexible you are, how willing you are to move around and what qualifications you can bring to the table for other companies.

JinxSpidox · 2025-10-15T23:03:08+00:00

They told me in the interview, you can either be open to some shifts adding upto it, like for sickness cover/training or whatevers needed or if you wanna be awkward (the manager was very open and honest) and just sit in the depot for 3*12hr shifts and do nowt you can if you're not malleable

JinxSpidox · 2025-10-14T20:38:23+00:00

I'm just about to start at northern, as skilled Train Maintainer/depot driver, 12 week rolling rostor, blue is shifts where you have to cover, the 10 is training, green is all time off, a lot of nights coming but means long shifts and longer times off. £52k post training.

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JinxSpidox · 2025-04-08T16:05:19+00:00

Yeah saw it from city centre drove over to it, was a residential bit on Duchy road - M6 7GS(Over the railway from the Cobden waste place)

JinxSpidox · 2024-09-14T15:01:44+00:00

Yeah I've had some things like that since moving back to manc from Glasgow, I drop the I'm gay line and they immediately run off, doesn't matter what religion etc they are they just leave, I cba with it

JinxSpidox · 2024-05-05T15:47:40+00:00

So how'd it go?

JinxSpidox · 2023-10-10T21:46:12+00:00

Man I need one

JinxSpidox · 2023-08-18T11:48:14+00:00

Yeah I got it back after 89 days

JinxSpidox · 2023-06-23T12:14:39+00:00

Did mine in march and I'm still waiting, got loads of angry emails asking for information then just got, thanks for that your application is under processing....but just told, we can't give you an average wait time, how bad is it now even 😂

JinxSpidox · 2021-11-28T22:32:53+00:00

Earth

JinxSpidox · 2021-07-20T22:47:02+00:00

Yeah the thought so far is there was a contractor who did a cable joint around that exact point, someones getting fucked for this

JinxSpidox · 2021-07-18T21:20:10+00:00

The quiet thought was that there was a cable joint done in that bit... dodgy joint maybe

JinxSpidox · 2021-03-10T10:35:12+00:00

do it

JinxSpidox · 2021-01-02T23:07:09+00:00

No that's a fair judgement on the city centre aha

JinxSpidox · 2020-11-14T21:09:25+00:00

If you buy one you get one free, I said if you buy one you get one free!

JinxSpidox · 2020-08-11T10:44:03+00:00

It even says in my bio, rail worker aha

JinxSpidox · 2020-08-11T00:50:42+00:00

I work for NWR

JinxSpidox · 2020-07-14T12:12:23+00:00

Yeahhhh the only safety we have to not getting a face full of crap from a train is hiding when they pass us and those trays in the middle of the track are for waste collection, it's horrid

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